Associates

GDST Associates and Honorary Associates

The GDST launched its Associates with a meeting and reception at the Institute of Directors in October 2005. The first cohort of 30 women is drawn from the 45,000-strong GDST Alumnae Network of GDST alumnae: all attended a GDST school and sustained thriving careers in every sphere of business, academic and public life.

The Associates serve as an important sounding board for the charity’s future direction and strategy, as well as acting as ambassadors for the organisation.

They help to enhance the profile of the GDST and its 26 schools by acting as spokespersons on a range of issues. They also provide expertise and advice, support the Minerva Network programme in schools and in a professional networking context and back the GDST’s fundraising.

The GDST Alumnae Network currently has over 45,000 members, aged 16 to 106. A further group joined the first cohort of 30 Associates in 2006, drawn not just from alumnae but also from current and former parents, and friends of the GDST, bringing the total to near 60. Each will serve a maximum of two three-year terms.

Honorary Associates
This is how the GDST strives to acknowledge outstanding service to the Trust by individual retiring members of Council, and Chairmen of Local Governing Bodies who wish to stay in touch with the work of the GDST and the schools. Appointment is at the discretion of the Council, tenure is life-long and the role is honorary.

The full list of GDST Associates (and the GDST school with which they are linked) is:

Bridget Anderson: Managing Director, Corporate Finance Mergers & Acquisitions, Nomura (Portsmouth High School)
Pamela Baker: Director, Business Strategy, Pfizer Global Research Division
(Blackheath High School)
Stephen Barter: Group Projects Director, Grosvenor Group
(Ipswich High School/ Former Council Member)
Rosemary Beaver: Head of Worldwide Compliance, Lloyds of London
(Nottingham Girls' High School)
Lucinda Bell: Director, The British Land Corporation Ltd (South Hampstead High School)
Baroness (Virginia) Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC: Partner, Odgers Ray & Berndtson
(Putney High School)
Margaret Bryan: former UK Ambassador to Panama, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Croydon High School)
Jane Clarke: Head of Communications, Kent County Council
(Norwich High School for Girls)
Baroness (Janet) Cohen of Pimlico: Former Chairman, BPP Holdings; Non Executive Director, London Stock Exchange Plc; Non Executive Director, Management Consultancy Group Plc; President, BPP College
(South Hampstead High School)
Heidi Cooper: Managing Director, Happy Giraffe Ltd
(Brighton & Hove High School)
Susan Croft: Partner, ASC Training and Consulting
(Streatham & Clapham High School)
Hilary Douglas: Chief Operating Officer, Department for Business Enterprise & regulatory Reform (Wimbledon High School)
Hamish Easton: Investment Analyst
(Kensington Prep School)
Kate Evans: Freelance, training and consultancy (Portsmouth High School)
Samantha Eve: Director, United Through Sport (Ipswich High School)
Christine Farnish: Public Policy Director, Barclays (Ipswich High School)
Sue Farr: Chairman, Advertising and Marketing Services, Chime Communications plc
(Sheffield High School)
Professor Baroness [Ilora] Finlay of Llandaff: Vice Dean, Velindre NHS Trust
(Wimbledon High School)
Frank Gardner: Security Correspondent, BBC
(Kensington Prep School)
Baroness [Sally] Greengross: Director General, Age Concern England (Brighton & Hove High School)
Madeleine Heggs: Retired Judge
(Notting Hill & Ealing High School)
Dr Alison Hodge: University Partnerships Director
(Sydenham High School)
Beverley Hodson: Non-Executive Director, Norman Broadbent (Blackheath High School)
Nicola Horlick: Founder, Bramdean Asset Management Llp
(Birkenhead High School)
Juliet Humphries: Managing Director, Pierian Spring Consulting
(Notting Hill & Ealing High School)
William Kendall: CEO, Green and Black's Chocolate
(Ipswich High School)
Angela Knight: Chief Executive, British Bankers Association
(Sheffield High School)
Lucy Lewis (née Carter): Associate, Employment and Incentives, Lewis Silkin LLP
Lord [John] MacGregor of Pulham Market: Deputy Chairman, Governing Bodies Association (now Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools)
Anne McMeehan Roberts: Director, Cauldron Consulting
(Portsmouth High School)
Esther McVey: Director, Making It (UK) Ltd. (The Belvedere School)
Sally Muggeridge: Director and Chief Executive, Industry & Parliament Trust (South Hampstead High School)
Michelle Paul (née Bonn): Associate, New Media Law LLP
(South Hampstead High School)
Karen Pickering: former international swimmer, Ambassador for Sport for Ipswich, Vice-Chair of the British Athletes Commission
(Brighton & Hove High School)
Jane Platt: Chief Executive of National Savings and Investments
(Birkenhead High School)
Jean Rankine: former Deputy Director of the British Museum
(Central Newcastle High School)
Liz Rhodes: Consultant, National Council for Work Experience
(Royal High School, Bath)
Rear Admiral Alistair Ross: Clerk to the Drapers' Company
(link with Howell’s School)
Professor Jane Sayers: Former Professor of Archive Studies, University College London
(Notting Hill & Ealing High School)
Jan Shawe: Corporate Advisory Board, Tate Gallery (Oxford High School)
Clare Humphreys: Lawyer, UK Legal Department, Invesco Perpetual
(Shrewsbury High School, first Frederica Lord scholar)
Dame Susan Street: Permanent Secretary, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
(South Hampstead High School)
Miss Marianne Talbot, Lecturer in Philosophy, Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University
Lesley Titcomb: Senior Executive, Securities & Investment Bond(Oxford High School)

GDST Honorary Associates:
Mr Donald Angel
Mrs Victoria Maltby
Dr Peter Warren
All are former members of the GDST Council

Miss Catharine Avent
Ms Adele Biss
Mr Adam Broke
Her Hon the Judge Ann Campbell
Mr Brian Dance
Mr Christopher Fildes
Mrs Isobel Galbraith
The Hon Jill Ganzoni
Mrs Margaret Houston
Mr George Nissen
Sir Robert Pascoe
Mr James Peers
Mr Philip Ralph
Mr Neville Sims
Mrs Rosemary Smith
Mr Robert Wilson