Sir Tim Hitchens is President of Wolfson College, Oxford. He is also a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner and Chairman of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Before coming to the University of Oxford, Sir Hitchens was the Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Summit Unit. He also served as the Director-General, Economic and Consular at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Sir Hitchens is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and has extensive experience in his more than thirty years as a diplomat, which have taken him to parts of the world as diverse as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and France. He has spent three years as Foreign and Commonwealth Office director for Africa. Most recently, between 2012 and 2016, Sir Hitchens was the British Ambassador in Japan. He will be discussing security in East Asia during the seminar.