Professor Toby Wilkinson
Independent Director
- t.wilkinson@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- Vice-Chancellor's Office
Toby has held a series of senior leadership roles in the higher education sector. These include Director of International Strategy at the University of Cambridge, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, and Vice-Chancellor of Fiji National University. Toby is currently a Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, where his responsibilities include finance, estates, HR, IT, governance, strategy, communications and advancement. He is also a Governor of Ipswich School and lives in Suffolk. Toby is an internationally acclaimed Egyptologist and the prize-winning, best-selling author of 15 books which have been translated into 14 languages.
Research interests: the history and civilisation of the Nile Valley, ancient and modern; the history of archaeology in the Nile Valley.
Recent publications include:
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings (Yale University Press, 2023)
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects (Picador, 2022)
A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology (Picador, 2020)
Aristocrats and Archaeologists: An Edwardian Journey on the Nile (AUC Press, 2017)
Writings from Ancient Egypt (Penguin Classics, 2016)
The Nile: Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present (Bloomsbury 2014)
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Public engagement: frequent speaker at history, science and literary festivals in the UK and abroad.
A published author and regular speaker on the internationalisation of higher education.
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries