Our People

Peter is the founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust and is also the chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation.

Before establishing the Sutton Trust, Peter was the founder and chairman of the Sutton Company, a Private Equity firm with offices in New York, London and Munich.

To contact Peter, please email his personal assistant, Anna Fellows.

James is the Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust and has been in post since February 2019. Prior to that, James was Deputy CEO of the Trust’s sister charity, the Education Endowment Foundation. He also led the Trust’s £135m bid to set up the EEF in 2011, was its interim CEO and served as a founding Trustee.

James is also a trustee of The Brilliant Club, the Centre for Homelessness Impact, and a governor of a comprehensive school in the East Midlands, where he lives.

To contact James, please email Emma Legg.

Laura leads the programmes team at the Trust. She is responsible for our beneficiary facing work, partnerships, impact of programmes and acts as our Designated Safeguarding Officer. Laura joined the Trust in January 2017, after working in both the higher education and voluntary sectors where she managed and developed a range of programmes and initiatives, including access to higher education programmes and employability initiatives sponsored by the Mayor of London’s office. Laura also worked on Sutton Trust Summer Schools as a student ambassador whilst she was studying at university.

Laura is also a trustee of School Home Support, Prime Commitment, and sits on the information, advice and guidance advisory group for the Office for Students.

Doug Thomson leads the development team at the Trust. He began his career in development roles at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, University of Oxford and at the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Doug served as the first Development Director at the Sutton Trust from 2005 to 2009 and has since worked as an independent consultant and at the University of Nottingham as Director of the £242m Impact Campaign.

Hilary is responsible for communicating the work of the Sutton Trust to external stakeholders through digital, social and traditional media. Prior to this, she worked at a cultural communications agency managing media campaigns for films, exhibitions, festivals and charities.

Carl commissions and manages the Trust’s programme of policy-focused research. He has authored reports on subjects including student finance, life skills, internships and social selectivity in schools. He joined the Trust in 2016, having worked in a variety of roles in social and political research, including NatCen and Democratic Audit.

Laura joined the Sutton Trust in 1997 helping Sir Peter Lampl to establish the Trust. Between 1997-2015, she has combined raising a family with a range of roles at the Trust, most recently taking the lead in our early years’ work. Laura remains involved as a consultant for the Sutton Trust and Esmee Fairbairn Parental Engagement Fund.

Sara joined the Trust in January 2020 and manages the Pathways residential conferences, as well as overseeing the Pathways to Law Plus programme and acting as a Designated Safeguarding Officer for the Trust. She has previously worked for youth charities and for a university careers service. Sara studied Modern Languages at the University of Bristol.

Gemma joined the Sutton Trust in November 2019 and works on the Trust’s portfolio of outreach initiatives and Pathways programmes to improve access to the workplace and provide work experience opportunities for young people. A Sutton Trust US programme alumnus, Gemma graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor’s degree in History and still enjoys mentoring and volunteering on the US programme. Prior to joining the Sutton Trust full time, Gemma worked at a start-up company running events to connect the UK’s brightest students with top employers for internships and career opportunities.

Maariyah works on the National Tutoring Programme, which is being designed by the Trust and other education charities to support schools in helping disadvantaged pupils whose education has been most affected by school closures. She joined the Sutton Trust in 2019 on the internship scheme. Prior to this she was on the Speaker’s Parliamentary Placement Scheme in the House of Commons where she worked for an MP.

Marie-Rose leads the alumni programmes and engagement activity at the Trust. She is responsible for our alumni relations strategy, as well as building new programmes to service the needs of our alumni community particularly in the area of employability. Marie-Rose joined the Trust in February 2021, after working in the higher education sector at a range of institutions including the University of Manchester, Royal Holloway University and London Business School. Marie-Rose’s experience spans alumni relations and volunteer management, as well as digital fundraising and communications. Marie-Rose also spent two years at a start-up – digital fundraising tech provider Hubbub Fundraising, where she worked as an Account Manager and Digital Fundraising Consultant, working with over 40 UK HE and School clients managing their digital projects and advising them on their fundraising campaigns.

Marie-Rose is also a regular volunteer for the charity Streetlink helping process phone and web alerts for rough sleepers across the country, to connect them up with vital services and support.

Katherine joined the Trust in February 2019 to oversee the Apprenticeship Campaign. She has previously worked within the charity and public sector supporting young people develop the skills and confidence to reach their potential in employment. Katherine graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BA in English and Education.

Ross works on events and discrete projects which span the Trust’s work in Development, Programmes, Communications, Research and Policy. He joined the Trust in 2018 as a Programmes intern and holds a History degree from the University of Cambridge.

Anna has been Sir Peter’s personal assistant and diary manager since the inception of the Sutton Trust and for ten years before that at the Sutton Company. Anna has a BA in German and Russian from the University of Bristol.

Alice joined the Sutton Trust Internship Scheme in September 2020, and works across the policy, research and communications team. Before this, she worked for an education access charity for a year after completing her BA in History from the University of Oxford.

