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.

Pierre Landell-Mills

Pierre Landell-Mills is Visiting Professor in international economics at the University of Bath and President of Partnership for Transparency Fund, an international NGO providing small grants to civil society organisations to fight corruption in developing countries. He is a Principal with the consulting firm Policy Practice. He has had more than 40 years of experience in development work in Africa and Asia, including 26 years in the World Bank.

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.

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.