Board members
Ann Allen
Ann Allen is property portfolio manager at John Lewis. In this role she has responsibility for the asset management of all the John Lewis shops as well as a portfolio of distribution units and residential holiday centres.
Ann is a chartered surveyor and has worked within the field of property for over 27 years. She has held a variety of posts during her career in both the private and public sector, including setting up a new property department for the National Probation Directorate, and was also head of estates and facilities management for HBOS. During her time at HBOS she sat on the CBI property group.
As well as sitting on the Governing Board at Kingston, Ann is a parent governor of her local primary school.
Ann is a member of the Finance and People Committees.
Chris Brooks
Chris Brooks retired from BP in 2005 after a 34-year career. During his time with BP he was chief executive of a number of BP business units concerned mainly with new market development and oil trading in emerging countries.
Chris has lived and worked in the USA, Singapore, Oman and Dubai, and served as a director on the Boards of BP's marketing subsidiaries and joint venture companies in the Middle East and India. His particular experience is in governance, managing substantive complex organisations, strategy development and implementation, and the development of organisations, teams and individuals.
Since retiring from BP, Chris has focused on supporting the third and public sectors through consultancy, mentoring and as a director, primarily with organisations operating in education, health and youth issues. Chris has been a non-executive director of the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority.
Chris is an alumnus of Kingston Polytechnic having graduated in 1974 with a BSc in Applied Chemistry. He is a member of the Finance Committee and member of the Board of Directors of KUSCo (Kingston University Service Company) and KUCEL (Kingston University Campus Enterprises Ltd).
David Carter
David Carter had an international career of 29 years working for ICI PLC, the multi-national chemical company. A chartered accountant by profession, David worked in a range of senior finance and business roles prior to his appointment as ICI's global head of mergers and acquisitions.
He has lived and worked in the USA, Asia and Europe, as well as in the UK. He was executive director and CFO on the board of an Indian Public Company and has been a non-executive director of two public companies in Pakistan.
He now works as a mergers and acquisitions consultant, company director and board mentor to the business and charity sectors. He is a director of the Almeida Theatre Company and non-executive director-designate of the English Speaking Union. David also serves as independent external member of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's Audit Committee and of Arts Council England's Finance and Audit Committee.
David is an English and American literature graduate of the University of East Anglia.
He is chair of the Estates Committee and KUP (Kingston University Press), and an ex-officio member of the Nominations and Governance Committee.
Stephen Cooksey
Stephen is the University's representative at Surrey County Council, where he has served as councillor for the past five years. He recently retired from his post as deputy director of Open University Validation Services.
Prior to this, Stephen worked as registrar at the University of Buckingham and registrar at Roehampton Institute. His earlier career included administrative posts at Salford and Bradford Universities, and research posts at Bristol and Leeds Universities. Whilst at Buckingham, he also worked as a QAA auditor.
Stephen has served as an elected councillor for 38 years in total, for three local authorities in Yorkshire, including Leeds City Council, prior to moving to Surrey in 1989, during which time he has held a number of committee chairmanships and group leaderships. He was appointed honorary alderman of the City of Leeds in 2008.
He is a member of the Council of Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is also a director of Dorking Chamber of Commerce, Dorking Healthcheck (DNA) and of Surrey Historic Buildings Trust.
Stephen is a member of the Estates Committee.
James Denholm-Price
James Denholm-Price is a principal lecturer in computing and mathematics in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, where he teaches programming, mathematical analysis and various topics in web development. He has a background in mathematics, meteorology and computing, having worked at the University of Sheffield and the UK Met Office as a researcher in atmospheric sciences, predictability and weather forecasting.
At Kingston he is currently involved in academic research with a variety of collaborators, working on projects that include usability and speech recognition for mathematical expressions, databases for parasitology researchers and statistical models for epidemiological studies. He also leads a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with a local SME (small and medium enterprise), which aims to improve their bottom line by rationalising, modernising and securing various web properties, and has an interest in enhancing students' learning using modern technology and pedagogy.
James has a Mathematics with Astrophysics BSc, a Dynamical Meteorology PhD and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. He is serving on the Board of Governors as a representative of the Academic Board. James is a member of the Estates Committee.
Sara Drake
Sara Drake is managing director of the Royal Town Planning Institute, prior to which she was managing director of the Home Builders Federation. Previous roles include head of group legal and business affairs for Medal Entertainment and Media Plc and managing director of HallMark IP Ltd.
Sara is a non-executive director of Swan Media Ltd and Constant Air Systems Ltd. She is also a council member of the Mayfair and St James Association and a foundation governor of St Stephen's School in Twickenham.
