Rev Dr Ralph Waller, MA (Oxford) BD (London) MTh (Nottingham), Ph.D. (London)

Sir Ralph Waller  KBE  (born 11 December 1945) is Director of the  Farmington Institute  at Oxford, former Principal of  Harris Manchester College, Oxford  (1988-2018) and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (2010-2018). He is a British Methodist Minister. 

Ralph Waller was born in  Lincolnshire  and educated at the  University of London  (BD) and the  University of Nottingham  (MTh) and completed a  Ph.D.  at  King's College London. 

In 1993 Sir Ralph was awarded the UK Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.  He has been awarded honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Europe and Great Britain, including Doctor of Divinity from the University of Wales and Doctor of Theology from the Uppsala University. 

He is the MacWilliams Fellow in Divinity in the University of Wales, Trinity St David. He is a trustee of several charitable trusts, Chair of the Kalisher Trust, the Westminster College Trust, The St Benet's Hall Trust, University of Oxford, and Vice-Chair of the governors of Harris Westminster Sixth Form Academy. He is an ecumenical canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. He is writing a book on Religion and Money in the Eighteenth Century.

He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2018 for services to education. 

Select Publications

An Introduction to Christian Spirituality, (edited with Benedicta Ward) (SPCK, 1999).

John Wesley: A Personal Portrait (SPCK, 2003)

Joy of Heaven: Springs of Christian Spirituality, (edited with Benedicta Ward) (SPCK, 2003).