Chair of the Oxford Martin School Management Committee

Professor Dame Sarah Whatmore FBA is Warden of Keble College, having taken up the role on 1 October 2026 as the College’s 15th Head of House

Since joining Oxford to take up a Statutory Chair in Environment and Public Policy in 2004, Professor Whatmore has served as Pro Vice Chancellor for Education, the University’s Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research, the Division’s Associate Head (Research), and as Head of the School of Geography and the Environment.

Her research focuses on the relationship between environmental science and public policy and she is an active fellow of several learned societies (including the British Academy and Academy of Social Sciences), and an appointed member of the Defra Science Advisory Council and Chair of its Social Science Expert Group.