Sir Oliver Robbins KCMG CB

A new fellowship has been created in memory of Jeremy Heywood (Modern History, 1980), who was Cabinet Secretary from 2012 to 2018. The post has been established through a partnership between the Heywood Foundation and Oxford University, and will be associated with Hertford College. The first incumbent will be another Hertford alumnus, Olly Robbins (PPE, 1996).

The purpose of the new Fellowship is to allow a Civil Service Permanent Secretary the opportunity to explore issues relating to public service and policy, based at the Blavatnik School of Government. Olly will hold the post from September until Christmas.

Olly has been in the civil service since he joined HM Treasury after gradaution. Having held a number of high profile roles, including latterly being the Prime Minister’s Europe Advisor, and prior to that the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Exiting the EU, he left earlier this year.