10 Facts About Ivor Crewe

Sir Ivor Martin Crewe DL FAcSS was born on 15 December 1945 and is a former Master of University College, Oxford, and President of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Ivor Crewe was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and a Professor in the Department of Government at Essex.

The son of Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia and Germany, Crewe was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then went to Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained a first-class BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1966.

Ivor Crewe was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University at the age of 21, before returning to Oxford in 1969 for two years as a Junior Research Fellow, thereafter moving to a Lectureship at the Department of Government at the University of Essex in 1971.

Ivor Crewe was a frequent commentator on UK elections for television and the press.

Ivor Crewe argued that the Labour Party was destined for electoral defeat as the traditional working class contracted unless it both appealed to a wider social constituency embracing other classes and revised its assumptions about the policies that would appeal to a majority of voters.

Ivor Crewe regarded the electoral success of New Labour in the 1997 and 2001 general elections as a vindication of his electoral analysis.

From 1995 to 1 September 2007, Ivor Crewe was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and is a former Chair of the 1994 Group and President of Universities UK.

In July 2008, Ivor Crewe succeeded Lord Butler of Brockwell as Master of University College, Oxford.

Ivor Crewe was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2006 New Year Honours.