Trustees

• Peter Clegg - Chair

  

  Peter Clegg established the architectural firm Feilden Clegg Bradley with Richard Feilden, Jamie’s father, in 1978. The practice has since become extremely well established, winning the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2008 for Accordia in Cambridge, the first ever residential development to win the award. Peter was educated at Cambridge and Yale and he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. He has 30 years' experience in low energy architecture and the architecture of schools. Peter has an invaluable understanding of the impact the built and natural environment has on students.

• Sally Coates

  

  Sally Coates is Principal of Burlington Danes Academy an 11 – 18 Ark Academy in Hammersmith & Fulham. The school has 51% free school meals and mostly serves the very deprived White City Estate, doubling GCSE grades within two years to 75% 5A* - C. She is also acting as Executive Principal at Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton.

  Sally is currently chairing The Review of the Teaching Standards and has also served as a member of the Key Stage 2 Test Review Committee under the chairmanship of Lord Bew .

   

• Jonathan Dimbleby

  

  Jonathan was educated at Charterhouse School and at University College, London where he read Philosophy (BA Hons) and where he is a Fellow. As a writer, broadcaster and film-maker, he has covered crises, conflicts and disasters in more than 80 countries. In 1973 he won BAFTA's Richard Dimbleby Award for his coverage of the famine in Ethiopia. He presents Any Questions? and Any Answers? for BBC Radio 4, and was ITV's anchorman for the 1997, 2001 and 2005 general elections. 

  Among his charitable commitments he has been President of the Soil Association, President of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), Chairman of Index and Censorship, Chairman of the Susan Chilcott Scholarship and Trustee of Dimbleby Cancer Care.

• Roderick James

  

  Rod qualified as an architect in 1973 and quickly established himself in the world of sustainable architecture as the first Director of the Centre for Alternative Technology, the leading eco-centre in Europe. In 1980, he started out in his own, setting up Roderick James & Company. He also became a Trustee and Director of the Society for Environmental Improvement in the same year and was on the Boat and Shoreworks committee of the RNLI for 10 years. He has established several successful businesses including Roderick James Architects LLP, Carpenter Oak Ltd and Adventure Capital Ltd.

• David Townsend - Finance

  

  David has spent the vast majority of his working life in Banking. After taking a degree in economics and politics he joined Barclays where he worked for 25 years in a multitude of roles, eventually specialising in risk management where amongst other things he was responsible for the risk measurement system, the Basel 2 programme and chairman of the credit committee. He moved to Standard Chartered bank in 2004 as group Head of Risk Management and Reporting from where he retired earlier this year. He now divides his time primarily between risk related research and training oarsmen for the 2012 Olympics.