Board of Trustees
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Chris Powell
Chris Powell is NESTA's Chairman. He also chairs the Institute of Public Policy Research's think tank and the British Council's creative industries advisory group. He is a board member of United Business Media plc and Riverside Studios.
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Sir Michael Barber
Michael Barber joined McKinsey in September 2005 as the expert partner in its Global Public Sector Practice. In this capacity, he has been working on major transformations of public services, especially education, in the USA, UK and other countries.
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Professor Marc Clement
Professor Marc Clement is a prize-winning theoretical physics graduate with a PhD in Laser Plasma Interactions from the University of Wales, Swansea and the Rutherford Laboratory at Oxford. He is Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales.
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Dr Stuart Cosgrove
Dr Stuart Cosgrove is Channel 4’s Director of Nations and Regions. Since joining Channel 4 in 1994 the broadcaster has won numerous international awards for dramas, documentaries and entertainment shows he has commissioned.
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Sherry Coutu
Sherry Coutu is non-executive director at RM plc, New Energy Finance Limited and The Library House Limited. Her interests include investing in, and advising, early-stage companies.
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Professor Stephen Emmott
Stephen Emmott is director and founder of Microsoft Corp’s European Science Initiative, which is focused on research at the intersection of computing and the sciences and aims to enable and accelerate “new kinds” of science and computing.
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Andrew Flanagan
In his most recent executive post, Andrew Flanagan was Chief Executive of SMG plc, one of the UK's leading media companies. From 1981-6 he was a financial analyst and then Manager of Financial Control at ITT Europe Inc.
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Jitesh Gadhia
Jitesh Gandhia is a Managing Director of ABN AMRO Corporate Finance, advising on mergers and acquisitions. Previously he was head of a fund management company, operating a unit trust and, during 1999-2000, was a Sloan Fellow at London Business School.
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Professor Julia Goodfellow
Professor Julia Goodfellow is Vice Chancellor at the University of Kent. Previously, she was Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
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Dr Tracy Long
Dr Tracy Long is the founder of Boardroom Review, a specialised consultancy that advises boards of directors and trustees on their board performance and effectiveness.
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Patrick McKenna
Founder and Chairman of Ingenious Media plc., Patrick started his career in accounting and became a Partner in Deloitte and Touche when he was 28 and ran their Media and Entertainment Group from 1985-90.
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Nick Starr
Nick Starr is Executive Director of the National Theatre (NT) of Great Britain, appointed in 2002 to run the NT alongside Nicholas Hytner. He is also Chair of Battersea Arts Centre (BAC).
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Professor Kathy Sykes
Professor Kathy Sykes is Professor of Sciences and Society at Bristol University. She has a background in science communication and has helped to create, among other things, a new Festival of Science in Cheltenham, and Famelab.