Erica joined the Sutton Trust in February 2020 as Research and Policy Officer. Prior to working at the trust, Erica worked in the field of Public Health. She holds a degree from the University of Southampton in Population and Geography.

Stefanie leads the finance and operations team at the Trust. She joined in August 2019 from Global’s Make Some Noise, where she was responsible for finance, governance and grant-making activities. Stefanie started her career at Barnardo’s.

Emma manages the Trust’s Operations function, working to maintain and improve the Trust’s policies and procedures in HR, recruitment and IT. She also manages James Turner’s diary. Emma graduated from the University of Surrey with a BA in English Literature and French.

Annie joined the Sutton Trust in January 2021 as Programmes Officer. She works on multiple projects across the Pathways and University access programmes to support students in accessing higher education and work placement opportunities. Annie graduated from studying Law at the University of Exeter in 2018 but since then has worked in supporting young people access their full potential. Prior to joining the Trust, Annie worked in schools to support vulnerable students and in a start-up, which connected the UK’s brightest graduates to internships and graduate roles.

Since Rebecca joined the Trust in 2017, she has authored reports on a variety of topics including internships, university access, highly able student from disadvantaged backgrounds, access to the professions and how parents use financial and cultural resources to boost their children’s educations. Rebecca previously completed a PhD at the University of Manchester, and was a Fellow at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

Binda leads on the Trust’s new and exciting innovation work. She looks at how we can have a broader impact on a greater number of young people. Binda was previously our Head of Programmes & Partnerships and former MD of Pure Potential. She is a trustee of PRIME and Access Accountancy, and was a young trustee at the Diana Award.

Ben joined in early 2017. He graduated in 2016 from the University of Nottingham with a degree in Politics and International Relations. Prior to joining, he worked for homelessness charity Providence Row

Laura joined the development team at the Sutton Trust in 2018 and leads on our work giving supporters a fantastic experience of championing social mobility. She has previously held fundraising roles at Anthony Nolan, Scope and School-Home Support, with a particular focus on building strategic corporate partnerships. She is also a Trustee of the Peter Minet Trust. Laura studied theology at the University of Cambridge, followed by an MPhil in philosophy of religion.

Betelhem graduated in 2015 from London South Bank University with a degree in Accounting and Finance. She joined the Trust in November 2018 as Finance Officer. Prior to joining the Trust she worked for an international humanitarian aid charity based in London

Harry joined the trust in October 2019 and works across the Trust’s Pathways programmes, focusing on applications, evaluation and long-term tracking of participants. He has experience in the voluntary and grant giving sectors working on projects which support young people to develop life and work skills. Harry holds a master’s in International Development from the University of Bristol and a degree in Human Geography.

Jonny manages the Trust’s university access programmes which include UK Summer Schools, Sutton Scholars, personal statement mentoring and our work with teachers. He has previously worked with schools across the country at Shakespeare Schools Foundation and is a trustee of an Arts Centre.

Genevieve joined the Development Team in January 2021 having previously worked for two years at an East London based education charity. Prior to entering the charity sector, she worked as an English teacher at the University of Nantes in France. She holds a BA in French and Spanish and a research MA in French Studies from the University of Sheffield.

Rachel joined the Sutton Trust in late 2017 and splits her time between development and alumni work. She previously volunteered in the community fundraising department at Mind after graduating from UCL with a BA in European Languages.

Peter is the founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust and is also the chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation.

Before establishing the Sutton Trust, Peter was the founder and chairman of the Sutton Company, a Private Equity firm with offices in New York, London and Munich.

To contact Peter, please email his personal assistant, Anna Fellows.

Stephen is a private investor with interests in impact investing and education. For 30 years he was involved in family-held retail business. He has been active in strategic investing since 2002, and founded Willows Investments in 2008 with the aim of supporting promising ventures with a social mission.

•  Chair, Supervisory Board of The European Climate Foundation
• Member of the Board of Directors, World Resources Institute (USA)
• Board Member responsAbility Participations AG (Zurich)
• Supervisory Board member Pymwymic Group BV (Netherlands)
• Advisory Board member Auticon (UK)
• Advisory Board European Business School (Germany)
• Chair, Business & Law School Advisory Board of St Mary’s University Twickenham (UK)
• Member of the International Council, Global Leadership Foundation (UK)
• Member of the Fund Advisory Board, Chi Impact Capital (Switzerland)

Tim is a General Partner of Balderton Capital. He was previously a partner at Goldman Sachs where he spent 18 years. Tim started to work with Balderton and its portfolio of companies in 2006. Currently Tim serves on the Board of numerous Public and Private companies.

Tim is also a Governor of Wellington College and the Wellington Academy; a Trustee of the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity, SpringBoard and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Tim is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.

Michael A. Carpenter was chief executive officer of Ally Financial Inc. from November 2009 to February 2015. During this time he turned around this $150 billion bank and returned nearly $16 billion to the American taxpayer who funded the company as part of the auto bailout. He retired as CEO in February 2015 and continues to be active through Southgate Holdings which he founded in 2007.

