Professor John Kersey
MKNL, KCStG, KGStJ, HonLLD, HonDMus, DD, EdD, PhD, MBA, MMusRCM, MA, DipRCM, HonFNCM, HonFMusICMA,  HonFCAM, HonFNMSM, HonFASC, HonFTCSM, FRSA, FRGS, FSA Scot, FVCM, FCCM, FNSCM, FCSM, FMCM, FASL, FPerfASMC, FIGOC, FAGCM, HonCIL, HonIWA

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

Professor John Kersey 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 in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. An experienced consultant  on international education matters, he has worked extensively as a senior evaluator of foreign credentials for clients in the United States.

At EAU, he has been responsible for the dynamic expansion of its campus and online programs to realise the vision of a ground-breaking global federal university connected by online technology. That vision is uniquely based on transformative, individualised pedagogies with the student at their heart, rather than prevailing models of mass education provision along corporate lines. The specialised nature of this outreach has meant that EAU has succeeded in reaching a highly select body of current and future leaders within and beyond Africa and Asia, and stands as an increasingly respected alternative to mainstream provision. Since launch, Professor Kersey has successfully committed EAU to the pursuit of forms of accreditation and recognition for its degrees that remain compatible with its progressive educational philosophy and mode of operation, leading in 2010 to a wide-reaching validation agreement with his alma mater, the Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica.

As an academic, Professor Kersey is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans historical aspects of music, education and theology. 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  education (specializing in higher education) (Universidad Internacional, Panama) and divinity (St Ephrem's Institute of Eastern Church Studies, Scandinavia/USA), as well as an MBA and PhD (in history) from the Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica.

He has released over 50 CD recordings as a concert pianist and published books on aspects of education and church history including most recently "The University Outside State Control" (2009), "Arnold Harris Mathew and the Old Catholic Movement in England 1908-52" (2010) and "Joseph-René Vilatte (1854-1929): Some Aspects of his Life, Work and Succession" (2011).

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 several honorary degrees as well as honorary fellowships from music colleges and societies of musicians.

Since 2006, he has held senior episcopal office in the esoteric Christian tradition for churches in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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