Alumni Advisory Board Members
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Wolfson, Honorary Fellow)
- Chair, Alumni Advisory Board.
- Installed as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on 1 October 2010.
- Previously Chief Executive of the UK's Medical Research Council (2007-10).
- Principal of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London 2001 to 2007 then Deputy Rector, responsible for the overall academic and scientific direction of the institution. He led the development of inter-disciplinary research between engineering, physical sciences and biomedicine.
- Lecturer in Medicine at Cambridge, 1988-90.
- Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1996 and a member of its Council from 1997 until 2002.
- Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.
Mrs Sarah Squire (Newnham, 1968, History)
- Deupty Chair, Alumni Advisory Board
- President of Hughes Hall since 2006.
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University since October 2008
- Chairman of the Management Committee of the Centre for Family Research.
- Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
- Trustee of the Cambridge Trusts.
- Chairman of the Kurt Hahn Trust.
- Member of the Faculty Board of Business and Management
- Entered HM Diplomatic Service after leaving Cambridge. Her work as a diplomat took her to Israel, Washington, Senegal, Macedonia and Croatia.
- HM Ambassador in Estonia from 2000-2003. Her focus from 1995-2006 was on the countries of Eastern Europe and former Yugoslavia.
- Member of the Advisory Board of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College, London.
Sir Paul Judge (Trinity, 1968, Natural Sciences, Management Studies)
- Chair, Communications Working Group, Alumni Advisory Board.
- President, Chartered Institute of Marketing, and Association of MBAs.
- Chairman, Schroder Income Growth Fund plc.
- Chairman, Enterprise Education Trust, Digital Links, St Dunstan's College and the North American Advisory Council at Chatham House.
- UK Chairman, British-North American Committee.
- Director, UK Accreditation Service, ENRC plc, Standard Bank Group Ltd, Tempur-Pedic Inc and Abraaj Capital.
- Member of the Council of the Crown Agents, of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Business Ethics and of the Advisory Board of the UK-India Business Council.
- Registrar, Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor.
- Alderman, City of London, Liveryman of the Marketors and of the Clothworkers.
- Trustee Emeritus, The Cambridge Foundation.
- Former Chairman of the Advisory Board, Judge Business School.
- Key Benefactor of Judge Business School.
- Member of the Guild of Cambridge Benefactors.
- Member, Trinity College Finance Committee and Alumni Advisory Committee.
- Former President of the Chartered Management Institute and Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors.
- Former Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts and of Teachers TV.
- His sons are Mr Michael Judge (Trinity, 2003, Engineering) and Mr Christopher Judge (St Catharine's, 2003, Engineering).
Dr Heinz Fuchs
"My motivation is to assist CARO as the hub of a well-functioning and lively Cambridge alumni network uniting thousands of people worldwide in over 400 groups."
- Chair, Networks & Volunteers Working Group, Alumni Relations Board.
- Secretary, the German Cambridge Society.
- Librarian, State and University Library of Lower Saxony (Göttingen); Subject Librarian; Head of Education and Training; Librarian of Lichtenberg Kolleg.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
- Former Chairman, German International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) National Committee.
- Former Chairman, IFLA Section on Interlending and Document Delivery.
- Former member of the Editorial Board, IFLA Journal.
- Member of the Advisory Board, Interlending and Document Supply.
- Former member of the Executive Committee, Association of German Librarians.
- Member of the Executive Committee, BII-International (Librarians' International Exchange Office).
- Honorary member, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
- Former Visiting Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, 1997.
- Member of the Sidney Sussex Society Committee.
Mr David Clouter (Emmanuel, 1978, Philosophy, Social and Political Sciences)
- Chair and co-founder, Cambridge Film & Media Academy (CAMFA).
- Co-founder of Cambridge University Radio (later CAM-FM) in 1979.
- 15 years' experience at BBC Radio Four. Subsequently co-founded (with BBC radio personality Richard Hope-Weston, better known as Tommy Vance) one of the first internet radio stations, TotalRock.
- Currently a Founder Director of Cambridgeshire's first all-digital local radio station, Affinity, due to commence broadcasts from central Cambridge on DAB in the spring of 2011.
- Specialist in innovation and establishing/redesigning organisations.
- Runs own successful property investment business.