Sara is chair of KUSCO (Kingston University Service Company Ltd) and KUCEL (Kingston University Campus Enterprises Ltd). She is also a member of the Estates Committee and chair of the Chaplaincy Committee.
Bruce Fraser
Bruce's professional career has spanned a diverse array of sectors, including investment/merchant banking in corporate finance and capital markets in New York and London; industry (in energy services, information technology and telecommunications) as chief financial officer/finance director of a number of venture capital-backed companies; and education management as bursar of Stowe School in the 1990's, and, since 2004, bursar of Mill Hill School Foundation in North London.
Bruce is also a governor of Kings School in Ely, Edge Grove School near Aldenham, Quainton Hall School in Harrow, and is a trustee of the TreeHouse Trust (a national autism school and charity).
He is also a member of the Plans Committee of the Hurlingham Club in Fulham; the Feltmakers livery company in the City; the Pilgrims Society of the UK (dedicated to promoting Anglo/American relations); and the Independent Schools Bursars Association.
Bruce was born near Chicago, Illinois and spent his early years in the Midwest of the USA. He was educated at Northwestern University where he achieved a BsBA degree (economics and accounting) and an MBA (international finance).
He is a member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
Lesley Granger
Lesley Granger is an independent consultant who has worked both in the public and private sector as an HR professional. Most recently she was the director of HR for the BBC's Global News Division, which includes the BBC World Service and BBC World TV.
During her early career, Lesley specialised in employee relations at a time of industrial strife in the UK, working in the car industry (British Leyland at Cowley, Oxford), the Commission on Industrial Relations and British Airways. She is a masters graduate of Kingston Business School and is a certified executive coach.
Lesley is Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors and Chair of the Nominations and Governance Committee.
Robert Green CBE
Robert Green's career as a senior civil servant included policy responsibility in the Education Department for many aspects of education, including special education and the legislation establishing the National Curriculum. He worked on higher education policy on secondment to the Australian government, and in the Cabinet Office on leadership development for the civil service and wider public and private sectors. Until his retirement in 2007, Robert was an executive director of Ofsted, with responsibility for corporate services and organisational change.
Robert is now a policy consultant in the public and not for profit sectors. Among his non-executive and voluntary roles, he represents education interests on Action for Children's committee for England and advises the Churches Conservation Trust. He is studying part-time for a higher degree.
Robert is Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee and ex-officio member of the Nominations and Governance Committee.
Frank Kennedy
Frank has a career in finance and financial markets. After graduating from Oxford University, he spent over 25 years in the City of London, where he worked for Hambros, SG Warburg, Swiss Bank Corporation and UBS. In earlier years he was a top-ranked (Extel and Institutional Investor) investment analyst. More recently he was a managing director in Capital Markets at UBS for nine years, where he headed a European team advising private companies and public sector institutions.
He is currently a postgraduate student of Economic History research at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
He is Chair of the Finance Committee and Chair of KUEL (Kingston University Enterprises Ltd) and ex-officio member of the Estates and Nominations and Governance Committees.
Professor Peter Kopelman
Peter Kopelman is Principal of St George's, University of London. Prior to this he was Dean of the Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia; and Vice-Principal of Queen Mary, University of London and Deputy Warden of the Medical and Dental School.
Peter is a graduate of St George's and undertook most of his junior doctor training at St George's Hospital. He has been closely involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and chairs the Clinical Examining Board of the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK) and the NIHR (National Institute of Health Research) Academic Careers Panel. He is also a member of UK Healthcare Education Advisory Committee.
Peter is a member of the UK Department of Health and Food Standards Agency Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, a member of the DH Expert Panel on Obesity; and science advisor to the Office of Science and Innovations Foresight Obesity Project. He is also a member of national and international committees on nutrition and academic affairs.
Sir Roderic Lyne KBE, CMG (Chair)
Sir Roderic was a diplomat for 34 years and served as British Ambassador to Russia from 2000 to 2004. Before that, he was UK Permanent Representative to the UN Office and other international organisations in Geneva (1997–2000) and Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (1993–1996).
He now works as a company director, consultant and lecturer, principally advising businesses on Russia and the CIS. He is a non-executive director of Accor and Aricom, Chair of the International Advisory Board of Altimo and member of the Board of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce. He is also Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies and a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
Sir Roderic is chair of the Board of Governors and an ex-officio member of the Estates, Finance, and Nominations and Governance, and People Committees.
Neil MacIntosh
Neil has had a 25-year career in human resources in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. He is currently HR director at the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), a science-based intergovernmental organisation (IGO) spanning 45-member countries and with global operations.
