Trustees

Professor Rhind CBE FRS FBA

Professor David Rhind was appointed Chairman in 2010. He has been a Trustee since 2008.

Professor Rhind is also Chair of the government’s Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information and Chair of Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust Board. He is also a board member of the UK Statistics Authority and has previously held posts as a Director on the Court of the Bank of England and Vice Chancellor and President of City University in London.

Until 1998, Professor Rhind was Director General of the Ordnance Survey and oversaw the creation of the world’s first national digital topographic database. He has been a member of the Economic and Social Research Council and Chaired the Academy of Social Sciences’ Commission on the Social Sciences.

Professor Rhind holds the rare distinction of being both an elected Fellow of the Royal Society and an honorary Fellow of the British Academy.

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Professor Genevra Richardson CBE, FRA, LLB, LLM, FBA, HonFRCPsych

Professor Genevra Richardson joined the Foundation as Trustee in 2002. She is Professor at the School of Law, King's college and her academic interests are law and medicine, particularly law and psychiatry. 

Professor Richardson is Chair of the Medical Research Foundation, the Medical Research Council's independent charity. She is also a member of the Council on Tribunals and the Steering Committee of the UK Stem Cell Bank.  

She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Mental Health Law and the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry.

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Professor Sir David Watson MA PhD

Professor Sir David Watson is an historian and Principal of Green Templeton College Oxford. He was appointed Trustee of the Foundation in 2005.

Professor Watson is President of the Society for Research into Higher Education, a Companion of the Institute of Management, and a National Teaching Fellow.

He was previously Professor of Higher Education Management at the Institute of Education, University of London, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton.

David was a member of the Council for National Academic Awards, the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He was also a member of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's National Commission on Education, and the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education.

He is a former chair of both the Universities Association for Continuing Education and the Longer Term Strategy Group of Universities UK. He chaired the national Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, and co-authored its report Learning Through Life.

David was knighted for services to higher education in 1998 and in 2009 received the Times Higher Education Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Lord Krebs Kt, MA, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci, Hon DSc 

Lord Krebs has been Principal of Jesus College, Oxford since 2005. Prior to this, he was Chairman of the UK Food Standards Agency (2000-2005), and Chief Executive for the Natural Environment Research Council (1994-1999). Lord Krebs was appointed Trustee in 2008.

A zoologist by training, Lord Krebs was a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford from 1988-2005. In 2007 he chaired the working party of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' report on the Ethics of Public Health. 

Lord Krebs sits in the House of Lords as an independent cross-bencher and is a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee. He is Chairman of the UK Science and Technology Honours Committee and Chairman of the Royal Society's Science Policy Advisory Group. He sits on the UK Climate Change Committee and chair its Adaptation Sub-Committee. 

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Andrew Dilnot CBE

Andrew Dilnot has been Principal of St Hugh’s College Oxford since 2002, and a Pro Vice Chancellor at Oxford since 2005. He has been a Trustee since June 2009 and in July 2010 was appointed chair of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support.

An economist by training, Andrew was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002. He is also heavily involved in the debate about the use and understanding of statistics. He was the founding presenter of BBC Radio 4’s series on mathematics and statistics, More or Less. He has been the Chairman of the Statistics Users Forum since 2009.

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Professor Terrie Moffitt PhD FBA FMedSci

Professor Moffitt was appointed Trustee in 2010. She is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University in North Carolina and Professor of Social Behaviour and Development at the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. 

She is also Associate Director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a cohort of 1,000 people born in 1972 in New Zealand, and directs the Environmental-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study, which follows 1,100 British families with twins born in 1994-1995.

Professor Moffitt is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, the British Academy, Academia Europaea and King's College London. 

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Dr Colette Bowe

Colette was appointed Trustee in December 2011. She is Chairman of communications regulator Ofcom, and a founder and former chairman of its Consumer Panel. She is also Chairman of Electra Private Equity plc, and a Board Member of Axa Deutschland GmBH, and the UK Statistics Authority. Colette is also a Governor of Bancrofts School, and trustee of the Tablet Trust.

She began her career at the Department of Trade and Industry, before undertaking senior roles at the former Independent Broadcasting Authority and the Securities and Investment Board.

Colette was formerly Chief Executive of the Personal Investment Authority and Executive chairman of Fleming Fund Management. She has a PhD in economics from Queen Mary College, where she was later appointed Chairman of the College Council. She is a former member of the board of management of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research.

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