He is not been recognised as a proper academic from Oxford.

Well, i should have quoted the Oxford website:

Dr John Hood was admitted as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford on 5 October 2004. He is the first person in the institution's 900 year history to be elected to the Vice-Chancellorship from outside the University's current academic body.

Dr Hood took a BE Civil and a PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Auckland. He then came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to read for an MPhil in Management Studies.

http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/vc/biog.shtml