Current Trustees

 

Our Trustees promote Historic Royal Palaces’ Cause in the world.

They act in the organisation's best interests, ensuring high standards in all the work we do, and that we use our money and resources as effectively as possible.

The gardens surrounding Hampton Court Palace

Who's who

Charles Mackay - Chairman

Chairman of Production Services Network Limited.  Member of the Business Board of the House of Habib, and a member of the Board of INSEAD.  He was Chairman of TDG plc (2000-08).  Senior Independent Director of Johnson Matthey plc 1999-2008 and non-executive Chairman of the Eurotunnel Group 2001-04, having been Deputy Chairman since 1999 and a non-executive director since 1997.  Other former non-executive directorships have included HSBC Holdings, British Airways, Thistle Hotels (where he was Deputy Chairman) and Gucci Group.  He was until 1996 Group Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman of Inchcape plc, the international marketing and services group.  Previously he worked with BP, McKinsley, 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 also 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 VIII’s Hospital (Sister Agnes) and Trustee and Deputy Treasurer of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Sophie Andreae

An experienced historic buildings professional, who currently holds a series of posts including Trustee of the Greenwich Foundation, Member of St Paul’s Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee and Council Member of the National Trust.  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 from 1995 to 2000 was Project Director of Tate Modern.  Formerly she was Principal Consultant at KPMG, Theatre Manager of the Half Moon Theatre and Projects Co-ordinator at Arts & Business.  Dawn sits on the Arts and Humanities Research Council Audit Committee and is a member of the Funding Commission of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).

General Sir Richard Dannatt GCB CBE

159th Constable of the Tower of London, following forty years in the British Army.  Final appointment was as Chief of the General Staff 2006-2009. He is also 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 Soldiers Charity Norfolk; Vice Patron St Dunstans; Appeal Board Member, Combat Stress; Council Member, Royal United Services Institute.  He is currently writing his autobiography.  He is a Comment Writer and Analyst for the Telegraph Media Group. 

Sue Farr

An Executive Director of Chime Communications plc since 2003 and prior to this European Managing Director of Golin/Harris.  Formerly Director of Corporate Communications for Thames Television plc (1990-93) and Director of Marketing for the BBC (1993-2000).  A director of The Marketing Society since 1984, she was the first woman Chair in 1991-92.  She is now a fellow and a member of the Chairman’s Council.  She was Chairman of The Marketing Group of Great Britain in 1999-2001 and is a council member and secretary.  A Non Executive Director of Motivcom plc since Feburary 2008. 

John Hamer

An education consultant, Deputy Chairman of AlphaPlus Consultancy Ltd and special lecturer in the School of Education at Nottingham University.  He worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools in Manchester, Sussex and Canada before joining HM Inspectorate as a history, assessment and secondary education specialist.  From 1997-2000 he was an education policy adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund.  He is also an author, an adviser to the Council of Europe and the Historic Houses Association and is Chairman of the Heritage Education Trust.  He is a trustee/governor for two schools.

 

 

Sir Adrian Montague CBE

Chairman of Anglian Water Group (since March 2009) and Chairman of Michael Page International plc, a recruitment company and a Director of Skanska AB, the Swedish international engineering and construction group.  He is also a Chairman of London First and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Reform.  He was Chairman of British Energy Group plc (2004-2009) and of Friends Provident plc (2004-2009).

Sir Trevor Mcdonald OBE

The television presenter who currently leads ITV’s flagship current affairs programme, ‘Tonight with Trevor McDonald’.  He has enjoyed a long and distinguished news career, meeting some of the world’s iconic leaders including George Bush and Nelson Mandela.  He serves in a number of charitable organisations including National Children’s Homes, the Shooting Star Children’s Hospice, Friends of Barnes Hospital and DePaul Trust.  He also helps organisations dealing with awareness of Sickle Cell, autism and homelessness among young people.  He was Chancellor of South Bank University (2002-2009) and is a Governor of Kings College School. 

Malcolm Reading

An architect who runs a multi-disciplinary company, he works in the heritage, education and regeneration sectors.  He was Director of Architecture and Design with the British Council 1991-96.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers Honorary Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an adviser to the competitions office of the Royal Institute of British Architects.  He is also Chair of the Tower of London World Heritage Site Consultative Committee.  

Jonathan Marsden LVO FSA

Director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art (since May 2010).  He was Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art from 1996 until 2010, with curatorial responsibility for the decorative arts.  He was a trustee of the Georgian Group for ten years until 2005 and is currently a trustee of the Art Fund, the City and Guilds of London Art School, the Royal Yacht Britannia Trust and the Household Cavalry Museum Trust.  He is on the Collections Committee of the Royal College of Music and edits the annual journal Furniture History.  He is a governor of a primary school in North Lambeth.