Peter Mathias - Curriculum vitae#
Official British Honour
- Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
Academic Honours
- 1984 Doctor of Letters, Oxford
- 1987 Doctor of Letters, Cambridge
- 1987 Honorary Fellowship, Jesus College, Cambridge
- 1995 Honorary Fellowship, Downing College, Cambridge
- Honorary Degrees: University of Buckingham (1985), Birmingham (1988), Hull (1992), Warwick (1995), De Montfort (1995), East Anglia (1999), Kansai, Japan (2006)
- Honorary Doctorate: Russian Academy of Sciences (2003), Keio, Japan (2008)
- 1977 Fellow, The British Academy
- 1982 Foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy
- 1988 Foreign Member, royal Belgian Academy
- 1972 Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- 1989 Member, Academia Europaea
- Honorary President, International Economic History Association (President 1974-1978)
- Vice-President, Economic History Society (President 1989-92)
- Business Archives Council (Chairman 1968-72, President 1984-95)
- 1979-1989 Honorary Treasurer, British Academy
- 1987-1999 Vice-President, International Economic History Institute, ‘Datini’, Prato, Italy
Academic Career
- 1948-55 Undergraduate and Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge
- 1955-68 Fellow, Tutor, Director of Studies in History, Queen’s College, Cambridge, University Lecturer in History
- 1968-87 Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
- 1987-95 Master of Downing College, Oxford
Other main positions held
- 1965-1966 Senior Proctor, Cambridge University
- 1972-1987 Curator, Bodleian Library, Oxford
- 1994-2000 Chairman, National Advisory Council, British Library
- 1992-1998 Member of Beirat, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
- 2000- present Chairman, Advisory Board, Central European University Press, Budapest
Links with Japan
- Many academic visits to Japan and links with Japanese economic historians since 1967
- 1983-5 Research supervisor to H.I.H. Prince Naruhito, now Crown Prince of Japan, at Oxford, and since then adviser for his research
- 1987-95 Close links with Keio University through being Master of Downing College, Cambridge
- 1994- Trustee of Great Britain-Sasakawa Foundation (Chairman 1997-2005, President 2005-)
- 2003 Awarded Grand Cordon, Oder of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays (Imperial Japanese decoration)
- 2006 – 2008 International Adviser to the President, Keio University
- 2006 Visiting Professor, Kansai University, and Honorary Doctorate
