Non-Executive Director

I have significant and broad experience as a non-executive director, with particular expertise in organisations that have to deliver profitable outcomes in a regulated and complicated stakeholder environments

NED roles including companies and institutions under statutory regulation 

Companies ; LEBC (Chair); Property Merchant Group; Rural Catalyst Ltd, ESG Validation Ltd (Chair), Beyond Carbon Ltd (Chair)
 
Government Agencies ; FCO Diplomatic Academy,
Countryside Agency,
Commissioner for Rural Communities
Commonwealth Scholarships Commission

 Education : Council of Durham University, (Chair of Ethics Committee and Chair of Hatfield College Council, member of Finance and Investment Committee),
Governor and Vice Chair Bridewell Royal Hospital

 Charities and research organisations : Television Trust for the Environment,
Fishing for Schools,
VERTIC (arms and WMD monitoring), ,
Game and Wildlife Conservancy Trust,
Chair Global Health Assurance Partnership (Geneva),
Central London Alliance (CIC),
Shropshire Agricultural Society

Board-level advisory roles City of London :
Junior Warden of the Worshipful Company of World Traders,
Deputy Chair of the Financial Services Group of modern livery companies Adviser to the City of London Corporation on Diplomatic and International Engagement

Adviser to the late Duke of Westminster (Gerald Grosvenor)
Advisor to the late Paul van Vlissingen (Executive Chair and majority owner of SHV)

Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) Strategic Adviser on African government partnerships, African Parks Conservation
International Advisory Board member of London Institute of Banking and Finance

Associations : Deputy Chair, Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO);
Chair Association of Chief Executives (for government agencies and statutory bodies);
Chair, Science Advisory Council of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria