The Baroness O'Neill CBE PBA FMedSci became the Chairman of Trustees in 1997 on the retirement of Lord Flowers. She had previously been a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and latterly its chairman. She is the President of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. Her work is mainly in political philosophy and ethics. She was made a life peer in 1999 and sits as a cross bencher.

Professor Sir Tony Atkinson has been a Trustee of the Foundation since 1995. He is Professor of Economics at University of Oxford. His particular interest is income distribution and poverty. Sir Tony serves on the Foundation's Investment Committee and takes particular responsibility for the Social Science Small Grants Scheme and the New Career Development Fellowships

Dr Peter Doyle CBE FRSE became a Trustee of the Foundation in 1998. As Executive Director of Zeneca Group plc until 1999 he was responsible for Research and Development. He was Chairman of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council until summer 2003. He is currently a non-executive director of both Syngenta AG and Avidex Ltd. He serves on the Foundation's Audit, Remuneration and Investment Committees and is supervising Trustee for the Commonwealth Programme.

Professor Richardson is Professor at the School of Law, Kings College, London. Her teaching and research interests centre mainly on administrative law, prison law and health law. She is currently a member of the Council on Tribunals, the Animal Procedures Committee and the Medical Research Council.

Professor Richardson joined the Foundation in 2002. She oversees the Foundation's work in Access to Justice and serves on the Child Protection and Family Justice Committee.

Sir David was Vice Chancellor of the University of Brighton (formerly Brighton Polytechnic) from 1990. He retired from the post in September 2005 and took up a new Chair at the Institute of Education, University of London.

An historian by training, Sir David has contributed widely to developments in UK higher and further education. He has been a member of numerous committees and commissions including the Dearing Committee on Higher Education, the Hamlyn Foundation’s National Commission on Education and the ESRC’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme, which he chaired. He is currently a member of the Board of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and chaired the Advisory Committee for the Foundation’s Review of Education and Training 14 - 19 in England and Wales.

Sir David became a Trustee in October 2005.

Lord Krebs has been Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, since 2005. Before this he was Chairman of the UK Food Standards Agency from 2000 to 2005, and Chief Executive for the Natural Environment Research Council between 1994 and1999. A zoologist by training, Lord Krebs was a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford from 1988-2005. In recent years he has worked at the interface between science and policy, and chaired an enquiry into the ethics of public health for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. He also serves on the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, as Chairman of the National Network of Science Learning Centres, and as a Vice President of the Royal Society. He was appointed to the House of Lords as a Cross Bencher in 2007.

Professor Rhind serves as a member of the Court of the Bank of England and is also a member of the UK Statistics Board. Recently retired as Vice Chancellor of City University and as Chairman of the Statistics Commission, he has had a long academic career as a geographer and quantitative social scientist. He was Director General and Chief Executive of the Ordnance Survey when it was the first national mapping organisation to complete entire digital map coverage of the country. He has been active in the social sciences, as a member of ESRC and in chairing the Academy of Social Sciences Commission on the Social Sciences that helped promote the issue of quantitative training for social sciences.