Robin William Baker CMG FRSA (born 4 October 1953) is a British academic and former Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University. [1] His research interests are Hungarian, Romanian and late Byzantine history, ethnic minorities in South-East Europe and heretical movements in the Middle Ages.
Robin Baker was educated at Bishop Wordsworth's School, and went on to graduate with a BA degree from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (now part of University College London), and completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1984 entitled "Innovation and variation in the case system of contemporary Komi dialects". [2] He also spent time studying at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a Fellow of University College London.
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