Sir Roderick Macleod Beaton, FBA, FKC (born 29 September 1951)[1] is a retired academic.
He was Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1988 to 2018.
Born in 1951, Beaton was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with an English literature degree in 1973.
"[2] Beaton spent three years as the Ouranis Foundation Fellow in Modern Greek at the University of Birmingham (1977–80)[1] before joining King's College London in 1981 as a lecturer.
He was appointed Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College in 1988,[3] and was also head of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies from 1988 to 1994 and again from 1995 to 1998,[1] and director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies from 2012 to 2016.