Mike has broad and deep experience in banking, capital markets, turnarounds and corporate strategy. From 1995 to 2006 he held several senior management positions at Citigroup, and its predecessor Travelers Group. His most recent roles were as chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup Alternative Investments, and chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup’s Global Corporate & Investment Bank. Previously, Mr Carpenter held senior management positions at Travelers Group, GE and The Boston Consulting Group.

Mike received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nottingham, England, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. Mr Carpenter is a director of various public and private companies.

Mark is a Managing Partner at Antin Infrastructure Partners, a leading European private equity firm focussed on infrastructure investments, which he has co-led since its inception in 2007.

A chartered accountant by training, prior to Antin he had a 14 year career as an investment banker and spent 7 years at Centrica PLC where he was a member of the Executive Committee and had group-wide responsibility for strategy, business development and M&A.

Glenn Earle is a member of the Boards of Directors of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. and Rothesay Life Group. Mr. Earle is also a Board Member and Trustee of the Royal National Theatre and of Teach First, and is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Cambridge University Judge Business School.

Glenn retired in December 2011 from Goldman Sachs International, where he was most recently a Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs in various roles in New York, Frankfurt and London from 1987, becoming a Partner in 1996. From 1979 to 1985, he worked in the Latin America Department at Grindlays Bank/ANZ, leaving as a Vice President.

Glenn is a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and of Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA with High Distinction and was a Baker Scholar and Loeb, Rhoades Fellow.

Fiona set up Off The Fence Marketing seven years ago as a boutique marketing consultancy offering support on strategy, communication and innovation. In this time the firm has worked with Tesco, Unilever, Disney, William Grant and Pernod Ricard amongst others. She began her marketing career at Unilever on a trainee programme where she stayed for a decade working on local, regional and global brands.

Fiona’s key charitable interest is social mobility in the UK. She has also been the sponsor and Chair of Governors for an Ark Academy school for the last three years. She supports bursary schemes in local private schools and is a patron at the Royal Institution. Fiona attended state schools in Warrington and read Modern Languages at Durham University.

Marc is an executive and director of several operating businesses, including U.S. exchange traded GAMCO Investors, LGL Group, and Associated Capital Group. As a fund manager, his focus is global value equity investments. He manages the Gabelli Value Plus+ Trust, an investment trust trading on the London Stock Exchange. He has managed several Morningstar five star mutual funds, and a Lipper #1 ranked global equity mutual fund.

Marc is active in a variety of charitable educational efforts in the United States. He has lived and worked in the U.K. at various times, beginning in 1990 while at Lehman Brothers International. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Sloan School.

Sir Peter is a British businessman and former civil servant, currently the chairman of National Grid and the Aircraft Carrier Alliance and former chairman of Tate & Lyle. He has held senior executive positions in the UK computer, telecommunications and defence industries as well as being the first chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce. In 2004/5 Sir Peter, at the request of the Prime Minister and Chancellor, led a major review of efficiency in the UK public sector which recommended significant savings. He is a trustee of The Sutton Trust as well as the chairman of the Dreadnought Alliance and Join Dementia Research. He is married with three children and six grandchildren.

Sir Peter was awarded the CBE in 2000 for services to the Defence Industry and was knighted in 2004 for his work on public procurement. In 2016 he won the FTSE100 non-executive director of the year award. Sir Peter was educated at Reigate Grammar School and Churchill College, Cambridge.

Anthony is co-head of Investment Banking Services in EMEA and co-head of UK Investment Banking. He is a member of the Goldman Sachs Partnership Committee. He joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2007 and was named partner in 2012. Prior to joining the firm, Anthony spent seven years at Citigroup. Earlier in his career, he qualified as a corporate solicitor at Freshfields in London.

Anthony earned a BA in Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford University, and a CPE and LPC degree from the London College of Law.

Andy is co-Fund Manager of the Veritas Global strategies. He joined the company in 2003. He previously worked as an Analyst and Portfolio Manager at WP Stewart from 2001 to 2003 and Newton Investment Management from 1996 to 2001.

A Chartered Accountant, Andy also worked as a Tax Consultant at Price Waterhouse from 1993 to 1996.

Meg Headley is the co-founder of Atticus Social Purpose, a Corporate Responsibility consultancy. She has spent her career in Human Resources with Accenture and PA consulting, and most latterly as the HRD of a global professional services firm.

Andrew Law is the Chairman and CEO of Caxton Associates, a thirty five year old global macro hedge fund. He joined the London office of Caxton in 2003, was appointed global Chief Investment Officer early in 2008, and to his current position effective 1st January 2012.

He attended a state school in Manchester, and graduated from Sheffield University in 1987 with a First Class degree in Economics. Prior to Caxton, he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, as head of FICC proprietary trading in London.

His philanthropic interests include his role as a founding Trustee of both the Law Family Charitable Foundation, and the Law Family Educational Trust which sponsors a large multi academy trust in Greater Manchester. He is also Chairman of Speakers for Schools, and former Deputy Chair of the New Schools Network.

Joe joined PIMCO in 1998 to open and head the firm’s London office, its first presence in Europe.