Mrs Emma Fletcher (Fitzwilliam, 1996, Land Economy)
"What better way to continue the Cambridge experience than volunteering. The opportunities and lifelong friends that Cambridge has given to me is priceless."
- Deputy Chair, Networks & Volunteers Working Group, Alumni Advisory Board
- Land and Strategic Projects Manager, since May 2007, for Hill Residential, focusing on inner-city redevelopment, joint ventures and affordable housing developments across East Anglia, London and the South East.
- Trained as an Assistant Land Agent at Bidwells, managing farms and estates across Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. Following Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) qualification, spent six years in the Residential Development Team working on major development schemes in the Cambridge Sub-Region.
- President, Cambridge University Land Society (CULS) 2008-2009 - one of the most active Alumni Societies in the University,
- Former President, The Land Society, the Land Economy student body.
- Married to Mr Charles Fletcher (Magdalene, 1996, Land Economy).
Mr Mike Gregson (Trinity Hall, 1955, Natural Sciences, Metallurgy)
"I like meeting with people with common interests and encouraging them to do the same."
- Emigrated to Australia (£10 Pom).
- Employed in Steel and Minerals Industries, retired as General Manager Iron Ore, B H P.
- Served as an infantry officer in British and Australian armies.
- Dewatered a flooded tin mine in Indonesia.
- Served as Founder Secretary, Indonesian Mining Association.
- Attended Advanced Management Programme, Harvard Business School.
- Secretary, Mines Department, Government of Victoria.
- Member, Executive, Victorian Chamber of Mines.
- Chairman Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Melbourne Branch) and Fellow of the Institute.
- Founder Committee member of the Melbourne Mining Club.
- From 1993, Secretary, Cambridge Society of Australia (Victoria) Inc, now Assistant Secretary.
- Member Victorian Committee of Cambridge Australia Scholarships Ltd
- Former Secretary of the Australian Alpine Club and now Founder Secretary Australian Alpine Club Niseko (Hokkaido).
- Wife, Helen, 3 daughters and 1 son all educated in Australia.
Dr Jill Hockey
"Although not an alumna, from the time I was married in Christ’s College Chapel many years ago, I have enjoyed associating with the University and alumni at work and play and hoped to help others to do the same."
- Committee member and volunteer, Cambridge Societies' Tours, since 2002. Dr Hockey has organised twelve holidays for 291 members over eight years, with more in planning.
- Committee member Cambridge Society in Cambridge.
- Has an M.B., B.Ch 1965, Witwatersrand University.
- Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA), 1971.
- Medical Practitioner in Cambridge, under her maiden name of Dr Walton, at Addenbrooke's Hospital and the National Blood Service and now retired.
- Married to Dr John Hockey (Christ's, 1957, Natural Sciences).
- They have two children and four grandchildren.
- Retired in 2007 from a varied career.
- Management Trainee with John Laing Construction. Member of the Institute of Builders.
- William Robertson Shipowners. Quarry manager in Skye and Harris, 1965.
- IBM UK- Sales and Marketing - selling to central government, 1969.
- Helped make Cambridge’s first connection to the internet in 1978.
- College of Law and trainee solicitor, 1981.
- IBM UK - Solicitor and Regional Counsel, 1985.
- Ashurst Morris Crisp - Senior Associate Solicitor specialising in IT, 1991.
- Solicitor - self employed, 1996.
- CEDR qualified commercial mediator.
- Community Mediator in Berkshire and trustee of Mediation Oxfordshire.
- Secretary of the Cambridge Society of Oxfordshire.
- Committee member of the Wine Society Dining Club.
- Treasurer of Hanney PCC.
- Married to Catriona Karney for 44 years; three children and four grandchildren.
- Lives in south Oxfordshire.
- An active traveller and past trekker.
- Master, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, since October 2008.
- Former Chairman, Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Group of Kuwait.
- Former Ambassador to Kuwait, 2005-2008.
- Distinguished career in the diplomatic service since 1970, including Deputy Ambassador in Prague and Riyadh, High Commissioner to Brunei and Ambassador to Muscat 2002-2005.
- Married to Mrs Sibella Laing (Newnham, 1967, History). Their daughters are Miss Hannah Laing (Selwyn, 2005, English), Ms Catriona Laing (Jesus, 1999, Religious Studies) and their son is Mr James Laing (Corpus Christi, 1993, Oriental Studies).
