Professor Sir Clive Booth
Doctor of the University (HonDUniv)
Year conferred: 2000
Professor Sir Clive Booth has a science degree from Cambridge and a doctorate in public finance from the University of California, Berkeley. His early career was in the Department of Education and Science, including a spell as Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State.
He later held posts in Plymouth Polytechnic, HM Inspectorate of Schools and Oxford Polytechnic. He was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University from 1992 to 1997.
His past public appointments include chairing Centrex, the national police training body, the Teacher Training Agency, the Nurses Pay Review Body and serving as deputy chair of the South East England Development Agency. He has been a senior education adviser to the World Bank, British Council and the Home Office.
Since 2004 he has been Chair of the Big Lottery Fund. He is also working with the National Offender Management Service on reducing re-offending. He is an editorial board member of the Oxford Review of Education.
He struggles with an allotment, plays indifferent bridge and takes consolation in opera.
