Paul Charles Ram Flather (born 28 December 1954) is a British academic. Until 2018 he served as the Secretary-General of the Europaeum, an association of leading European universities, and is Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He is the son of Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather. He was formerly a journalist working for the BBC, Times newspapers and the New Statesman where he was deputy editor. He has written for many publications on education and politics. Education and research Flather attended Fox Primary School in London from 1962 to 1963, Hurst Court School in Hastings from 1963 to 1968, and won a scholarship to attend Rugby School from 1968 to 1972. From 1973 to 1976, he took his BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class Honours B.A. After working as a journalist and in politics for several years, Flather returned to Oxford and Balliol in 1985 for the completion his MA and DPhil (PhD) research degree on modern Indian politics. He received the Political Studies Association annual award for the best dissertation in any field of political studies for his doctoral thesis in 1991. His research interests focus on Indian democracy since 1947 and more recently on anti-corruption strategies. These interests arose as a result of family connections to Indian political geography. His family fled Lahore, where his great-great-grandfather had founded hospitals, schools, colleges, and charities at partition settling in Delhi. He was sent to school in the UK and has remained ever since, seeing himself as a child of the Commonwealth with feet in both countries. Selected publications Co-option and Exclusion: A Study of the Indian Parliament and its MPs -(forthcoming) Combating Global Corruption – Editor and presenter or special CD in Offshoots series, published and distributed globally by British Council (2005). Drug Abuse among the Young - article for Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985). Co-editor of volume of essays on Paradigms of Migration and essay on People on the Move – lessons for the European Political Class (ibiden, 2010). Editor Europaeum Review journal, including writer of many keynote articles (2000– ) Editor of two volumes of essays on Indian life and politics (BOPIO Handbooks, 1996 and 1997) Editor of Education Times, special supplement on Indian education for The Times of India (1986). Managing Editor and member of Advisory Board of The Oxford Magazine, distributed worldwide (1994–99). Education Matters - analysis of UK education attitudes in