Charles Mackay - Chairman

Chairman of Production Services Network Limited from 2009 until April 2011, a Member of the Business Board of the House of Habib and of the Insead Advisory Council.  He was Chairman of TDG plc (2000-08), and of the Eurotunnel Group (2001-04), having been Deputy Chairman since 1999 and a non-executive director since 1997. He was Senior Independent Director of Johnson Matthey plc (1999-2008) and a member of the Board of INSEAD (2000-2011). Other former non-executive directorships have included HSBC Holdings, British Airways, Thistle Hotels (where he was Deputy Chairman) and Gucci Group.  He is also Trustee of The Development Trust (for the mentally handicapped).He was until 1996 Group Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman of Inchcape plc, the international marketing and services group.  Previously he worked with BP, McKinsey, Royal Pakhoed and the Chloride Group.

Sir Alan Reid KCVO
Deputy Chairman

Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to The Queen, and Receiver General of the Duchy of Lancaster.  He is a Trustee of the Royal Collection Trust and Chairman of Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd.  Formerly he was International Chairman of KPMG Management Consultancy Worldwide and Chief Operating Officer for KPMG in the UK.  He is also Governor and Member of Council, King Edward VII’s Hospital (Sister Agnes) and Trustee and Deputy Treasurer of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Sophie Andreae

An experienced historic buildings professional, who is also a Council Member of the National Trust and a Trustee of the Greenwich Foundation. She was a Member of St Paul’s Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee (1991-2011). Prior to this, she served as Head of London Division of English Heritage, before being appointed Commissioner of the Royal Fine Art Commission and of its successor body, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), where she served two terms before standing down in 2004.  She is a member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation.

Dawn Austwick OBE

Chief Executive of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.  She was Deputy Director of the British Museum, and was Project Director of Tate Modern (1995-2000).  Formerly she was Principal Consultant at KPMG, Theatre Manager of the Half Moon Theatre and Projects Co-ordinator at Arts & Business. 
Dawn is the Chairman of Foundations Forum and is a member of the independent Philanthropy Review.  She was a member of the Social Investment Task Force.

Ian Barlow DL

Liz Cleaver

An experienced media professional with a long and distinguished career at the BBC. Here she fulfilled a variety of roles from radio and television production to launching BBC Knowledge, the forerunner of BBC 4, setting up the interactive capability for all factual and learning programmes and as Controller, BBC Learning, responsibility for the BBC’s learning output and activity. 

Before moving to the BBC, Liz originally worked as a History teacher. Liz is currently a Digital Consultant, Chair of The Reading Agency and a trustee of Crisis.

General the Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL

159th Constable of the Tower of London, following 40 years in the British Army.  Final appointment was as Chief of the General Staff (2006-2009). He is a Trustee of the Royal Armouries; Patron, Hope and Homes for Children; Trustee, the Windsor Leadership Trust; Founder Patron, Help for Heroes; Patron, Royal British Legion Norfolk; President, ABF The Soldier’s Charity Norfolk; Vice Patron St Dunstan’s; Appeal Board Member, Combat Stress; Council Member, Royal United Services Institute.  He is also a comment writer and analyst for the Telegraph Media Group.