Election of New Warden
New College is delighted to announce that Sir Robin Niblett KCMG has been elected to succeed Miles Young as Warden of New College. Sir Robin will take up the post in September 2026.
Until 2022, Sir Robin was Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House, and prior to this was Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC.
Currently, he is the Director of Ledwell Advisory and a member of the International Advisory Board of Brown Advisory, the US investment firm. He is a Distinguished Fellow of both Chatham House and the Asia Society Policy Institute and a Senior Adviser with CSIS. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
He has previously held policy advisory positions with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, and chaired the 2014 NATO Experts Group.
A leading expert on the relations between Europe, the US, and Asia, he is the author most recently of The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century, which was published by Atlantic Books in 2024.
In 2022, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael & St George for services to international relations and British foreign policy. He read Modern Languages (French and German) at New College as an undergraduate and returned there for an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations.
The Sub-Warden of New College, Volker Halbach, who chaired the election process, writes:
The members of the Governing Body of New College are delighted that Robin has agreed to become the next Warden of New College. The experience from his distinguished and highly successful career and his engaging and warm personality impressed the fellows of New College, who elected him from an extremely strong field of candidates. The College Â鶹app looks forward to welcoming Robin.
Sir Robin adds:
I am excited to join New College as its next Warden and look forward to working with the Governing Body to build on Miles Young’s important legacy. Independent institutions of learning and research play an essential role at this time of profound societal, political, technological and economic change. By drawing on the interdisciplinary strengths of the University of Oxford and embodying its globally recognised reputation for academic excellence, the students and fellows of New College can contribute to a positive future.