When Joe retired from PIMCO in 2014 the firm had close to $300 billion in third-party assets across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Joe spent 33 years in the financial services industry, having previously worked for Salomon Brothers in New York and London, and Merrill Lynch in Seoul, Korea.

Following university he spent three years in Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer working in public health. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College, where he serves on the board of trustees, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Sir Harvey is Chair of Big Society Capital, and Chair of Governors of Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the former Chairman of Prudential plc, Man Group plc, and the London Development Agency, and former Deputy Chair of the Mayor of London’s Enterprise Panel. Prior to taking on the Chair of the London Development Agency he was Chairman of London First, the capital’s influential business campaign group, a director of Gateway to London, the inward investment agency for the Thames Gateway and Chairman of the East London Business Alliance, a partnership of substantial businesses engaged in the social and economic regeneration of East London.

Sir Harvey is also Chairman of Heart of the City, which helps companies develop responsible business practices through learning from one another; Chairman of the Prince’s Teaching Institute, which promotes subject based professional development for teachers; and a trustee of a number of other charities including New Philanthropy Capital, a research based charity which gives advice and guidance to donors and charities; icould, an online careers resource; and the Mayor’s Fund for London.

Ian was a founder and Managing Partner of Vitruvian Partners. He has 25 years of experience in private equity including eight years at BC Partners and three years at Schroder Ventures (now Permira). Prior to this, Ian worked in corporate finance at Schroders for five years. He has an MEng from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD.

Ian is a governor of the school he attended in Bolton and an Elizabeth de Clare Fellow of his college in Cambridge.

Kasia has over 25 years’ experience in investment banking and private equity, in the UK, US and Europe, including with Hanover Investors, Prospect Investment Management, the Sutton Company, CSFB and Goldman Sachs. She is currently active in private equity investments, sits on a number of PLC boards and is involved in various businesses in Poland. Kasia holds a MSc degree in Engineering/Economics from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Stanford Business School.

Peter is the Global Head of Equities at Deutsche Bank, where he has been since December 2017. He is also the on the Executive Committee of the Corporate and Investment Committee. Prior to that he spent 23 years at Goldman where he was latterly the co-head of Global Equities Trading and Execution Services. He spent 13 years in London and 10 years in New York.

Peter is a board member of Cambridge in America and the St. George’s Society. He also serves on the investment committees of two UK charities, Buttle UK, a children’s charity, and the Turner Contemporary Gallery. Peter earned an MA in Economics from Cambridge University in 1994.

Prior to joining Lightyear Capital in October 2014, Martin was Deputy Chairman of Willis Group Holdings plc and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Willis Global Solutions.

Previously, Martin was President and Chief Executive Officer of American International Group Inc., where he worked for 37 years. He serves on the Board of Directors of Lightyear Capital portfolio companies, Cerity Partners, Datalot and Ygrene Energy Fund. He is also Chairman of Navigators Underwriting Agency Ltd and Navigators International Insurance Company.

Richard is Chairman of Greenhill International, a leading independent investment bank focused on providing financial advice globally on significant mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, financing and capital advisory to companies and other organisations.  He joined the firm in 2020.

Richard was formerly Chairman of Global Corporate and Investment Banking at Barclays Plc.  He held a number of roles in his nine years at the firm, including: Co-Head of Global Investment Banking Division; Head of Investment Banking Division for Europe; and, on joining, Head of UK Investment Banking. Prior to joining, he spent nearly 11 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was most latterly Head of UK and Ireland Corporate and Investment Banking. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he worked at HSBC Investment Banking for 10 years.

Richard is a member of the campaign board of Historic Royal Palaces.  Richard holds a first class Engineering degree and, prior to entering investment banking in 1991, qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen.

Ian is a Senior Partner and Managing Director at BCG London, where he leads both the Financial Institutions and Education practices.

He has led numerous projects for The Sutton Trust, on GCSE under-performance, university entry, vocational education and access to the City.

Ian has also led projects for the Education Endowment Fund, Teach First and the New Schools Network.

He has a Bachelor in Commerce and Masters in Finance from University College Dublin, where he was a member of the Governing Authority.

He qualified as a barrister at the King’s Inns in Dublin and is a member of the Irish Bar.

Tim is recently retired from nearly 30 years in finance. Over the past 10 years he has served as Head of London for Balyasny Asset Management and Head of Macro for Citadel Ltd Europe; both large Chicago based hedge funds. Prior to that he ran Fixed Income Proprietary trading at Lehman Brothers Europe.

Tim attended state school in the London Borough of Havering then completed a degree in mathematics at the University of Bristol followed by a master’s degree at Imperial College London.

Tim’s philanthropic interests include Essex Community Foundation and the National Theatre.

Christopher is Chairman of EMAlternatives LLC in Washington DC, an emerging markets-focused asset management firm, and of YIMEI Capital Ltd in China. Since 1987 he has been a Director of Merifin Capital, a privately owned, Brussels-based investment company.

