Univ Record 2017

1967
ANTHONY EDWARD STERN (Marlborough) died in 2015. David Squire (1967) has
kindly provided us with this obituary:
Anthony Stern, born on 28 May 1948, died on 1 October 2015 after suffering with cancer
for several years.
Anthony arrived at Univ in Michaelmas 1967 from Marlborough College to read
Engineering and Economics. He had spent the previous spring and summer working at
a kibbutz, near the then Jordanian border, which resulted in a quite unexpected but very
direct experience of the Six Day War. In our first year we shared rooms in Old Bursary 2. I
considered myself very lucky with this allocation because Anthony proved to be stimulating
and a lot of fun, and his friendship greatly enriched my time at Oxford.
I don’t recall Anthony taking part in organised team sports. However, he did fly with the
ATC and learnt SCUBA diving so that he could participate in the 1969 Oxford University
marine archaeology expedition to a site near Syracuse. The work of this and related expeditions
was referenced in the 2016 Ashmolean Exhibition, “Treasures from the Sicilian Seas.”
When Anthony left Oxford he followed a graduate
traineeship at Marks and Spencer, then worked at
Dixons and Chase Manhattan Bank before joining Bass.
His final full time role was that of Head of Treasury at
InterContinental Hotels Group (“IHG”). The distinct
profession of corporate treasurer only emerged in the late
1970s and Anthony was an early practitioner. He was
elected to the Council of the Association of Corporate
Treasurers in 1992, chaired the Editorial Committee
from 1994 to 1997 and became President for 2001/2002.
On retirement from IHG, Anthony took on
a variety of part time roles. Notable among these
were membership of the Competition Commission,
trusteeship of several pension funds and membership of
the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator. He
also lectured and wrote for the Economist Intelligence
Unit.
Time spent with Anthony was never dull as he
always had a good stock of entertaining stories and a wide range of interests. He sang for
many years in several choirs, performing at the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall;
he was an enthusiastic skier and long distance walker; and knew how to find and judge edible
wild mushrooms.
Anthony married Elizabeth Slade (LMH 1968) in 1975 and he took considerable pride
in her successful legal career which led to her appointment as a High Court Judge in 2008.
They had two daughters, Charlotte and Harriet. Anthony was delighted to be able to attend
Harriet’s wedding by special ambulance shortly before he died.
It was my great good fortune to have known Anthony. He was generous, witty, excellent
company and a very good man.
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1968
ANTHONY JOHN ODY (St. Edward’s) died on 28 February 2016 aged 65. We are most
grateful to Anthony’s widow Nancy for supplying the following tribute:
Anthony Ody was born and educated in England. He graduated with First Class
Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from University College, where
he subsequently earned a graduate degree (M Phil) in Economics. He was the recipient
in 1971 of the Oxford University’s Webb Medley Prize in Economics. He served during
1971-3 in Britain’s counterpart to the Peace Corps, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO),
undertaking development planning and policy work for the Government of Fiji.
Anthony joined the World Bank through the Young Professionals Program in 1975.
His 30 years of service with the Bank included working on rural development in Africa
during 1976-81, and on international energy issues during 1981-6. He worked from 1986
to 1994 on the coordination of the World Bank’s country programme for China (and
was responsible, during 1992-4, for formulating the Bank’s Country Assistance Strategy
for China). He transferred to the Bank’s Regional Office for Latin America and the
Caribbean in 1994, and served under successive Regional Vice Presidents as the Senior
Adviser in the Regional Office from 1998 until his retirement from the Bank in 2005.
After retiring from the World Bank, Anthony undertook writing and consulting
assignments for organizations including the Brookings Institution, the Center for Global
Development, the United Nations Foundation, the World Bank, the World Economic
Forum (Davos), several publishing houses and a major private investor. He served as
adviser to the Secretariat of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee, the
institutions’ ministerial forum on development policy and financing.
Over the course of his career, Anthony wrote on a range of global development issue,
and on the political economy of development in China and Latin America. He taught at
the graduate student level as an Affiliated Professor at Georgetown University’s Public
Policy Institute between 2005 and 2008. Earlier in his career he taught undergraduates
at the University of the South Pacific and the Fiji Institute of Technology, and graduate
Rhodes Scholars at University College, Oxford.
Anthony was an enthusiastic singer. He was a member of the World Bank choir for
most of his career and sang for more than 20 years with the choir of Christ Episcopal
Church, Kensington, Maryland. He was a strong supporter of the arts, organizations
supporting political justice and environmental groups.
Anthony is survived by his wife of 37 years, Nancy Enikeieff Ody, also a professional
economist. Their son, Christopher Ody, is a Professor at the Kellogg School and their
daughter, Elizabeth Ody Leary, is a business journalist. They have two grandsons and
one granddaughter with a second granddaughter expected in November.
1969
OWEN JOHN WILLIAMS (Harrow) died on 18 February 2017 aged 66. He read History
at Univ. We are most grateful to Chris Herman (1969) for the following tribute:
I was very lucky to meet “OJ” in our first weeks at Univ, and to have remained close
friends with him until his untimely death earlier this year, following a period of poor
health. After graduating in 1972, he was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple and
practised thereafter as a barrister in London. At the same time he maintained and
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