TRUSTEES

 

SIR GEOFFREY OWEN (Chairman)
SIR RICHARD LAMBERT
PROFESSOR IAN HARGREAVES
CHRISTOPHER HIRD

 

RUPERT PENNANT-REA
PROFESSOR COLIN ROBINSON
ELIZABETH WINCOTT HECKETT
PROFESSOR GEOFFREY WOOD
DIANE COYLE

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Biographical Details

Sir Geoffrey Owen
Current chairman of The Wincott Foundation. Former editor of the Financial Times, currently Senior Fellow, Department of Management, London School of Economics.

Sir Richard Lambert
Former editor of the Financial Times, Director General of the CBI 2006-2011.

Professor Ian Hargreaves
Ian Hargreaves is Professor of Digital Economy at Cardiff University. He is a former deputy editor of the Financial Times, director of BBC news & current affairs, and editor of The Independent and the New Statesman.

Christopher Hird
A former investment analyst and financial journalist, is the founder and managing director of Dartmouth Films Limited, the documentary production company. He is also the chair of the Channel Four BRITDOC Foundation and trustee of the Grierson Trust and Index on Censorship.

Rupert Pennant-Rea
Previous editor of The Economist and deputy governor of the Bank of England. Now chairman of Henderson.

Professor Colin Robinson
Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Surrey and former Editorial Director, Institute of Economic Affairs.

Elizabeth Wincott Heckett
Daughter of Harold and Joyce Wincott. Archaeologist (research area ancient and historic textiles) University College Cork.

Professor Geoffrey Wood
Professor of Economics at Cass Business School, London, and Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Buckingham. He has served as an adviser to the Bank of England, and is currently an adviser to the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons, a director of an investment trust, and an advisor to a large pension fund.

Diane Coyle
Runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics, and a BBC Trustee. Previously Economics Editor of The Independent (to 2001), and a member of the Competition Commission (2001-2009).

Secretary, Ian Rodger
Trustee of Heart of the City, journalist on the Financial Times for 28 years to 2008. Previously with The Globe and Mail, Toronto and La Presse, Montreal