Visiting Gresham Professor

Visiting Professors at Gresham College, London, give free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. The first visiting professors were appointed in 2000.

Gwen Adshead delivering a Gresham College lecture in 2015

List of Visiting Gresham Professors

	Name	Subject	Started
1	Baroness Warnock of Weeke	Rhetoric	2000
2	Abdullah Ibrahim[1]	Music	2000
3	Robin Wilson[2]	History of Mathematics	2001
4	Richard Langham Smith[3]	Music	2003
5	Allan Chapman FRAS[4]	History of Science	2003
6	Raj Persaud[5]	Psychiatry	2004
7	Sir Richard J. Evans FRSL FBA[6]	History	2008
8	Sir Vernon Bogdanor CBE FBA FRSA[7]	Political History	2008
9	Glenn D. Wilson[8]	Psychology	2009
10	Simon Thurley CBE[9]	The Built Environment	2009
11	Tony Mann[10]	Computing Mathematics	2012
12	Steve Jones FRS[11]	Genetics	2013
13	Sir Christopher Whitty KCB FRCP FRS[12]	Public Health	2013
14	Lynda Nead FBA[13]	History of Art	2013
15	Jane Caplan[14]	History	2013
16	Helga Drummond[15]	Business	2014
17	Gwen Adshead[16]	Psychiatry	2014
18	Ian Christie FBA[17]	History of Film and Media	2017
19	Craig Clunas[18]	Chinese Art	2017
20	Edith Hall[19]	Classics	2017
21	Roger Kneebone[20]	Medical Education	2018
22	Yorick Wilks[21]	Artificial Intelligence	2018
23	The Revd Canon Richard Burridge[22]	Ethics and Theology	2018
24	Sir Stephen Sparks CBE FRS[23]	Geology	2018
25	Jeremy Summerly[24]	Music History	2019
26	Jim Endersby[25]	History of Science	2019
27	Roberto Trotta[26]	Cosmology	2019
28	Thomas Grant KC[27]	Politics and Law	2020
29	John Mullan[28]	English Literature	2020
30	Martin Daunton[29]	Economic History	2020
31	Imogen Goold[30]	Medical Law	2021
32	Sir Christopher Whitty KCB FRCP FRS[12]	Public Health	2022
33	Ian Mudway[31]	Environmental Health	2022
34	Dominic Broomfield-McHugh[32]	Film and Theatre Music	2023