Prior to this, Neil was Head of HR Strategy at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Group HR Director at Dairy Crest Ltd and Director of Personnel at Napier University, Edinburgh. He has also held senior HR posts at Pfizer, Kingfisher Plc and Scottish & Newcastle.
Neil is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde.
He is Chair of the People Committee and an ex-officio member of the Nominations and Governance Committee.
Nona McDuff
Nona is the head of equality at the University, where her priorities are to raise awareness of equality issues among our staff and students and to identify and remove any barriers which inhibit their success and progression.
Nona joined Kingston University as a development and training adviser in 2005 before becoming head of equality in 2008. She has held a variety of academic and non-teaching positions and contributed to national educational projects. Early on in her career, she worked for a market research agency and undertook public relations activities for one of India's leading film studios.
Nona has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Studies, a Masters in Information Technology and a Certificate in Education.
Nona was elected onto the Board as the non-teaching staff governor and is a member of the Nominations and Governance Committee.
Sunitha Narendran
Sunitha Narendran is the head of the Department of Leadership, Human Resources Management (HRM) and Organisation at the Faculty of Business and Law.
Her background is in organisational psychology and HRM and she has published in a range of academic journals, including Environment and Planning, Journal of Risk Research, Journal of Social Psychology and the Journal of Trans-National Management Development.
Prior to her academic career, Sunitha worked in HRM roles in a number of multinational organisations in India including the Sheraton Group of Hotels, English electric Company of India and Best and Crompton Engineering Company of India. Sunitha joined Kingston University in 1999 from the National University of Singapore.
Sunitha's academic experience includes teaching at the MARA (Malaysia) and at St Joseph's College (Bangalore University). Sunitha is an alumnus of Birkbeck College (PhD in Occupational Psychology), National University of Singapore (Management by Research MSc), The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India (Personnel Management and Industrial Relations MA) and Madras University, India (Psychology, Sociology and Statistics BA). She is also an academic fellow of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development). Sunitha is a member of the Finance Committee.
Sue Rimmer
Sue Rimmer is the principal of South Thames College of Further Education, a post she has held for nearly ten years.
She has 30 years' experience in the Further Education sector, as well as seven years' industrial experience in research at Unilever. Sue is particularly interested in social justice and equality & diversity, and has worked as an equal opportunities trainer for the GLC.
Sue has represented the FE sector at national, regional and local level, and is currently a member of the Learning & Skills Council National External Advisory Group, the Black Leadership Initiative Advisory Board, the Women's Leadership Network Steering Group, the Helena Kennedy Foundation and the Learning & Skills Improvement Service. She has also been chair of the Association of Colleges, London Region; and a London Development Agency board observer.
Sue has a BA(Hons) in Sociology and Psychology and a postgraduate certificate in Education. She is a member of the People Committee.
John Ripley
John gained broad and extensive experience through a 35-year career with the Unilever Group, working internationally across different businesses. His roles included head of strategy, divisional CFO and group deputy chief financial officer.
He now enjoys a portfolio of non-executive positions. Within education, these include chair of a school partnership trust and governor at a Surrey secondary school and have covered a role at the Department for Education and governor at a primary school.
He is chair of two Christian charities and trustee of a third. He chairs the intergovernmental organisation CABI, which improves people's lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.
John has an MA in natural sciences from Cambridge University and an ACMA from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
He is a member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
Julius Weinberg
Professor Julius Weinberg joined the University as Vice-Chancellor on 1 April 2011.
Prior to this he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at City University London, having joined in 1999 as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and later holding the post of Director of the Institute of Health Sciences before becoming the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2006.
Julius qualified in medicine from the University of Oxford in 1979, and subsequently completed specialist training in infectious diseases, general medicine and public health medicine. His medical posts have included work with the NHS as a consultant and lecturer in Zimbabwe, with the World Health Organization in Bosnia during the Balkan conflict and as consultant and Head of Epidemiology Programmes for the UK Public Health Laboratory Service, now the HPA (Health Protection Agency).
Additionally, Julius was scientific secretary to the Standing Medical Advisory Committee report into antimicrobial resistance, and acted as specialist adviser to two House of Lords Select Committee inquiries into Infectious Disease Services in the UK and Pandemic Influenza. He was also non-executive director of the former North East London Strategic Health Authority.
Julius leads one of the General Medical Council teams inspecting the quality of medical education. He is Chair of the Board of the European Centre for Disease Control 'Wiki Project' to improve the handling of and access to infectious disease information. He is also a school governor.
As Vice-Chancellor Julius is a member of the Estates, Finance, Nominations and Governance and People Committees.
