Advisors to the Ogden Trust

Sir DAVID BELL
Worth School; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA), University of Pennsylvania (MA)
Chairman of Financial Times and director of Pearson plc
After two years with Oxford Mail and Times 1970-72, spent rest of career with FT (news editor, international editor, managing editor, chief executive) before and since acquisition by Pearson
Trusteeships/memberships: Ambache Chamber Orchestra (director), International Youth Foundation (Chairman), Common Purpose Europe, INSEAD (UK Council member), Millennium Bridge Trust (Chairman)
 
PROFESSOR SIR KENNETH CALMAN KCB, FRSE
Allan Glens School, Glasgow; University of Glasgow (BSc, MB ChB, PhD, MD)
Vice-Chancellor and Warden, University of Durham
Former Lecturer in Surgery, Professor of Oncology and Dean of Postgraduate Medicine at Glasgow University; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland 1989-1991 and England 1991-1998
Trusteeships/memberships: Macmillan Cancer Relief (board member)
 
CLARE FRANCIS MBE
Royal Ballet School; University College London (BSc Econ)
Novelist (1980- )
Author and TV/radio presenter 1976-82, former yachtswoman
Single-handed transatlantic crossing 1973; first woman home, Observer Single-handed transatlantic Race 1976; first woman skipper in Whitbread Round The World Race
Trusteeships/memberships: Government Advisory Committee on Public Lending Right (Chairman), Society of Authors (ex-Chairman), Action for ME (Trustee and Founding President)
 
MARTYN LEWIS CBE
Dalriada GS, Ballymoney NI; Trinity College Dublin (BA)
Former presenter, foreign correspondent and newsreader with ITN 1970-1986 and BBC 1986-1999; writer and producer of documentaries. Chairman of Teliris and Chairman of NICE TV
YouthNet UK (Chairman and Founder)
The Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust (Chairman)
The Windsor Leadership Trust (Trustee)
United Response (President)
Help the Hospices, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Macmillan Cancer Care and several individual hospices (Vice-President)
For Dementia (Patron)
The Tomorrow Project (Patron)
 
LADY OGDEN (CATHERINE)
Convent Grammar School, Rochdale; Kirkby Fields College of Education, Liverpool
Taught in UK and US after teacher training
Trusteeship/memberships: Emmaus, INLI, The Ogden Trust
 
JUDITH PORTRAIT
St Paul's Girls' School; St Hugh's College, Oxford (MA)
Senior Trust and Charity Lawyer
Trusteeships/memberships: legal adviser to and trustee of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts including the Gatsby Charitable Foundation; Treasurer of the Henry Smith Charity; advisor to Cambridge University's Challenge Fund
 
PROFESSOR SIR MARTIN REES FRS
Shrewsbury School; Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Professor of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, former Professor at Sussex University and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge
Trusteeships/memberships: British Museum, NESTA, Kennedy Memorial Trust, Victor Rothschild Memorial Trust (Chairman), Academia Europea, Harvard (Visiting Professor), foreign or honorary member of various national Academies of Arts and Sciences including USA, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, India and Netherlands
 
JONATHAN RUDOE
Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree; St Catharine's College, Cambridge (MA); Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1 yr graduate course in Government funded by the Ogden Trust)
Bain & Company, Management Consultants, 2000-2002
Smedvig Capital, Venture Capital, 2002-2004
MBA at Harvard Business School 2004-2006
 
SUE MARSDEN
Bolton School, University of Manchester (BA)
Fundraising consultant, Principal of PFC (Professional Fundraising Consultancy). Author of 'Capital Fundraising for Schools', columnist on educational fundraising for Professional Fundraising journal, co-ordinator of the 'Certificate in School Fundraising' Course
Trusteeship/membership: Director and Trustee of Bolton Lads' & Girls' Club, member of Blackpool Grand Theatre Companies, member of the Institute of Fundraising, former Director of the Association of Fundraising Consultants