Dr Toby Wilkinson

Bursar, Clare College

Dr Toby Wilkinson has held a series of senior leadership roles in the higher education sector, in the UK and overseas. These include Director of International Strategy at the University of Cambridge, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, and Vice-Chancellor of the Fiji National University.

Toby is currently Bursar and Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, where his responsibilities include finance, estates, operations, governance and communications. He is also an Independent Director of the University of Suffolk and a Governor of Ipswich School. Toby is an internationally acclaimed Egyptologist and the prize-winning, best-selling author of 15 books which have been translated into 15 languages.

He is an alumnus of Downing College Cambridge (MA) and Christ’s College Cambridge (PhD), and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.