Philip Esler

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Philip Francis Esler is an Australian-born academic who became the inaugural Chief Executive of the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2005. He read Law and Theology at the Universities of Sydney (B.A., LL.B., LL.M.) and Oxford (D.Phil.), and was sometime Vice-Principal at St Andrews University. During his tenure of the AHRC he continues to hold the Chair in Biblical Criticism at St Andrews.