Trustees

The Trustees are:

Lord George of St. Tudy (Chairman of Trustees)

Lord George was appointed a Trustee in November 2003 and in July 2007 became Chairman of Trustees. He was Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 until his retirement in 2003. He is a Non-Executive Director of Nestlé AG, N.M. Rothschild & Sons Limited, Grosvenor Group Holdings Limited and Bank for International Settlements, Basel.

Simon Robertson

Simon was appointed a Trustee in December 2000. He is Chairman of Rolls Royce plc and a director of Berry Brothers & Rudd Ltd and the Economist Newspaper Ltd. He is also a director of the Royal Opera House, a Trustee of the Royal Opera House Endowment and Chairman of Trustees of the Royal Academy of Arts Trust.

Richard Cunis

Richard was appointed Trustee in 2000. He spent his working career in the insurance industry in London retiring in 1997 as Chairman of Jenner Fenton Slade Reinsurance Brokers.

He is a past Master of the Mercers’ Company and Chairman of their Education Committee. He is a Governor of St Paul’s School, St Paul’s Girls School and the Royal Ballet School in London. He is on the advisory panel of the ‘Heart of the City’, a Trustee of Lloyds Benevolent Fund and a Vice President of the British Sports Trust. He sits as a Magistrate on the City of London Bench and is a member of the Cornwall Community Foundation.

Professor Alan Livingston

Professor Alan Livingston, CBE is Principal of University College, Falmouth.

Professor Livingston trained at Ulster College of Art and Design in Graphic Design and Typography. With his wife Isabella, he co-authored The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of Graphic Design and Designers.

He is past chair of the Combined Universities in Cornwall Steering Group (CUC), and chair of Arts Council England, South West.

He is a member of the Royal Mail Stamp Advisory Committee, London and Cornwall's Objective One Post-2006 Strategy Group.

Professor Livingston was awarded the CBE for Services to Higher Education in January 2006.  His interests are contemporary art, 20th century ceramics, all types of sport and walking.

Sir John Rose

Sir John Rose, Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce plc.

Sir John Rose joined Rolls-Royce plc in 1984 and was appointed to its Board of Directors in January 1992, becoming Chief Executive on 1 May 1996.

Sir John is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Past-President of the European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA) and a Past-President of the Society of British Aerospace Companies.

He is a member of the JP Morgan International Council, the CBI International Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Economic Development Board of Singapore, The Emirates Foundation, the Englefield Advisory Board and the European Round Table of Industrialists.

Born in Blantyre, Malawi, John earned his MA degree in Psychology from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.  His interests include the visual arts, world music, adventurous travel, scuba diving, sailing and skiing. He has a home in the West Country.

Anthony Salz

Anthony was appointed a Trustee in December 2000. Until December 2005 he was Co-Senior Partner at the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Since 2006 he has been an Executive Vice Chairman at Rothschild, the international investment bank. Anthony has been Vice Chairman of the BBC since 2004. He is a member of the Tate Gallery’s Corporate Advisory Group (Chairman from 1997 to 2002) and is a Trustee of Tate Foundation.

He is a Trustee of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and a director of Habitat for Humanity GB, a homelessness charity. He is a member of the Advisory Panel to The Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue and a member of Business in the Community’s Education Leadership team.

Lucy Parker

Lucy Parker was appointed a Trustee in August 2007 and is Chair of the Talent and Enterprise Taskforce set up by the Prime Minister in the autumn of 2007 to encourage and develop the many forms of talent and creativity needed for the future prosperity of Britain. Previously Lucy was Chief Executive of Cantos Communications, a pioneer in video online communications for major corporates, with over a third of the FTSE100 amongst its clients and an established audience in financial institutions worldwide.  In the early 1990s she founded Trinity Management Communications, specialising in executive coaching and leadership communications for business. She was a General Trainee with the BBC and spent fifteen years as a documentary producer and director, including with the Community Programme Unit.  Lucy began her career as a teacher and performer in theatre-in-education.  She founded Shiftwork, a documentary-theatre company which devised shows with young people telling their own story on stage at the Old Vic and the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. Lucy is a graduate of Cambridge University and did a Masters degree in New York University in educational theatre and broadcasting on an ITT Scholarship.  She was awarded Churchill Fellowship to study innovative theatre in Japan.