Gavin Dennis Flood (born 1954) is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology,[1] but with research interests that span South Asian traditions.
[2] From October 2005 through December 2015, he served in the Faculty of Theology University of Oxford and as the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies which is a Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford.
[3] In 2008, Flood was granted the title of professor of Hindu studies and comparative religion from the University of Oxford.
[4] In 2016, Flood became the inaugural Yap Kim Hao Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.
[5] He is a senior research fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford.