Professor John Kersey
OCR, MKNL, KCStG, KGStJ, HonLLD, HonDMus, HonCDPhilMus, DD, EdD, PhD, MBA, MMusRCM, MA, DipRCM, LThMin, HonFMusICMA,  HonFCAM, HonFNMSM, HonFASC, FRSA, FRGS, FSA Scot, FCCM, FNSCM, FCSM, FMCM, FASL, HonCIL, HonIWA

- Chief Academic Officer
- Research Director and Head of Research Centers
- David Hume Interdisciplinary Professor

Professor John Kersey is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans historical aspects of music, education and theology. He became President of EAU in 2007, having been involved with the EAU project from its inception in 2003. His prior experience in education includes managerial, administrative and teaching posts within state and private institutions.

Educated at the Royal College of Music (where he is a former Junior Fellow and earned bachelor's (with first class honors) and master's degrees) and the University of Cambridge in the UK, as well as at institutions in continental Europe, Africa and Central America, he has earned doctorates in the humanities (Universidad San Juan de la Cruz, Costa Rica), education (specializing in higher education) (Universidad Internacional, Panama) and divinity (St Ephrem's Institute of Eastern Church Studies, Norway/Sweden/USA)., as well as an MBA from the Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica.

He has recorded over 50 albums as a concert pianist and published books on aspects of education and theology including most recently "The University Outside State Control" (2009) and "A History of the Old Catholic Movement in England" (2 vols., 2010).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Royal Geographical Society and Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, as well as being a Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from one of his alma maters, Adam Smith University of Liberia, as well as other honorary doctorates from universities in Malaysia and the United States, and honorary fellowships from music colleges and societies of musicians.

Ordained in the ecumenical Christian tradition, he serves as Archbishop of Great Britain in the Apostolic Episcopal Church and Rector Pro-Provincial of Canterbury in the Order of Corporate Reunion.

For further details, see his personal website, which includes a full biography and list of publications.