About us

Board of Trustees

Nesta is governed by a Board of Trustees. New trustees are selected and appointed by the trustees themselves. Our aim is to have a Board of twelve trustees and we are currently in the final stages of appointing four new trustees, through a specialist recruitment agency.

Board of Trustees

Image of Sir John Chisholm Sir John Chisholm
Chairman
—Read more about Sir John Chisholm

Image of Madeleine Atkins Madeleine Atkins
Madeleine Atkins is Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University.
—Read more about Madeleine Atkins

Image of Dame Julie Mellor Dame Julie Mellor, DBE
Julie led pwc's health consulting practice in London and is currently the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman
—Read more about Dame Julie Mellor, DBE

Image of Sir John Gieve Sir John Gieve
Sir John Gieve is the Chairman of VocaLink
—Read more about Sir John Gieve

Image of Michelle Harrison Dr Michelle Harrison
Michelle Harrison is the CEO of TNS BMRB
—Read more about Dr Michelle Harrison

Image of Jitesh Ghadia at NESTA Jitesh Gadhia
Jitesh is a Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group
—Read more about Jitesh Gadhia

Image of Kersten England Kersten England
Kersten is Chief Executive of City of York Council
—Read more about Kersten England

Image of John Sheldrick John Sheldrick
John is a non-executive director of GKN plc and on the boards of Catalyst Housing Group and The Abbeyfield Society.
—Read more about John Sheldrick

Image of Kim Shillinglaw Kim Shillinglaw
Kim Shillinglaw is the BBC’s Commissioning Editor for Science and Natural History, and Head of 3D
—Read more about Kim Shillinglaw

Image of Nick Starr Nick Starr
Nick Starr is Executive Director of the National Theatre
—Read more about Nick Starr

Image of Rob Woodward at NESTA Rob Woodward
Rob Woodward is CEO of STV Group plc.
—Read more about Rob Woodward