- Mr Laing’s father was Mr Denys Laing (Corpus Christi, 1934, Natural Sciences) and his brothers are Mr Richard Laing (Corpus Christi, 1972, Engineering, Management Studies) and Mr (Andrew) Marcus Laing (Corpus Christi, 1974, Economics).
Mr Alan Mak (Peterhouse, 2002, Law)
- Member of the Networks & Volunteers Working Group, Alumni Advisory Board
- Solicitor at Clifford Chance LLP in London. Served as Chairman of the firm's Junior Lawyers' Committee, as a founder member of the Clifford Chance Foundation co-ordinating the firm’s giving to charities and good causes globally and currently engaged in the firm’s graduate recruitment, pro bono, CSR and public policy initiatives.
- Chairman, Cambridge10, the University’s network for young and recent alumni who graduated in the last 10 years.
- Former member of Cambridge University's Faculty Board of Law.
- Winner, Cambridge University ECS Wade Prize for Administrative Law (Top of Year), 2005.
- Trustee, Magic Breakfast, the UK’s leading school breakfast club charity and social enterprise.
- Advisory Board Member, One Young World, the forum for young global leaders.
- Secretary of the Young Icebreakers’ Group of the 48 Group Club, the UK-China business network.
- Governor of a state primary school in Tower Hamlets, east London.
- Advisor to the Mayor’s Fund for London and the Big Society Network.
- Co-Chairman, Conservative Fastrack; Executive Committee, Conservative City Future.
- Member, London Advisory Council, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.
- Member, TheCityUK Next Generation Vision Group and co-author of the Next Generation Vision for Financial Services (2011).
- Ambassador for Enterprise UK/Make Your Mark.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Freeman of the City of London and Freeman of the City of London Solicitors’ Company.
- Square Mile Magazine/Lufthansa Young City Lawyer of the Year 2011/11.
- Member of the Guardian/Courvoisier Future 500 network.
Her Honour Judge Katharine Marshall (Sidney Sussex, 1977, Natural Sciences/Law)
- A Circuit Judge since 2008, appointed to the Western Circuit, based in Portsmouth.
- A District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) for six years. Appointed as a Recorder in 2007. Previously employed as a Deputy Justices Clerk, a combined legal and managerial role. Completed a Diploma in Business Studies (with distinction) through the University of Greenwich.
- Member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee until 2008.
- Former member of the Judicial Studies Board Family Committee.
- Previously involved in many aspects of judicial training, including in overseas jurisdictions.
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Cambridge Society until dissolution.
- Married to Huw Stevenson (St Catherine's, 1976, Geography/Land Economy), a Chartered Surveyor, Director of a Property Company, and Arbitrator. Her sister is Frances Lee (St Catherine's, 1979, History), now lecturing in Accountancy. Judge Marshall has three children, Gordon Marshall (Oxford Brookes, History), Andrew Stevenson (St Catherine's 2004, Modern Languages) and Helena Stevenson (Leeds, Classics). Huw and Andrew are both Rugby blues (1977 and 1979, and 2007 respectively).
Mr Ian Mitchelson CBE (Downing, 1956, Geography)
- Some teaching but mainly educational management with local authorities and Ministry of Defence.
- Deputy County Education Officer, North Yorkshire County Council 1985-1990
- First Chief Executive, Service Children’s Schools (NW Europe), subsequently Service Children’s Education Worldwide, Defence Agency 1991-1996.
- Appointed CBE in 1997 Birthday Honours List.
- Founder Member and second Chair, North Yorkshire Branch, Cambridge Society
- Regional Secretary (North East England) Cambridge Society 2004-2008; liaison with North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Sheffield, York and Northumbria Societies.
- Cambridge Society, Executive Committee, 2000 – commencement of run down.
- Member, Cambridge Society of York.
- Closely involved in the evolution of Cambridge Society into CARO led federation of Local Cambridge Societies.
- Sometime President, Rotary Club of Northallerton.
- Sometime Chairman, South Tees NHS Hospital Trust Patient Forum (James Cook University and Friarage Hospitals).
- Sometime Treasurer, Wensleydale Decorative and Fine Arts Society.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, sometime Yorkshire Regional Secretary.
