continues a long family tradition of involvement with the Middlesex Hospital and the Charity. He is a director of Cazenove Fund Management Ltd, and brings his deep knowledge of investments to make sure that the Charity gets the best return on its investments, without taking unreasonable risks.
He has a great track record of personal involvement in charity, having sailed solo across the Atlantic in 2005 to raise money for Save the Children.

Mrs Sooty Asquith is Chairman of Governors of a large special needs’ school in Wandsworth and has 20 years’ experience of NHS hospitals, as she has a handicapped son. She was a publishing editor with HarperCollins for 20 years and is a fundraiser for The Challenging Behaviour Foundation.

Professor Sue Atkinson CBE is a Public Health Doctor. She was Acting Chief Executive, South East London Health Authority and Regional Director of Public Health at South Thames Regional Office and previously at Wessex and South Western Region. In 1999 Sue was appointed Regional Director of Public Health for London, at the Department of Health and developed the role as Health Advisor to the Mayor of London and Greater London Authority, from 2000.

is a partner in the law firm Farrer & Co, which is at the forefront of charity law. He was appointed Private Solicitor to Her Majesty the Queen in 2002. His experience of trust law has been of great practical help to us, and his commitment to charitable activities is shown by the fact that he is also a Trustee of the Leeds Castle Foundation and Chairman of the charity Music in Country Churches, and serves on the Board of Governors for several schools.

Professor Peter EllFMedSci Dr HC is a Senior Investigator with the National Institute for Health Research, who has authored more than 630 peer-reviewed full papers and 12 textbooks. His many international awards include the British Nuclear Medicine Society First Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Science in Nuclear Medicine (2009) and the Georg de Hevesy Pioneer Award Society of Nuclear Medicine USA (2008).

read Physiology at Oxford and did a D.Phil on neurotransmitters. She held successive posts with the Medical Research Council, and while on secondment to the Cabinet Office was Deputy to the Chief Scientific Adviser, before heading the policy divisions of the Agricultural and Food Research Council and then the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. More recently she spent 9 years as the chief executive of the Wolfson Foundation giving her experience of the issues facing grant giving charities.

is a retired consultant surgeon with a string of prestigious appointments to his name: clinical director of surgical services at the NHS Trust until 1999, Chairman of the Board of the British Journal of Surgery from 2000 to 2004 and currently Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons.