Anastasios Christodoulou - Later Career

Later Career

Christodoulou was the Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities from 1980 to 1996. He increased the membership of the association, and raised £2 million in a 75th anniversary appeal with the Canadian academic Thomas Symons. A great supporter of the Commonwealth, Christodoulou was also acting Chairman of the Governors of the Commonwealth Institute, Secretary of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, and a Governor of the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver. In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate from Brunel University. He was a Trustee of Richmond, The American International University in London, and in 1997 received an honorary doctorate in International Relations from that university. He also received honorary doctorates from the University of Ottawa and the University of Auckland. In 1995 he received the National University of Lesotho's fiftieth anniversary award for distinguished service to African education.

Christodoulou retained his links with Cyprus. With Loucas Haji-Ioannou, the father of Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of EasyJet, he attempted to set up a new Cyprus university, but, to his disappointment, Haji-Ioannou pulled out. Shortly before his death Christodoulou returned to the village where he had been born but was unhappy to discover that it had been occupied by Turkish troops. During his last years he was affected by eyesight problems and was treated for cancer.

On 10 December 1955, he married Joan Patricia Edmunds, a librarian and the daughter of John Samuel Edmunds, an engineer. They had two sons and two daughters.

Anastasios Christodoulou died from cancer at the General Hospital, Milton Keynes, on 20 May 2002.