Until mid-2003 he served as Head of Private Equity for Dresdner Kleinwort Capital and was a Group Board Member of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson working in New York, Los Angeles, London and Frankfurt with global responsibility for alternative assets as well as for certain other activities of the Dresdner Bank Group in North America. He acted as chairman of various investment funds prior to and following the latter’s integration with Allianz A.G. He is a co-founding board member of Roper Technologies Inc (NYSE) and of IDOX plc (AIM), and continues to serve on the board of Roper.

Christopher is affiliated with and/or has sat on various boards of several other financial institutions, including Artio Global Asset Management Inc., Hansa Capital LBG., Campbell Lutyens @Co Ltd., CdB Webtech SpA., Standard Bank Group of South Africa, GP Investimentos (Brazil), IL+FS (India), and IDeA Alternative Investments SGR.

He is a graduate of Oxford University and holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance. He is a Foundation Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

James is currently a commercial barrister at Fountain Court Chambers. He grew up on a council estate in Ewell, while his mother was a hospital receptionist and his father worked as a part-time barman and part-time security employee. He attended his local comprehensive school, where he was on free school meals. 

In the summer of 1999, James attended the Sutton Trust summer school programme, studying law for a week at Oxford University. That was James’ first experience of both Oxford and law, and it was a week that changed his life. He applied to Oxford the following autumn, as the first of his family’s generation to go to university, and went on to obtain a First in Law and then a Distinction in his Masters (BCL).  

James is now keen to give back through the Fellowship to help others from non-privileged backgrounds to fulfil their potential and gain life-changing experiences. 

Debbie retired in 2014 from a 26-year career in executive search focused on the European Private Equity sector, previously having worked in investment banking in the US and the UK. 

A 2015 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University within the Advanced Leadership Initiative, she spent her time at Harvard exploring and formulating strategies to widen the reach of the Accelerate and Access Foundation’s (AAAF) activities which centre on the creation and incubation of higher education access programmes in the UK with the aim of improving social mobility. The AAAF’s flagship programme is the Kent Academy Network University Access programme which she co-founded in 2013 with seed funding from the Sutton Trust.

Other non-profit activities include various roles with the Sutton Trust US Summer School, the Natural History Museum, Working Chance (recruitment agency for women ex-offenders) and a co-chair of the Centennial Circle at Dartmouth College, a groundbreaking alumnae-led initiative. An American living in London since 1988, Debbie has an AB degree in Government from Dartmouth College in the 

US and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth. A keen sportswoman, she is an avid skier and a competitive rower. 

Ian retired in 2012 after 12 years as Chief Executive of Babson Capital Europe, following a successful career analysing and financing European private businesses. Prior to leading Babson from inception, Ian spent 18 years appraising a broad range of businesses on behalf of 3i and the Royal Bank of Scotland. 

On graduation from Glasgow University in 1976 Ian trained as a Chartered Accountant with PWC before a 5 year financial management career with GKN and Hawker Siddeley Group. 

Ian lives in Northumberland, is married with 3 children and 3 grandchildren. He is actively involved with The Prince’s Trust in Newcastle. 

Tina was educated in the state sector at Wolverhampton Girls’ High School and subsequently read Physics at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduation, she spent a year working in Singapore, and following that held a number of senior marketing positions in the publishing and professional services sector, including Deloitte. Tina is currently on a career break whilst raising her three children, and has recently completed a postgraduate qualification in business continuity, with a focus on risk management in the education sector. 

Jerry is the founder and Executive Chairman of Copper Street Capital LLP, an independent investment firm. Previously, he was a senior executive of Barclays Bank Plc in London and New York for many years and also worked at Bankers Trust and Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto.

Jerry is a past Chairman of the Board of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), and a member of the boards of the Global Financial Markets Association and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. He currently serves on the board of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Maple Leaf Trust in London.

A passionate believer in the transformative power of education, Jerry also serves as a board member of Room to Read, a global education and literacy organization, and the Advisory Board of Queen’s University Smith School of Business in Kingston, Canada. He is also a past member of the Board of Trustees at Queen’s University, where he studied, earning a BSc (Chemical Engineering) and an MBA.

Lindsey was a participant on the summer school programme in 2001 and went on to study at Cambridge University. After graduating with an Economics degree, she joined the Management Consulting firm Oliver Wyman in 2005, and became a partner at the firm at the end of 2013. Lindsey has now become a major donor to the Trust and is also helping to establish an Alumni Network to support Sutton Trust beneficiaries throughout their careers. 

Oliver Quick has worked in a number of roles in the private equity and venture capital industries, and was previously a partner in the Sutton Company. He currently works as a company advisor and private investor, and is based in London. He has also worked in a part-time capacity at the Trust. He is a graduate of Oxford University and holds post graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and King’s College London.

Dan Riggs attended the Sutton Trust Summer School at Oxford University in 1999 and went on to gain a place at the LSE to study Economics, making him the first person in his family to attend university. For the past 11 years Dan has worked in the investment management industry, firstly with Goldman Sachs and now at Brevan Howard Asset Management where he is head of UK Institutional Sales. 