Mr David Peace (St Catharine's, 1966, Classics)
- Chairman, Cambridge Society of London since 2010, having worked closely with Sandy Ross-Macdonald in developing the Society for over 10 years.
- Former President and now Secretary of the St Catharine’s College Alumni Society
- Chairman of a Westminster Amenity Society.
- Independent advisor providing performance coaching for executives, outplacement and career transition services for companies, and one-to-one support for foreign managers
- Former Chief Executive, Barristers' Chambers in Middle Temple, London.
- Former Corporate Director of Global Management Development for British Aerospace (now BAe Systems), charged with developing the 1200 senior executives and 300 young high-potential managers
- Former Head of Group Training & Development of Tarmac plc, charged with developing 24000 employees in trade skills and management competencies
- Former Principal Royal Saudi Air Force School of English for 11 years in the 1970’s and 80’s, then with 2000 cadets the third largest in the world. Also project managed the redesign of the complete RSAF non-pilot training profile including English, Maths/Physics, Aeronautics, Electronics, Air Traffic Control.
- Worked on an oil concession in the Libyan Sahara, 300 miles south of Sirte, in the 1970’s,
- Lived and worked as a volunteer on the Blue Nile 250 miles south of Khartoum in the late 1960’s, the only westerner for 6000 square miles
- Fellow of Royal Society of Arts
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
- Member, British Psychological Society
- Alumnus of the City University (MBA)
- Alumnus of the University of London (PGCE).
Mr John Pritchard (Robinson, 1983, Law)
- Founder and CEO, Piper Pritchard Associates, a company that specialises in law, HR and Marketing recruitment.
- Trained at Allen & Overy and at Salomon Brothers, both in New York and London.
- Founded and sold Long Reach International, a business established to supply structured finance and risk management to the sports market, whose clients included the Athens Olympic Games and the Ryder Cup.
- Former rower. Competed in two Olympic Games as well as several World and European championships. He also participated in three University Boat Races for Cambridge University.
- He has broadcast on rowing for the BBC and Eurosport and contributed articles to different published media.
- Director and Advisory Board Member, British Olympic Association.
- Member, Cambridge University Alumni Group.
- Director and Trustee, Right to Play, an international charity which uses the transformative power of sport and play to build essential skills in children.
- Chairman of Trustees, SportsSearch.
- Director, Hawks Club Ltd.
- Board Member, Hawks Club.
Mr John Simpson (Magdalene, 1963, English)
- BBC's World Affairs Editor since 1988, the senior member of a team of London-based foreign and specialist correspondents.
- Has reported from more than 100 countries, from 30 war zones and has interviewed numerous controversial world leaders including Sadam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gadhaffi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Robert Mugabe and the Emperor Bokassa.
- Previously BBC Diplomatic and presenter of the Nine O'clock News.
- Presenter of a current and political affairs program called Simpson's World.
- Former Associate Editor of The Spectator and has written a foreign affairs column for The Sunday Telegraph since 1996.
- Most recent books include an autobiographical trilogy: Strange Places, Questionable People (1998), A Mad World, My Masters (2000), News From No Man's Land (2002), The Wars Against Saddam (2003), Days from a Different World (2005) and Not Quite World's End (2007).
- Received a CBE in 1991, and is one of only two people to have been twice named the Royal Television Society's 'Journalist of the Year' (1991 and 2000).
- Other awards include three BAFTA's, a Golden Nymph Award for his reporting of Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran (1979), a Peabody Trust Award for news (1999), a special jury's award at the Bayeux War Correspondents Awards (2002) an International Emmy Award for News Coverage for his report on the fall of Kabul for BBC's Ten O'Clock News (2002), GQ Magazine 'Author of the Year' (2003) and in 2004 John received the award from Pan MacMillan for the 'Audio Book of the Year' for The Wars Against Saddam (2004).
- Installed as Chancellor of Roehampton University. In November 2005
- Awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Magdalene College in September 1999.
- Edited Granta magazine while at Cambridge.
Ms Penelope 'Penny' Smith (King's, 1974, Economics)
"Cambridge has given us so much. It is great to be able to give something back."
- Spent most of her career as an Economist working on Employment and Labour Market Policy at the European Commission in Brussels.
