Patron, Governors & Fellows
HM The Queen
Her Majesty The Queen is Patron of Goodenough College. She visits regularly and takes an active interest in College affairs.
Governors
The Advisory Council of the College may consist of up to 50 Governors, the majority of whom must be elected. There are currently thirty-three Governors, of whom 24 are elected and 9 are ex-officio. A number of the Governors (up to 15) are also elected to the Board which is the executive body responsible for the management of the College. The Board members are the Trustees of the College as a charity. The Board refers to the Advisory Council on a regular basis for advice concerning the direction and strategy of the College.
President of the Advisory Council
The Rt Hon the Lord Fellowes, GCB, GCVO, QSO
Robert Fellowes was elected as President of the Advisory Council in April 2008. He recently retired as Chairman of Barclays Private Bank, where he worked since 1999, the year in which he left Buckingham Palace after 22 years service to The Queen as Assistant, Deputy and then Private Secretary from 1990. Before going to Buckingham Palace he was in the City for 14 years.
He is also a non-executive Director of SABMiller plc. He is Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth Education Trust, and a Trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. He is also Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit. He has been a Rhodes Trustee since 2000 and is now a Trustee of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation in South Africa. He also chairs The Voices Foundation.
He is married with 3 children and enjoys reading and all sport, especially golf and watching cricket.
Chairman of the Board
Mr Jonathan Hirst, QC
Jonathan Hirst was elected as Chairman of the Board of Goodenough College in October 2008, having served as a Governor since 2000. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a practising barrister. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1975 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990. He was Chairman of the Bar of England & Wales in 2000. He has a largely commercial practice and is currently Joint Head of Brick Court Chambers. He also sits part-time as a Recorder and Deputy High Court Judge and has been elected Treasurer of the Inner Temple for 2012.
He and his wife, Fiona, have one son. They divide their lives between Fulham and North Norfolk. When at home he enjoys shooting, gardening, walking their dogs, swimming and listening to classical music.
Emeritus Governors
Sir Christopher Wates
Elected Governors
Mr Alex Acland
Mr David Brooks Wilson
Mr Andrew Brown, QC
The Hon Justice Dennis Cowdroy, OAM (Australia)
Mr Hugh Crossley
Mr Fabian French
Sir Anthony Goodenough, KCMG
Sir William Goodenough
Ms Connie Jackson
Mrs Fiona Kirk
Dr Tidu Maini
Mr Theo Milonopoulos
Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, DBE
Ms Kathleen McCrone (Canada)
Mr Charles McGregor
Mr Arun Nagwaney
Ms Suzy Neubert
Mr Christopher Palmer-Tomkinson
Mr Oliver Pawle
Mr John Polk
The Hon Philip Remnant
Mr Martin Schwab
Mr Sanjay Tanwani
Mr Eric Tracey
Mr Graham Ward, CBE, FCA
Professor Stuart Ward
Professor René Weis
Ex-Officio Governors
Mr Martin Davidson (Director-General, British Council)
Professor Geoffrey Crossick (Vice-Chancellor, University of London)
Mr Clive Parritt (President, Institute of Chartered Accountants)
Sir Richard Thompson (President, Royal College of Physicians)
Professor Andrew D. Hamilton (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)
Sir Anthony Figgis, KCVO, CMG (Chairman, Royal Over-Seas League)
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge)
Professor Anton Muscatelli (Principal, University of Glasgow)
Mr Michael Todd, QC (Chairman, Bar Council)
Goodenough Fellows
The College has over 30 formally elected Fellows whose role is to act as ambassadors for the College in the wider community, assist in recruitment of strong candidates for College membership and add to the kudos of Goodenough College through their own distinguished standing (academic or otherwise).
Within the College they act as mentors and careers advisers for members and alumni in their area of expertise, bolster the College’s extra-curricular programme of events by giving Port Talks, chairing debates and seminars and generally act as inspirational role models.
LIST OF FELLOWS
Arts Faculty
Professor Caroline Barron (Emeritus, Professor of Mediaeval History, Royal Holloway)
Dr Grahame Davies (poet, novelist, editor and literary critic)
Rebecca Drew (Art Historian, Lecturer at National Gallery etc)
Tom Freudenheim (Former Director, the Gilbert Collection)
Professor Jacqueline Rose (Professor of English & Drama at Queen Mary)
Sam Moorhead (Finds Adviser for Iron Age and Roman coins and Ex-Curator of Interpretation, British Museum)
Professor Alan Sekers ( Former Professor of Media, London College of Communications)
Robert Dukes (Artist, Art Historian, Lecturer at HRH The Prince of Wales’s Drawing School etc)
Robert Boas
Medical Faculty
Professor Andrew Carr (Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford University)
Professor John Danesh (Professor of Epidemiology, Cambridge University)
Professor George Ellison (Visiting Fellow for Goodenough HIV/AIDS conference & Former Director of London Metropolitan University Graduate School)
Mrs Veronica Ferguson (Oculist to the Royal Household)
Law Faculty
Sir Roy Goode CBE QC (Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Law, Oxford University)
Professor Geraldine van Bueren (Professor of International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary, Visiting Fellow for Goodenough Slavery Conference)
Business Faculty
Professor Simon Commander (Director of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets, LBS, Managing Partner Altura Advisers, Visiting Fellow for Goodenough Common Currencies conference)
Humanities Faculty
Professor John Adams (UCL Emeritus Professor of Geography, Visiting Fellow for Goodenough Risk Conference)
Dr Catherine Audard (Chair and co-founder of the Forum for European Philosophy at LSE)
Professor Jo Beall, (Director Education & Society, British Council)
Professor Christopher Coker (Professor of International Relations at LSE, & Visiting Fellow for Goodenough Terrorism Conference)
Baroness Caroline Cox (ex-Vice-Speaker of the House of Lords, Children’s Rights Campaigner and Chief Executive of HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust)
Professor Mick Cox (Professor of International Relations at LSE and Associate Research Fellow Chatham House)
Dr Chris Hughes (Senior Lecturer in International Relations & Director of the Asia Research Centre at LSE)
Mr John Lotherington (Director, The 21st Century Trust and Director of Seminars at Salzburg Global Seminar)
Professor Henrietta Moore, (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Dr Bill Palmer (Linguistics Discipline Convenor, Pacific Languages Research Group, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia)
Ann Pettifor (Speaker at Goodenough Sovereign Debt Conference, Executive Director Advocacy International)
Dr Tom Shakespeare (Director of Outreach for the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute & speaker at Trading Genes Conference)
Professor Tim Shaw (Former Director of University of the West Indies Institute of International Relations and ex-Director of Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UCL)
Lord (William) Wallace (Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Peers in the House of Lords and Professor of International Relations, LSE)