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Chris Patten

Chris Patten is the Chancellor of Oxford University. He served as the Governor of Hong Kong, overseeing its return to China in 1997, and he was one of the United Kingdom’s two members to the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. His most recent book, What Next? Surviving the Twenty-first Century, was published in 2008. (March 2010)

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