- Also worked as an Economist, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London; The Economist Intelligence Unit, London, and the International Monetary Fund, Washington.
- Her husband is Dr Timothy Leggatt (King's, 1954, History), former Senior Tutor at King's College. The couple re-met at a King's alumni reunion event in 1988 and were married in 1991. They have two children, Eva, a modern linguist and singer, and Jack, a tennis-playing all-rounder.
- Ms Smith is currently suffering from ME, and not able to work full time but is actively involved with local charities.
- Also an alumna of Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.
Mr Laurence Smy (Selwyn, 1961, History, Theology)
- Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Branch, formerly member of the Executive Committee and then Chairman of the Executive Committee, Cambridge Society.
- Chairman, The European Atlantic Movement.
- Leader of Study Tours to Brussels and Washington DC.
- Chairman of the Steering Group, Council for Christian Muslim Relations, High Wycombe.
- Retired Head Teacher, formerly Headmaster of Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Dr Anne Thidemann (Emmanuel, 1998, History of Art)
- Senior Member, Wolfson College, Cambridge.
- BA in Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen.
- Alumni member of CamSAN; the University of Cambridge Alumni Office and the Graduate Union committee to develop a programme of events for graduate students and alumni.
- Former President of the Cambridge University Graduate Union.
- Advisor to the Fundraising Committee at PEER gallery, London.
- General Manager, Frieze from 2007 including Frieze Art Fair, fundraising and new project development for the Frieze Foundation.
- Secured a major grant from LOCOG to programme a series of new art works across London’s East End for the London 2012 Festival and the Olympics.
- Research interests in the art market, 19th and 20th century art, and contemporary art.
- Previously Project Manager to Professor Christopher Dobson, University of Cambridge and Project Manager at the Imperial War Museum, Manchester Metropolitan University and Project Coordinator at Fitzwilliam Museum.
- Native speaker of Danish.
Mr Jason Wall (Pembroke, 1997, MPhil in Economics)
- Regional Alumni Convenor, Alumni Group of Georgia (USA).
- Director of Corporate Development, since October 2006, US Security Associates, a large security services company with offices around the country.
- Previously with Corbin Investment Holdings LLC, an investment management firm in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Former Associate, Japonica Partners, an investment management firm in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Has a Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree from Brown University, Rhode Island and an MBA from Columbia University, New York.
Dr Henri Winand (Girton, 1995, PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy)
"The University stands for quality and excellence: what is there not to like, who would not want to volunteer?"
- Chief Executive, Intelligent Energy Holdings plc, since 2006. Intelligent Energy is a privately held clean power systems company serving the transportation, oil and gas, aerospace, defence, distributed generation and portable power markets. Intelligent Energy addresses these markets using its proprietary fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies. Its customers include PSA Peugeot Citroen, Suzuki, Boeing, Scottish and Southern Energy, Airbus, major electronics and consumer electronics companies, oil and gas companies, defence agencies, the US DoE and many more. The company was formed in 2001, but has a twenty year history, it has its major operating sites in the UK and USA and commercial offices and representatives in locations including Japan.
- Former Vice-President of Corporate Venturing at Rolls-Royce plc.
- Has an MBA from Warwick Business School and a BEng from Imperial College London.
- He is married to Dr Anne Whitehouse (Jesus, 1978, Materials Science) and has two children.
Dr Kai-Yuen Wong (Fitzwilliam, 2002, Medicine)
"The University stands for quality and excellence: what is there not to like, who would not want to volunteer?"
- Surgical doctor working at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
- Supervisor in Clinical Medicine, Physiology and Anatomy at various Cambridge colleges.
- Member of The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
- Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
- Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
- Fellow of the Cambridge Overseas Society.
- Regional Committee Head of the British Journal of Hospital Medicine.
- Founder of the Cambridge University United Nations Association in 2006 and led the society to receive national recognition as “one of the most active branches” in the country.
- Former Youth Campaigner for the United Nations Children’s Fund helping advise and shape the global Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign in the United Kingdom (2008-2009).
- Former Young Envoy for the United Nations Children’s Fund in Hong Kong (2001-2002).
- Former Chairman of the Hong Kong Joint Schools Debating Society (2000-2001).
- Plays the piano, cello and violin. Also enjoys swimming, photography and travel.
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