Edward Shuckburgh is a Director at Montagu, a European private equity fund, where he focuses on investing in growing technology businesses. He is/has been a board director of a number of companies including Open International, CliniSys Group, Cap Automotive, and BCA. Prior to Montagu, he was a consultant with McKinsey and also worked at the Financial Times. Edward has an MBA from Harvard Business School, studied maths at Magdalen College, Oxford, and attended Verulam School in St Albans. 

Geoff is a Nephrologist practicing in Dallas, Texas since 1981 associated with Dallas Nephrology Associates, a single specialty group of 75 doctors providing care to patients with kidney disease. They provide out-patient and in-patient care as well as dialysis support and renal transplantation to patients with chronic kidney disease.

In England Geoff worked as lecturer in medicine for 4 years for Manchester University and prior to that as a trainee physician at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds. He graduated from Leeds University Medical School in 1972. Geoff is an Elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians and also Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Patrick founded Metapack in 1999 and as CEO grew the eCommerce software delivery platform to European leadership, before selling the business in 2018. Patrick still holds a part-time executive position at Metapack. He is a non-exec and investor in software company Segura, building ethical and sustainable supply chains in retail. With 20 years’ experience, he is still active as a school governor and has commissioned and co-authored work on the need for policy stability in English education. Patrick founded the Target Schools access program at Oxford University in 1982.

Leanne Wood is the Chief Human Resources Officer for Vodafone Plc. With over 20 years’ international experience in large businesses across the consumer, luxury and retail sectors, Leanne brings experience of strategic planning, running effective organisations and developing talent.

Prior to joining Vodafone, Leanne was the Chief People, Strategy and Corporate Affairs Officer for Burberry Plc and the Group HR Director of Diageo Plc. Leanne is a Non-Executive Director, Chair of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Nomination and Audit Committees at The Go-Ahead Group Plc. She is also a Trustee to The Vodafone Foundation, Vodafone’s charitable arm.

Professor Colin Bailey began his career as an apprentice draughtsman after leaving school at 16, before going on to study for a degree in Civil and Structural Engineering at Sheffield University, where he finished first in his year and offered a scholarship to study for a PhD. He joined the University of Manchester in 2002 as Professor of Structural Engineering, and became Head of the School in 2007. He was then appointed Vice-President of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, before becoming Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2014.

Over his career he has gained significant non-executive experience, including as a non-executive chair, sitting on the Board of a number charities and organisations.  He is currently a member of the Independent Expert Advisory Panel advising government on building safety following the Grenfell fire. Colin is author of more than 130 research papers and practical design guides, and has been awarded nine prizes for his research work. This has included the publication of the ‘Bailey’ fire design method, which has been used in design software and distributed to 2,500 companies in 20 countries.

He is a Chartered Structural, Civil and Fire Engineer and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He joined Queen Mary as President and Principal in September 2017.

Joanna is the principal of Stockton Sixth Form College, Stockton-on-Tees. Originally from Durham, Joanna has more than 25 years’ experience in education. She was previously principal of the over-subscribed Winstanley College in Wigan, rated outstanding by Ofsted. At Stockton she has transformed enrolment practices to adapt to the current financial and demographic pressures that colleges are facing.

Maria is the Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission. Educated in the US and in Europe, she worked for the BBC from 1991-2009 as a producer and senior editor. She then returned to the US on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard and subsequently founded Latitude News. In 2014, Maria joined the launch team of The Conversation US, a non-profit digital daily with content authored by academics and edited by journalists, working for four years as their Editor-in-Chief. Maria has had extensive contact with universities and academics on both sides of the Atlantic and is a strong supporter of expanding international educational and cultural exchange.

Ann is the Principal of King Edward VI High School for Girls, in Edgbaston, Birmingham, a successful and harmonious multi-cultural school with accessibility high on its agenda; currently around 20% girls receive some form of financial support thanks to the generosity of alumnae and the Foundation of King Edward in Birmingham. A Modern Linguist and graduate of Cambridge University, she is passionate about teaching and learning having worked in education for 30 years, in four different comprehensive schools and as a lecturer in Teacher Education at the University of Sheffield.

Kevan has worked in public service for over 30 years and became the first EEF Chief Executive in October 2011, having previously been Chief Executive in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Prior to this role he led a distinguished career in education – starting off as a primary school teacher, leading the Primary Literacy Strategy as National Director, and then serving as Director of Children’s Services at Tower Hamlets.

Naomi is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. In 1999 Naomi became the first director of the Department for Education’s Sure Start Unit. In early 2006 she was the Secretary of State’s Chief Adviser on Children’s Services before taking over as director of the Social Exclusion Task Force in the Cabinet Office. In 2015, Naomi was appointed the independent adviser on poverty and inequality to the First Minister of Scotland.

Jane is the headteacher of Carlton Bolling School in Bradford which is situated in one of the most deprived areas in the city; a serious organised crime hotspot. The school’s rapid improvement journey gained them an “Outstanding” rating from Ofsted in 2017 less than two years after coming out of Special Measures.  In 2018 Carlton Bolling was awarded “World Class Schools” Status and in October 2019 the Pearson National Teaching Award for Secondary School of the Year. Jane has over 30 years’ experience in education, holding leadership roles in three schools. She is also a founding member of the Bradford ICE district partnership board, aligning industry and education to the needs of the local and regional economy.

