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Welcome to the website of the Oxford Pastorate. Our mission is to serve the postgraduate student community in Oxford.
The Pastorate Chaplains are always available to meet with graduate students whatever tradition, denomination or religion they belong to, and whether or not they think of themselves as religious. You can read about the Chaplains' team and find their contact details here.
Please consult the 'Oxford Graduate Calendar' to see some of the Christian events that are taking place for Oxford postgraduates this week.
Trinity Term 2012: Veritas Forum
"We seem to be addicted to interest-bearing debt. Students, house-buyers, consumers, companies, countries. We all use it. But what does it do to us? And could we live without it? This year’s Veritas Forum will explore how the teaching of Jesus Christ can help diagnose our problems with debt, and perhaps offer a radical solution."
Speakers include:
Paul Mills previously worked for 13 years the UK Treasury as a senior policy adviser on financial markets and regulatory policy, followed by a stint for the IMF in Washington DC. He now lives in London, providing daily advice and commentary on the sovereign crisis and banking risks. Paul’s PhD thesis at Cambridge covered the critiques of debt finance through the history economic thought as well as Islamic and modern banking theory. Alongside his day job he speaks and writes regularly on the application of the Bible to personal and public finance, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Jubilee Centre, a Christian think-tank.
Jenny Corbett is a Reader in the Economy of Japan at the University of Oxford and non-executive director of the Canberra- based credit union, Service One Members Banking. She is also Executive Director, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Australian National University. Jenny received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the application of recent developments in the analysis of banking crises and of the links between financial systems and corporate governance to understanding the economic problems of Japan. She has acted as a consultant to the OECD, Japan’s Financial Services Agency and the Asian Development Bank Institute on financial reform and corporate governance.
Colin Mayer is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and of St Anne’s College, Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He is an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He was the first professor at the Saïd Business School in 1994 and the Peter Moores Dean of the Business School between 2006 and 2011. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and assisted in establishing the prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the European Corporate Governance Institute.
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The Oxford Pastorate is an independent Anglican trust whose chaplains
have been serving Oxford students since 1893