
Robert Ellis (academic)

Robert Anthony Ellis (born 24 August 1956) is a British academic and Baptist minister, who is the Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford, England.
Biography.
Robert Ellis was born in Cardiff and educated at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1984. He is an ordained minister in the Baptist Union of Great Britain and has served congregations in Milton Keynes and Bristol. He is currently Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford. Ellis also plays a major role in Training and Formation for Baptist Ministers' training at the College.
He has expertise in pastoral theology and systematic theology, the theology of intercession, and Christianity and culture - especially theology and film, and theology and sport. He serves on the Advisory Committee of the Vatican-sponsored programme 'Sport at the Service of Humanity.'
He delivered the McCandless Lecture at Georgetown College in 2005 and again in 2010.
He has been Moderator of the Baptist Union of Great Britain Ministry Executive, and currently serves on the Baptist Steering group and Baptist Union of Great Britain Council.
His nephew is the actor Tom Ellis.