Mick is Director of External Affairs for Capital One UK, where he has responsibility for the business’s corporate communications, public policy advocacy and corporate social responsibility agenda. Prior to joining Capital One, Mick was a director at a City-based communications agency. He was, from 2004 until 2007 special adviser to the then Deputy Prime Minister, the Rt Hon John Prescott. Prior to that, Mick worked at the Labour Party, working in the policy unit helping to draft the 2005 general election manifesto and helping manage the party’s policy making process.

John Jerrim is a Professor of Education and Social Statistics at the University College London Institute of Education. He is a significant contributor to the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and became the first recipient of the ESRC Early Career Outstanding Impact award. The OECD Programme has been conducted tri-annually since 2000 and aims not only to publicise the success of teaching and learning in individual nations, but also to investigate the reasons for their success and share best practice with the rest of the world.

Dame Sue was the headteacher of Lampton School in Hounslow from 1997 to 2015, transforming it into an outstanding school. Dame Sue also worked as a National Leader of Education and as project manager for some of London’s most challenging and complex schools. From 2011 to 2014 Sue served as a Non- Executive Director at the DFE and also served on the Future Leaders and Teaching Leaders Boards. Sue is also Chair of the Brilliant Club Board of Trustees, a Teach First Innovation Partner and Executive Director of Challenge Partners.

Kelvin is a graduate from SOAS, University of London and BPP University Law School, and is a Global Management Trainee at AB InBev, the multinational beverage company. He was on two Sutton Trust programmes (Pathways to Law and Pathways Plus). At university, Kelvin was elected President of the university’s Law Society, representing over 400 members. He successfully secured new sponsorships for SOAS-exclusive events, in addition to introducing constitutional reforms to the society’s leadership and committee structure. He was also a Brand Ambassador for a leading City firm.

Ann has been Digital Publishing Director & Editor TES since September 2013. She started her career as a music titles and joined TES’s sister publication the Times Higher Education Supplement in 1994. She held a number of roles at the newspaper and helped it relaunch as the Times Higher Education magazine in 2008. She served as the magazine’s editor between May 2008 and January 2012.

Anna is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely on widening participation in higher education, social mobility, and on the socio-economic gap in pupil achievement. Anna has advised the Department for Education, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and HM Treasury. Anna is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education.

Shearer is Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Nottingham, a Professor of Art History and has also held a number of significant leadership roles in universities and higher education. In 2008 Shearer was appointed Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council where she also chaired the Research Directors Group for Research Councils UK. Shearer has authored and edited many articles and nine books and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Historical Society, and has held two visiting Fellowships at Yale University. She was the first in her family to attend University.

Yasmin is a first-year medical student at Imperial College London. She attended the Cardiff Medicine Sutton Trust Summer School in 2019. Coming from a low-income background, she appreciates the importance of social mobility and access to higher education. She has been involved with Sutton Trust as an Alumni Advisor. She also sings in the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, plays in orchestras and fundraises for charities. 

Stephanie is a Global Leadership Fellow and Practice Lead in the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence team. She holds a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and completed her master’s degree in Global Affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University. She grew up on a farm in rural Lincolnshire.

Roger grew up in Aberystwyth, Wales, and attended the 2008 Sutton Trust programme at the University of Cambridge, from which he graduated. He has since moved between the public and private sector, and between the UK, New Zealand and Latvia. He is currently living in London, working for the Joint Biosecurity Centre.  

Rory is studying MSc Global Politics at the London School of Economics. Prior to that, he completed a BSc in Political Economy at King’s College London, during which time he spent three years working in the UK Parliament, advised the European Commission as a Young leader of Industry, and stood as a 19-year-old Parliamentary Candidate in the 2017 General Election. He sits on Amnesty International’s first ever Youth Task Force and work on social impact projects as a member of the London Global Shapers hub – an initiative of the World Economic Forum.

Last year, he was recognised by Target Jobs as one of the UK’s Top 10 Undergraduates of the Year for Impactful Social Action, from over 4500 applicants. In 2014 he attended the Sutton Trust’s Economics Programme at the University of Cambridge. He is also on the Civil Service’s Fast Stream graduate programme, the first year of which he’ll spend in the Department of Health and Social Care.  

Lucy is a Brand Strategy Consultant at Lippincott and an independent musician. She was a participant on the Sutton Trust’s US programme and won a scholarship to attend Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from which she holds a BA in Political Science and English.  

Originally from the North East of England, Dan attended a Sutton Trust Summer School in 2007 and went on to read Medicine at the University of Manchester. He graduated with a first class BSc in Pharmacology & Physiology, partly thanks to a Wolfson Scholarship, alongside his MB ChB (Hons) in 2014. He is currently working as an Anaesthetic Registrar in London. Outside of clinical work, he has a passion for mentorship, education and championing social mobility. 

Laura graduated in 2015 from the University of St Andrews with a BSc in Biochemistry after attending the Sutton Trust Summer School there in 2010. Laura went onto work in admissions and now manages their widening access team running a range of activities throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK.

