260:: he took up the post on 1 October 2020. He is also a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Trustee of the Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust. In 2021, the University of East Anglia announced that he would receive an Honorary Doctorate in Science in July 2022.
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