Paul O'Prey

Paul Gerard O'Prey CBE is an academic leader and author who was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Roehampton, London from 2004 until 2019.

[1] In 2019 he was appointed chair of the Edward James Foundation, which owns a large rural estate in the South Downs and runs West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.

[6] That work led him to publish a biographical study of Graves told through his letters with other eminent writers such as Siegfried Sassoon, T.S.

His media appearances include BBC Two's War of Words: Soldier Poets of the Somme, broadcast in 2014[13] and a Channel 4 programme on drugs and art.

[22] O'Prey was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to higher education and the literary history of the First World War.