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CfBT Education Trust has ten Trustees who make up the Board
of Trustees. They are legally responsible for all of CfBT’s affairs
and are ultimately responsible for the performance of the
organisation and the quality of service it offers clients and
beneficiaries.
In practice they delegate this responsibility to the Operations Committee which oversees the
day-to-day management of CfBT.
There are two other key committees, which the Trustees also
delegate responsibility to:
- Education
Committee, which oversees the
educational impact of the Trust’s work. It also decides on the
funding for CfBT’s research and development projects;
- Audit Committee, which
provides an independent oversight of the CfBT’s systems of internal
control and financial reporting. It also oversees risk management
and associated areas such as insurance.
Meet the Trustees
John Harwood, Chairman of Board of Trustees
John Harwood was appointed Chairman of Trustees in November
2004. He had helped to establish the Learning and Skills Council
(LSC) and was its first chief executive from 2000 until he retired
in late 2003. Previously he had been the chief executive of two
local authorities (Oxfordshire County Council and Lewisham Borough)
and had worked in the ILEA, the GLC and Hammersmith and Fulham.
Among his other interests, he is a senior associate fellow of
Warwick University Business School and a member of the Court of
Oxford Brookes University. From time to time he takes on other
roles; in 2004 he was the interim chief executive of Cumbria County
Council and until March 2008 he was the chief executive of the Food
Standards Agency.
Cameron Bowles
Cameron Bowles joined CfBT Education Trust as a trustee in March
2005. He is currently director, education thematic group, for
the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
AusAID has a particular focus in the Asia-Pacific region.
Cameron moved to AusAID from Education Action International, a
London-based charity focused on education with refugees and in
countries affected by conflict in Africa and the Middle East, where
he was chief executive.
From 1996-2002, Cameron was director of Trócaire (Northern
Ireland), an international development charity working in Africa,
South East Asia and Central America where he specialised in
institutional capacity building work. Prior to this, Cameron
has more than 10 years corporate experience including working for
the corporate bank Bankers Trust, Australia based in
Sydney.
John Fielden, Chairman of the Audit Committee
John has practised as a management consultant in higher
education policy and management since 1969. He is a chartered
accountant, and has been a partner at KPMG in charge of their
public sector management consultancy practice which included higher
education. In 1993 he set up the Commonwealth Higher
Education Management Service (CHEMS), the research and consultancy
service of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
He now runs an independent consultancy and has carried out over
250 higher education projects in over 40 countries specialising in
Higher Education policy studies for agencies and governments.
John is the author of many articles on higher education
management as well as the standard UK textbook on university
administration. He has been a member of the governing body of four
universities or colleges.
Anita Higham OBE
Anita's career has been in secondary education including two
headships - Sheldon School in Wiltshire from 1979 to 1984 and
Banbury School in Oxfordshire during 1985-1998. In 1996 she
received an OBE for services to education and training.
During 1999-2001 Anita was non-executive director of the Oxford
Radcliffe NHS Hospitals Trust followed by a role as foundation
chair of North Oxfordshire's Primary Care Trust until
2006.
Anita is a trustee of a SureStart centre and a member of the Public
Involvement Forum of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire NHS Mental
Health Trust which is committed to monitoring the Trust's provision
for child and adolescent mental health. Anita promotes
appropriate working links between health and education.
Sara Hodson
Sara is an experienced management developer, facilitator and
leadership coach. She is Governor of the University
College for the Creative Arts and formerly of the Surrey
institute of Art & Design University College and is also on the
Nominations Committee of UCCA where, earlier this year, she
supported the Clerk to the Board in a board skills audit
and recruitment for three new governors.
Previously Sara worked as Head of HR for Investment Banking at
Citibank and she has been a non-executive director of an NHS
Trust. She has been a lead consultant on a leadership
development programme for the senior executive team of the
government's e-Delivery team, based within the Cabinet Office
as well as on a similar project within HM Revenue and
Customs.
Sara continues to be a lead instructor on Citigroup's global
leadership programmes, working with groups across Europe,
Africa and the USA.
Iain MacArthur
In the 1980s Iain MacArthur worked for CfBT on language projects
in Morocco and Qatar and for immigrant populations in London. He
has an MSc in Applied Linguistics and has taught in England and for
CfBT in Germany. Iain has also held posts at Kingsway College,
London and the University of East London. He now works for a wine
importer.
John Webb
John Webb spent some 20 years in education, management and then
educational publishing with Oxford University Press both in the UK
and overseas. He has been associated with CfBT since its
foundation. In 1984 he moved into management consultancy
specialising in organisational development work for the education
sector before broadening his work into the health sector, arts
bodies, not-for-profit organisations and the United Nations. John
retired from Price Waterhouse Coopers in 2000 and continues to work
with educational and arts bodies on a part-time basis. He is
chairman of governors of his local school in Somerset and also of
the Federation of 17 maintained schools in the area.
Marion Headicar
Marion Headicar became chief executive of Oxford City Council in
2001, having been appointed to overhaul the poorly performing
authority. In 2004 she moved to Portsmouth City Council, a
unitary authority, with a brief for organisational change.
Previously she had lectured in urban regeneration and planning at
Leeds Metropolitan University before joining the Department of
Environment in 1988, where she worked on a range of initiatives:
sponsoring the urban development corporations, establishing a new
environmental regeneration team and setting up the Environment Task
Force for the New Deal. She is currently an independent
management consultant, specialising in strategic and organisational
planning.
Graham Colls
Graham Colls is Chief Executive of Magna Housing Group, a
not-for-profit housing organisation working mostly in Dorset,
Somerset and Devon. He was previously Chief Executive of Two
Castles Housing Association. He holds degrees from the
Universities of Oxford and Durham, is a Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Housing and a school governor.
Stephen Yeo, Chairman of the Education Committee
Stephen Yeo is a writer, consultant and author of a wide range
of books and articles mostly on social history and adult learning.
Stephen was principal of Ruskin College, Oxford from 1989 to 1997
and Director of the Heart of England TEC over the same period.
After Ruskin, Stephen became Honorary Professor in History at the
University of Warwick, visiting Professor in the Centre for Civil
Society at the London School of Economics and Chair of Co-operative
Futures and of the Board of Management of the Co-operative College.
He has retired from these positions, to write and work with
CfBT.
Operations Committee
The Operations Committee has delegated responsibility for the
day-to-day management of CfBT and is made up of eight executive and
four non-executive members.
Executive Members
Neil McIntosh – Chief Executive
Richard Birkett – Commercial Director
Tim Emmett – Development Director
Margaret Abbott – UK Services Director
Lesley Moore – Schools and Justice Services Director
Tony McAleavy – Education Director
Joanne Smithson – Planning and Corporate Services Director
Andy Breckon - Lincolnshire School Improvement Services
Director
Jonathan Greenwood - International Operations Director
Non-Executive Members
John Harwood – Chairman
John Fielden
Stephen Yeo
Dr Peter Phillips OBE