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Ivor Crewe
1945Dec, 15

Ivor Crewe

Ivor Crewe, English political scientist and academic
Sir Ivor Martin Crewe DL FAcSS (born 15 December 1945) was until 2020 the Master of University College, Oxford, and President of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and also a Professor in the Department of Government at Essex.

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