cURRENT cOMMON cORE eXTERNAL eXAMINERS

Overall Programme

Scientific and Technological Literacy

Arts and Humanities

Global Issues

  • Robin Shields
    Robin Shields

    Professor and Head of School, School of Education
    University of Queensland

China: Culture, State and Society

  • Victor Shih
    Victor Shih

    Professor of Political Science;
    Director, 21st Century China Center;
    Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations,
    UC San Diego

Artificial Intelligence

  • Daniel Stoljar
    Daniel Stoljar

    Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Centre for Consciousness,
    Australian National University

Prior Common Core External Examiners

Overall Programme

  • Harry Lewis
    Harry Lewis

    (2010/11 to 2013/14)
    Research Professor of Computer Science
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Harvard University

  • Matthew Sparke
    Matthew Sparke

    (2014/15 to 2017/18)
    Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
    Politics Department
    UC Santa Cruz

  • David Helfand
    David Helfand

    (2018/19 to 2021/22)
    Professor of Astronomy
    Department of Astronomy
    Columbia University

Scientific and Technological Literacy

  • Venkatesh Narayanamurti
    Venkatesh Narayanamurti

    (2010/11 to 2014/15)
    Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Harvard University

  • Armando Fox
    Armando Fox

    (2015/16 to 2018/19)
    Professor
    Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department
    University of California, Berkeley

  • Bob Chen
    Bob Chen

    (2019/20 to 2023-24)
    Interim Dean and Professor
    School for the Environment
    University of Massachusetts Boston

Arts and Humanities

  • Shigehisa Kuriyama
    Shigehisa Kuriyama

    (2010/11 to 2013/14)
    Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History
    Department of History
    Harvard University

  • Sander Gilman
    Sander Gilman

    (2014/15 to 2017/18)
    Director
    Program in Psychoanalysis
    Emory University

  • Ursula Heise
    Ursula Heise

    (2018/19 to 2022/23)
    Professor & Chair
    Department of English
    University of California, Los Angeles

Global Issues

  • Manjunath Pendakur
    Manjunath Pendakur

    (2010/11 to 2013/14)
    Faculty Member
    School of Communication & Multimedia Studies
    Florida Atlantic University

  • Douglas Kellner
    Douglas Kellner

    (2014/15 to 2016/17)
    Distinguished Research Professor
    Education Faculty
    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Ien Ang
    Ien Ang

    (2017/2018 to 2023/24)
    Professor of Cultural Studies
    Institute for Culture and Society
    University of Western Sydney

China: Culture, State and Society

  • Andrew Walder
    Andrew Walder

    (2010/11 to 2017/18)
    Denise O’Leary & Kent Thiry Professor
    School of Humanities and Sciences
    Standford University

  • Michael Puett
    Michael Puett

    (2018/19 to 2023/24)
    Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History
    Department of History
    Harvard University