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Our trustees Land Trust Annual Review 2018

Our Trustees oversee the work of the Accounts
organisation, ensuring we stay on track to
deliver our charitable objectives and providing
scrutiny to our processes and decisions.

Peter Smith – Chairman Simon MacGillivray
Peter was appointed Chairman of the Land Trust Simon is a chartered Forester and has had a
in June 2010. Formerly, he was a Senior Partner varied career working in a range of diverse
and member of the global leadership team at occupations including the banking sector and NHS.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He has also
been Chairman of Savills plc; Coopers & Lybrand Tom Keevil
International; Templeton Emerging Markets Appointed to the Board of Trustees in May 2016,
Investment Trust plc; and RAC plc. Tom has had a long legal career initially as a
partner in an international law firm and then, as a
Sarah Whitney senior executive, working most recently at Barratt
Sarah is a chartered accountant and former Developments PLC and United Utilities PLC.
investment banker, having specialised in real estate.
She holds a visiting Fellowship at the Department Patrick Aylmer
of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, Patrick is a Chartered Accountant, with 20 years’
where she teaches on planning, regeneration and experience of investment banking and mergers and
development. Sarah also serves as Chair of our acquisitions. He currently runs the property finance
Audit Committee. business of Fox Investments and was previously
Investment Director of a FTSE-100 company.
Jeffrey Moore Patrick is also a Council Member of the National
Jeffrey is a qualified accountant and previously Army Museum and a Trustee of the Battersea
CEO of East Midlands Development Agency. Dogs and Cats Home.
He is non-executive Director of Batemans Brewery
and Sharing in Growth, an aerospace supply chain Janet Haddock-Fraser
development company. Janet is an academic specialising in corporate
social and environmental responsibility. She is
William Hiscocks Professor of Sustainability and Leadership at
William has 30 years’ experience of working in financial Manchester Metropolitan University, a Fellow of
services, as an investor, portfolio manager and private the Royal Geographical Society and RSA as well
banker. He was honorary treasurer of Fauna and Flora as being an Associate of the Institute for
International from 1998 to 2000. William also serves as Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
Chair of our Investment Committee. and the International Coaching Federation.

Dinah Nichols CB Anthony Bickmore
Dinah is currently a Governor of Plymouth University Anthony is a widely experienced property
and a Trustee of the South West Lakes Trust and professional with substantial experience of property
until September 2016 was chair of Keep Britain Tidy. development and urban renewal projects. He has
She was formerly Director General Environment at held senior roles for the Crown Estate and Transport
Defra, a Crown Estate Commissioner, a non-executive for London and is currently working in the Shadow
Board member of Pennon Group plc and Chair of the Government Property Agency in the Cabinet Office.
National Forest Company and Groundwork
North London. Walter Menzies
Walter has a wealth of experience in the
Lady Garrett environment and regeneration sectors. He is a
Jane is a former Chief Executive of CL:AIRE and the visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool,
Brogdale Horticultural Trust and was on the Board Chair of Manchester and Pennine Waterway
of Covent Garden Market Authority. She has had a Partnership (part of the Canal and River Trust)
successful and entrepreneurial career operating in and a Board member of the Atlantic
the commercial, charitable and political sectors. Gateway Partnership.

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