Directors and staff
Individual directors are free to exempt themselves from discussion and/or decision on specific issues. Trust support for a particular organisation, campaign or issue does not imply that every director shares that commitment.
Dr Christopher Greenfield
The Vice-Chair since 2006 and former member of the Trust staff, Christopher worked in Parliament, and has stood for Parliament on four occasions in the Liberal interest, most recently in 2001. He is a qualified teacher, but served for four years as Quaker Middle East Secretary in the 1980s. He then became Headmaster of a Quaker school in North Somerset for eleven years before taking up his present position as Principal of an International College in Dorset. He has served as an elected member of four local authorities, and was elected as the Chairman of the national Boarding Schools Association (of 500 Boarding schools) for 2009/10.
Mandy Cormack
Mandy Cormack's career and interests span national and international public and corporate affairs. Mandy studied International Relations at the London School of Economics during which time she was the founder chair of the Liberal Party's campaign for electoral reform. After studying Business Administration at Harvard, Mandy combined working on corporate communications, research and venture capital projects with building the Liberal Democrats regional media network in the run up to the 1992 General Election.
Mandy joined Unilever in 1996, where she was responsible for leading the review of the company's approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and for developing the company's corporate outreach projects with Oxfam and UNICEF. Since 2005, Mandy has been an independent advisor on international CSR practice guiding compnaies on the implemention of corporate responsibility and sustainability strategies.
Dr Peadar Cremin
Professor Peadar Cremin works in the field of teacher education. Based in Ireland, he has been involved with innovation in teacher education in a range of European counties and has researched development and environmental issues in Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe), in the Middle East and in Latin America.
Peadar was the inaugural Chair of the development agency, 80:20, Educating and Acting for a Better World, and has also been a member of the Ireland Committee of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. He is currently Chair of Ireland Aid's Development Education Advisory Committee and is a member of the Board of the Irish Peace Institute.
Tina Day
Tina Day has worked as an academic, education administrator and for national organisations representing the interests of academics, consumers and local authorities.
Tina also has extensive experience of health issues and is a trained teacher and qualified counsellor. Tina is a Quaker and has recently returned from sabbatical in New Zealand.
Pam Giddy
Born in Coventry, Pam studied Law at the LSE. Her first job was with Charter88, in 1990, where she launched the Violations of Rights series of publications. She left to join Cosmopolitan magazine in 1993 as Careers and News Editor and then moved to BBC Newsnight where she worked as a producer, looking after its political coverage and launching a series of films exploring issues of social exclusion. In March 1999 she rejoined Charter88 as the new and first female Director, launching a number of initiatives, including a major campaign for reform of the House of Lords. She remained with Charter88 until the birth of her first child in 2001.
In November 2004 Pam launched the POWER Inquiry to understand why the decline in popular participation and involvement in formal politics has occurred and to provide concrete and innovative proposals to reverse the trend. Pam is also a member of the Ofcom Content Board.
Archy Kirkwood (Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope)
Archy Kirkwood was Chair of the Trust from 1999 to 2006. He was educated at Cranhill School and Heriot-Watt University, before becoming a lawyer and a partner in a firm of solicitors in Hawick. He was MP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire for twenty-two years, standing down at the May 2005 General Election. First elected in June 1983, he became the Liberal Party's spokesman on Health, Social Services and Social Security. In 1992 he became the Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party. In 1997 Archy became Chair of the Social Security Select Committee (now Work & Pension Committee). He served on the House of Commons Audit Committee and on the House of Commons Commission and was knighted in 2003 for services to Parliament. Archy was made a life peer in 2005. He became a lay member of the General Medical Council in 2009.
Andrew Neal
Andrew Neal was born in Hastings and graduated from the University of York with a masters degree in political philosophy. He went on to train as an accountant and is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Between 1987 and 2003, he worked for Unilever in the UK and the Netherlands in a variety of finance and management roles. He is now Director of Finance and Resources for Lancaster University. Andrew was appointed as a director of the Trust in October 2008.
Complete list of Directors past and present (PDF 26KB)
Staff
The Trust office, based in York, is staffed by:
- Tina Walker (Trust Secretary)
- Mark Ross (Project Adviser)
- Gael Bayliss (Administrative Secretary)