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The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was established
under the National Heritage Act 1983 and came into existence on 8 August
1983. From 1 April 1984 responsibility for many aspects of the Royal
Botanic
Gardens, Kew was transferred from the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food (now DEFRA) to the Board of Trustees.
Trustees
Lord Selborne - Chairman
Mr Marcus Agius
Ms Tanya Burman
Mr Andrew Cahn
Mr Richard Deverell
Professor Jonathan Drori CBE
Professor H Charles J Godfray
Professor Sandy Harrison
Mr Timothy Hornsby
Mr Richard Lapthorne CBE
Mr George Loudon
Sir William Stewart FRS
Biographies and Photographs
Lord Selborne - Chairman |
| is Chairman of Blackmoor Estate
Limited, a farming and horticultural business in Hampshire. He
has held many positions in the public and private sector.
He is Chair of The Foundation for Science and Technology.
Previous posts include Chair of the House of Lords Sub Committee
D (Environment, Agriculture, Public Health and Consumer
Protection), President of the Royal Geographical Society,
Chair of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and
Chair of the Agricultural and Food Research Council.
He was a Trustee of RBG, Kew, from 1993 to 1998 and is
a Trustee of both the John Innes Foundation and the Lawes
Agricultural Trust at Rothamsted. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. |
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Mr Marcus Agius |
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has extensive City and commercial experience and joined Lazard in London in 1972 where he became Chairman of Lazard London in 2001 and Deputy Chairman of Lazard LLC in 2002. Mr Agius became Chairman of BAA plc in 2002. He resigned from both Lazard and BAA plc in 2006 and became Chairman of Barclays PLC on 1st January 2007. On 1st December 2006 he was appointed Senior Independent Director of the BBC. Mr Agius holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is Chairman of the Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. |
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Ms Tanya Burman |
| formerly Head of Development and Marketing at the
Natural History Museum and currently a full time mother and a local
resident. She has also been Regional Director for the Royal Marsden
Hospital Cancer Appeal and Fund Manager for Lombard Odier, a private
Swiss bank. Educated at Cambridge University, she has an MA in Natural
Sciences and specialised in plant biochemistry. Her interests include
gardening, sailing and walking. |
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Mr Andrew Cahn |
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Chief Executive of UK Trade & Investment
. He was previously Director of Government and Industry Affairs at British Airways. Much of his career has been in the public
service. He began in the former Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food and moved to the Cabinet Office, the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the European Commission
as Chef de Cabinet. His interests include mountains, gardens, the
European Union and sport. |
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Mr Richard Deverell |
| is responsible for all the BBC's services for children. He was previously Head of BBC News Interactive - responsible for
the BBC News websites, BBC Policy and Planning. Prior to joining the BBC Richard worked for several years in management
consultancy for the LEK partnership. He read Natural Science at
Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is married with two children and
his interests include natural history, current affairs and triathlons. |
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Professor Jonathan
Drori CBE |
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is Director of Changing Media Ltd, a London consulting group.
He is also Visiting Professor at Bristol University, (specialising
in misconceptions in science and in the uses of technology for
learning), and adviser to public bodies on new media and audience
strategies. Previously he was Director of Culture Online at the
Department for Culture Media and Sport. At the BBC he was
Head of Commissioning for BBC Online and before that, Head of Digital
Media and Learning Channels. As an Executive Producer and Director,
he was responsible for many television series in science, education
and the arts. Interests include cultural and economic uses
of plants and fungi. |
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Professor Charles
Godfray FRS |
| is Hope Professor in the Zoology Department and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University. Until 2006 he was Director of the NERC Centre for Population Biology and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an honorary research fellow of the Natural History Museum and Rothamsted Research. He has joint UK & New Zealand citizenship and his interests include gardening (specialising in New Zealand plants), natural history, opera and walking. |
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Professor Sandy
Harrison |
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is Professor of Climate Dynamics in Geographical Sciences at the University
of Bristol. She has a special interest in how the terrestrial biosphere
has modulated regional climate changes in the past and the future.
She is a member of the Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate
(TOPC) of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and Global
Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS), Vice-President of the INQUA
Commission on Palaeoclimatology, on the Scientific Steering Committee
for the Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP),
and on the Scientific Steering Committee for the IGBP-GAIM initiative
for an Earth System Atlas. |
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Mr Timothy Hornsby |
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is currently the Chair of the Horniman Museum, Chair of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association, and Chair of the Harkness Fellows Association. He is a Commissioner (and previous Chair) of the National Lottery Commission, and an independent member of the Consumer Council for Water. He is a Trustee of the International Institute for Environment and Development and of the Charles Darwin Trust. He is a Governor and Chair of the Grants Committee of the Legacy Trust. In his previous career he occupied the Chief Executive posts at the National Lottery Charities Board (now the Big Lottery Fund), the Royal Borough of Kingston, and the Nature Conservancy Council, after a career in academic life and subsequently in the higher Civil service. |
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Mr Richard
Lapthorne CBE |
| is Non-executive Chairman of Cable & Wireless plc, Morse
plc and New Look Ltd. He is a Trustee of Calibre, a charity providing recorded books, and of Tommy's campaign. |
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Mr George Loudon |
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is Chairman and Director of a number of investment and other firms including Pall Mall Capital Ltd and Altius Associates Ltd; former Director of Midland Bank Plc and former Vice-Chairman of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Director of the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation. Board member of the Rijksakademie Beeldende Kunst (Amsterdam) and former Trustee of the Galapagos Conservation Trust. Educated at Balliol College Oxford and Johns Hopkins University in America. |
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Sir
William Stewart FRS |
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a former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government and the first
Head of the Office of Science of Technology. He is currently Chairman
of the Health Protection Agency. A botanist by initial training,
he was founding Professor of Biological Sciences at the University
of Dundee, Secretary of the Agricultural and Food Research Council,
member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, President
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, President
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a vice-President of the Royal
Society. Educated at Dunoon Grammar School and Glasgow University,
he holds numerous honorary degrees and fellowships. His interests include
watching people and plants.
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