Trustees

Sir Nick Monck KCB

Chairman

Nick Monck is a non-executive director of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a member of the Council of Management of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research; and of Transparency International (UK)`s Advisory Council. He was a director of the Standard Life Assurance Co from 1997-2005. He worked in HM Treasury from 1969-1992. He was Principal Private Secretary to Chancellor Denis Healey (1976-77) and Second Permanent Secretary (Public Expenditure)  (1990-92). He was Permanent Secretary Department of Employment (1993-95). Before joining the Treasury he was Senior Economist, Ministry of Agriculture in Tanzania (1966-69).

Graham Barr MBE 

Graham Barr is Executive Chairman of Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres. He was formerly Vice President, International Regions, for the BP Group based in London and prior to that Executive Director, BP Southern Africa in Cape Town. Alongside broad business general management experience, his specialities include reputation management strategy and implementation, political risk assessment and management, public affairs, negotiations, crisis management, relationship management, geo-politics, corporate social and ethical policy management and corporate governance, change management and communications.  He is a former political and financial journalist and Deputy Editor of a leading South African daily newspaper and was a leader in the Consultative Business Movement that helped progress change in South Africa during the l980s and early 1990s. He is a member of the Board of the Global Leadership Foundation, which comprises former Presidents, Prime Ministers and senior political leaders who confidentially advise the leaders of today.

Robert Craig 

Robert Craig is partner at Finers Stephens Innocent LLP, Solicitors, London, and Head of its Charities Unit acting as a specialist in Private and Charitable Trusts and Tax Planning. Prior to that, he was Managing Partner of  Bennett Taylor Tyrrell, Solicitors from 1990 -1998. Mr Craig’s background is in company/commercial law. He is a Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the Charity Law Association as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Arbitrators and an Accredited Mediator.

Martin Evans

Martin Evans works as a consultant to a number of international organisations, national governments and private and public companies involved in development.  He was New Business Director, Booker Tate Ltd from 1989 to 2004 and Managing Director, MacDonald Agricultural Services Ltd from 1985 to 1988.   Prior to that he was with the Tropical Agriculture Division, Booker Agriculture International Ltd (1979-84) and on the staff of the Asian Development Bank (1975-78).  He was Chairman of Oxford Policy Management Ltd from 2003 to 2006.

Nicholas Morris

Nicholas Morris is Director of IPA Asia, an Australian economic consultancy that assists companies with strategies in Asian countries. He has worked in many developing countries and is currently active in China and SE Asia. He was a researcher and Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1979-86.  He was the founder of London Economics in 1986 (and its CEO until 2000) and CEO of Tasman Economics/ACIL Tasman from 2000 until 2005.  Previously, he worked as an economist in the UK Government Economic Service from 1977-1979. He was a Visiting Professor at City University Business School and a Governor of the charity Research into Ageing until 2001. He is currently a Fellow of Melbourne University. He has advised various House of Lords and House of Commons Committees, as well as other public bodies in Europe and Australia.

Robert Picciotto

Robert Picciotto is a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London. He has an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aeronautique (France) and a Master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (USA). In the World Bank Group, he has served as development bank specialist , agricultural economist in the New Delhi resident mission, division chief for agricultural industries, coordinator of the Bangladesh land and water development program, assistant director for agriculture and rural development in Asia and Director of Projects Departments in three of the World Bank’s Regions (South Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean). He was appointed Vice President for Corporate Planning and Budgeting at the World Bank in 1989 and as Director-General, Evaluation in 1992. Since his retirement in 2002, Robert Picciotto has advised the Council of Europe Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the International Fund for Agriculture Development, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and the International Development Committee of the House of Commons. Robert serves on the council of the United Kingdom Evaluation Society. He has published widely on development and evaluation issues.

Bryan Sanderson CBE

Bryan Sanderson is a Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science and was Vice Chairman from 1998 to 2003. He is a Trustee of the Economist and sits on the Board of the Commonwealth Business Council.He joined BP in 1964 after two years voluntary service with the United Nations Association in Peru, and held a variety of positions prior to being appointed Chief Executive Officer of BP Chemicals in March 1990 and a Managing Director of BP in April 1992. After he retired in 2000, he was appointed Chairman of the Learning and Skills Council (2000-2004), Chairman of BUPA (2001-6) and Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (2003-6). He was invited to become Chairman of Northern Rock in October 2007 and stood down when the bank was taken into public ownership in February 2008. He served on the Management Committee of the King’s Fund and its Audit Committee (2000-6) and was non-executive Chairman of the Sunderland Area Regeneration Company from 2001 to 2009. Earlier, he was one of the `three wise men’ who advised the leader of the Labour party on competitiveness, a member of the DTI’s steering group on Company Law Reform (1998-2001) and co-chairman of the UK T&I Asia Task Force (2005-2007).  He was a non-executive director of Six Continents PLC (formerly Bass plc) from 2001 to 2003 and of Corus (formerly British Steel) from 1994 to 2001.

Bryan Sanderson gained a B.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and attended the IMEDE Business School, Lausanne in 1973. He was awarded a CBE in 1999, Honorary Degrees from the University of Sunderland and University of York in 1998 and 1999 respectively and an Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002. He is married with two children. He is a non-executive director of Durham County Cricket Club and was Chairman of Sunderland Ltd. (football) from 1998 to 2004.

David Vines

David Vines is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. David’s research is on macroeconomics and international economics, in particular on European monetary union, and on regional integration in the Asia-Pacific region. He is also working on the prevention and resolution of international financial crises, on regionalism in trade, and more generally, on international financial institutions and global economic governance. From 1985 to 1992 David was Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at the University of Glasgow, and from 1994 to 2000 he was the Director of the ESRC Research Programme on Global Economic Institutions in the UK. David was a Director of Channel Four Television from 1986 to 1992, and from 1992 to 2002 he was a Director of Analysys, a telecommunications consultancy company. More recently he has been a Director of Oxford Policy Management.