Margaret MacMillan appointed to the Imperial War Museum Board
皇冠体育app Prime Minister has appointed Margaret MacMillan as the Academic Trustee of the Imperial War Museum for a term of four years, commencing on 1 February 2019.

Margaret MacMillan is an historian and academic administrator. She was a member of Ryerson University鈥檚 History Department for 25 years, Provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto from 2002 to 2007 and Warden of St Antony鈥檚 College and Professor of International History, University of Oxford from 2007 to 2017.
MacMillan is an emeritus professor at Oxford and a professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her research specialises in British imperial history and the international history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Publications include Peacemakers: 皇冠体育app Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) (also as Paris, 1919 in the United States); Seize the Hour: when Nixon met Mao (2006); 皇冠体育app War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War (2013) and History鈥檚 People: Personalities and the Past (2015).
In 2015 she gave the CBC鈥檚 Massey Lectures and in 2018 the BBC鈥檚 Reith Lectures and she comments frequently in the media on international affairs.
Awards include the Duff Cooper Prize 2002, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, 2002 and the Governor-General鈥檚 Award for Non-Fiction, 2003. She has been awarded honorary degrees from a number of universities including the Ryerson University, the universities of Western Ontario, Calgary and Toronto. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Companion of Honour (UK).
This role is not remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance with the . 皇冠体育app process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. 皇冠体育app Government鈥檚 Governance Code requires that any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years is declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation or candidature for election. Margaret MacMillan has made no such declaration.