On 1 September 2005 a new 12 member Board of Trustees took on responsibility for the running of the National Trust under the new governance arrangements.
The 52 member National Trust Council is responsible for appointing the Board of Trustees, for advising and holding it to account and for acting as the Trust’s conscience in delivering its statutory purpose and representing the interests of the nation.
Sir William Proby, the National Trust Chairman comments;
'We believe that this combination of the representative body and the trustee body working together will provide both the strength and the necessary tension to ensure that an organisation like the Trust continues to deliver its core purpose, while working efficiently and effectively, as both a charity and a large and complex business.'
The Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Trust automatically became members of the Board of Trustees and, following a wide-ranging recruitment exercise, 6 members of the existing Council and 4 members from outside the Trust were also appointed - click on the names below for a brief biography of each:
Patrick Casement (Council Member)
Patrick Casement is Chairman of the National Trust’s Northern Ireland Committee since 2000 (and a member since 1998) and a member of Council since 1998.
Patrick is a Zoology graduate from Oxford and holds a Masters in Ecology. He is now a farmer running a large beef and sheep farm in Northern Ireland. He has previously served on the Northern Ireland Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside.
Sue Davies
Sue Davies has worked in museums for 14 years, as a curator, an education officer, a museum development officer and a museum director.
Her most recent job was setting up the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, which opened in 2005. She is now a full-time research student at the Open University's Business School.
Sue has gained experience of a broad range of public sector and charitable organisations and has a keen interest in access to and learning in historic environments.
Sir Crispin Davis (Council Member)
Crispin Davis has been a member of the National Trust’s Finance Committee for five years and was appointed last year by the Confederation of British Industry to serve on the Council.
Many of the key issues facing the Trust parallel quite closely those he has faced in his business career as a Chief Executive and Board member of a number of major public companies. These include Reed Elsevier (Chief Executive since 1999), Aegis Group (Chief Executive from 1994-1999), Guinness (Group Managing Director 1990-1993) and Proctor and Gamble (various positions from 1970 to 1990 latterly President, Food Division, North America).
Crispin also has a wide experience as Trustee/Advisor/Board member with a number of charitable bodies over the years including the Tate and Oxford University Press
Charles Gurassa
Charles Gurassa’s career has been in the travel, tourism and leisure industries in a number of senior positions including Chief Executive of Thomson Travel Group, Plc and a Senior Director of British Airways.
He retired from full time work in June 2003 to pursue a plural career and from a desire 'to put something back'. Since then he has been non-executive Chairman of Virgin Mobile plc, Phones4U, Alamo/National Rent a Car, Lovefilm, MACH and 7Days Ltd, a non-executive Director of Whitbread plc and an advisory board member of Alpitour.
He is a trustee of the children's charity Whizz-Kids and a member of the University of York Development Board.
Mark Jones
Mark Jones is the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Before that he was Director of the National Museums of Scotland having worked previously at the British Museum for 18 years in the Department of Coins and Medals.
He has retained an active scholarly interest in his specialism and has been closely involved in the creation of SCRAN which uses new technology to provide access to the collections held by museums, galleries and archives and to build web based educational resources drawn from them.
Among many appointments he is on the board of the Council for Museums, Libraries and Archives and the Crafts Council.
Hugh Matheson (Council Member)
Hugh Matheson is Chairman of the National Trust’s East Midlands Regional Committee since 1998 (Committee Member from 1994) and an elected member of the Council since 2000. He also serves as a member of the Executive Committee and was a member of the Governance Review Group.
Hugh is a farmer and businessman. He is director of an estate management company, boat race sports rights company and specialist advertising company. Hugh is also a very part time sports commentator and writer; most of the rowing for Eurosport.
He began work ‘on the tools’ as builder and is now half way through building a new house for Thoresby Estate to show the Pierrepont collection. Hugh is also a Governor Portland College providing entry to work training for disabled of all ages.
Professor Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips’s career has been in the field of environmental conservation both within the UK and internationally. Nationally, he successfully headed up the Countryside Commission for over 10 years. He has worked with the government, voluntary, academic and business sectors in relation to UK conservation and countryside issues for most of his working life.
Internationally, Adrian has had over 20 years’ active involvement in IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) and its protected areas work in particular.
Michael Quicke (Council Member)
Michael Quicke was elected to the National Trust Council in 2004. He was a member of the Finance Committee until the governance changes in 2005, and is currently Chairman of the Audit Committee and Investment Committee.
Michael is Chief Executive of CCLA Investment Management, which manages funds on behalf of charities, church bodies and local authorities. Before Joining CCLA, he was Chief Executive of Leopold Joseph, a banking and investment management business quoted on the London Stock Exchange.
From 1999 to 2004, Michael served as Joint Chairman of the Financial Services Authority Small Business Practitioner Panel and he was also a member of the Financial Services Practitioner Panel.
He is also a non-executive director of JPMorgan Fleming Smaller Companies Investment Trust, and a partner of the family farming and cheese-making business based in Devon.
Simon Timms (Council Member)
Simon lives in Devon. As well as being a Trustee he has been a Council member since 2002 and is the Chairman of the Governance Handbook Working Group. He was also a member of the Archaeology Advisory Panel from 1989 to 2005 and its Chairman in 2002 to 2005. He also served on the Properties Committee in 2002 to 2005.
Simon is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Formerly County Archaeologist for Devon, he is employed as Head of Culture by Devon County Council.
Educated at Oxford and Exeter, he has a degree in Classics and postgraduate qualifications in Archaeology and in Education.
Mary Villiers OBE (Council Member)
As well as being a Trustee, Mary is also a member of the Council, the Appointments Committee and the Senior Management Remuneration Committee. She also served on the Selection Boards for the Director-General in 2000 and Chairman in 2002. Mary was Chairman of the Kent & East Sussex Regional Committee from 1995 to 2002 and the South East Regional Committee from 2003-04. Formerly Editor of the House of Lords Official Report (Hansard) and before that a freelance editor, translator and interpreter working for various United Nations agencies and other international bodies. Mary is particularly interested in the arts and architecture and has been Southern Region Chairman of The Art Fund (NACF) for a number of years and, as a Deputy Lieutenant in Kent, co-ordinated the Lieutenancy's support for the arts in the county.
Other main interests include gardens and gardening. She is a member of Canterbury Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and, having recently moved to Buckinghamshire, has been appointed a Deputy Lieutenant and Trustee of the Buckinghamshire Historic Churches Trust.
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