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Jillian Barker

22 October 2025

Driven by a passion for inspiring creativity and overcoming the lack of equity in the arts, Jillian Barker is a strong advocate or widening access to the arts and creative learning. She has held leadership positions in cultural organisations of national and international significance including English Touring Opera, the Arts Council, Barbican Centre, National Gallery […]

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Christophe Kasolowsky

22 October 2025

Christophe is a Chartered Management Accountant and a Partner at Baringa where he advises CFOs on Finance Transformation and Innovation. Prior to this he was an equity partner at EY and Chief Product Officer at Aptitude Software. He is currently chair of the Stile Antico Foundation and a trustee of the Rachel Podger Foundation. Christophe […]

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Ian Karet

22 October 2025

Ian is a Solicitor specialising in Intellectual Property and Technology. He sits as a Deputy High Court Judge and also as an arbitrator. He will join the board of the Fundraising Regulator in 2026 and has sat on the Boards of the Charity Commission and RGB Kew. He was Co-Chair of the British Museum Review […]

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James Lawrie

13 February 2024

After University at Cambridge, James Lawrie worked in investment banking from 1978–2005. He spent 16 years working overseas in Hong Kong, Singapore and the Netherlands focusing on equity issuance and M&A. Since 2006, James was Treasurer of Christ Church, an Oxford college and Cathedral. He was responsible, among other things, for Christ Church’s £750m endowment […]

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Andrew Hochhauser

1 November 2022

Andrew Hochhauser is a KC at Essex Court Chambers, a Deputy High Court Judge, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He specialises in commercial and employment litigation. He sits on the Boards of several charities, including the Samuel Courtauld Trust, which he chairs, the […]

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Suzanne Szczetnikowicz

3 November 2021

Suzanne is Director, Legal at OMERS Capital Markets. In 2014 she co-founded a grass roots network, Women in Law London (the WILL network), which she now chairs, to address the imbalance in the numbers of women reaching the top of the legal profession, both in house and in private practice. Suzanne remains passionate about the […]

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Rachel Mortimer

3 November 2021

Rachel began her career as a corporate lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills, before moving into senior leadership roles in the finance sector as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. She later transitioned to the public sector, serving as COO of the Government’s corporate finance and advisory arm, the Shareholder Executive, and later of UK Government […]

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Mike Laven

3 November 2021

An accomplished technology entrepreneur, for over 30 years Mike Laven has built companies in London and Silicon Valley as Founder, Executive, Board Member, advisor and investor. He is currently CEO of Currencycloud, one of the founding firms of the London ‘FinTech’ Revolution. Mike is on the Board of RxArt a nonprofit whose mission is to […]

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Dame Liz Forgan DBE

3 November 2021

Liz Forgan was formerly a journalist (The Evening Standard, The Guardian) and media executive (Founding editor Channel 4, MD BBC Network Radio). She has been Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council England, The Scott Trust, the Guardian Foundation, the Bristol Old Vic and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. She sings with […]

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