Zoe is a strategic advisor and certified coach who has spent a decade working in strategic and operational talent roles within technology companies, startups and venture capital. Zoe is currently Talent Partner at EQT Ventures, a global multi-stage VC firm where she supports the investment team and portfolio companies to attract, select and develop people. Previously Zoe was part of the founding team at talent-investor Entrepreneur First (EF) where she built the global talent function, and has also worked in talent roles at Mind Candy and Apple. Zoe is passionate about diversifying the leadership landscape in tech. 

Pooja is Policy & Communications Advisor at the Royal College of Medicine. She previously held policy roles in think tanks and charities, and started her career working as a history teacher. Pooja holds an MSc Social Policy (Research) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a PGCE from the University of Warwick, and BA (Hons) in History, Government and International Affairs from Durham University.

Jouja is Collaboration & Synergy Executive at Regenerative Investment. She holds a BA in Political Science and Human Rights from Barnard College, Columbia University and a MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. She is a proud alum of both the Sutton Trust’s US and UK programmes.

Matt is a first generation Polish immigrant and the first in his family to go on to higher education. Matt recently graduated from LSE with a law degree and is due to commence his training contract with Allen & Overy in September 2019. He is interested in politics, fitness, development and travelling, and is passionate about social mobility.

Daniel is in his fourth year studying Physics at the University of St Andrews. Prior to this he completed the Sutton Trust summer school at UCL.  He is currently based in Scotland, but was born in Afghanistan and raised in Grays, UK. He has experience in Investment banking, PE consulting and has launched a tech-based mobility start-up which has recently completed its first seed round.  

Farouk currently works as a portfolio manager investing in Africa and the Middle East. Prior to returning to the UK in 2019, Farouk was based in the Middle East for ten years where he was in charge of regional investments for the Saudi pension fund, as well as heading an investment research team for a local firm.  Farouk started his career in London at Lehman Brothers and subsequently Nomura looking at European equities. Farouk holds a MA degree in Economics and Management from Cambridge University. Farouk was born and raised in Lancashire and took part in the Sutton Summer School in 2001 where he spent a week at Cambridge University in the Economics programme. 

Elliott is a Senior Policy Advisor at HM Treasury, working in the government’s Public Services Group. He was a participant on the Sutton Trust’s inaugural US programme in 2012. With the Trust’s support, Elliott obtained significant financial aid to attend Middlebury College in Vermont, from which he holds a BA in Political Science.

Joel is an adviser on education reform, currently working for the Greater London Authority. He has previously worked for the education technology company Jisc, and the Policy Connect think tank. Joel has an MA in Educational Planning, Economics & International Development from UCL, and a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford.

Tom is a Policy Advisor at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, working within the EU Engagement Team as part of EU Strategy and Relations. He has an active interest in community work and social action, with a passion to boost social mobility across the UK and end education inequality.

Before joining the Civil Service, Tom was an experienced teacher and middle leader in West Yorkshire. He completed Teach First’s Leadership Development Programme in 2019. As a teacher, he worked with the UK Parliament to develop pupils’ understand of Parliament and democracy, and became an accredited UK Parliament Gold Teacher Ambassador.

As an undergraduate, Tom studied Law at Newcastle University. He completed the Pathways to Law Programme in 2013 (at the University of Nottingham) and the Pathways to Law Plus Programme in 2014-15. Tom has a Masters in Educational Leadership, where his research focussed on how Science teaching can be improved to meet the growing gap in STEM skills and increase ‘Science capital’ in disadvantaged areas. He also has a National Professional Qualification in Middle Leadership.

Josiah is a BCL Candidate at the University of Oxford, where he studies as a 4 New Square Scholar. He recently graduated from Harvard University as the youngest Kennedy scholar to study the LLM in over 10 years. He studied law at the LSE as a Lord Benson Scholar where he graduated with numerous academic prizes and is a published independent researcher in leading UK private law journals including the OJLS and LMCLQ. He currently teaches contract law at the LSE, has co-founded a food-tech start-up and works in the M&A and Strategy team of a unicorn fin-tech. He is state school educated, grew up in North-East London and attended the UK Summer School at the University of Cambridge in 2015.

Elle is a Northerner hailing from Doncaster and is now residing in London, UK. She was first introduced to the Sutton Trust in 2015, when she travelled to MIT on the US Programme. Since then,  she has fallen completely in love with the states and recently graduated as a Robertson Scholar from Duke University, with Honors in History and Political Science. Having now returned across the pond, she works with a fantastic team at Amazon, specializing in Business Development. From advocating for social mobility to it’s data-driven research, the Trust’s work is invaluable to society and she is so honoured to be a part of that contribution through the Alumni Leadership Board.’ 

Dani is an MChem Chemistry student at the University of Oxford despite attending a failing secondary school in North Yorkshire. He is passionate about youth social action and widening access to higher education. At university, he is JCR President at Worcester College and is a Chemistry Outreach Ambassador for the Salters’ Institute. He attended the Chemistry Summer School in 2019 at Imperial College London.