Shakespeare Schools Festival - Directors and Trustees

Directors and Trustees

Chief Executive, Penelope Middelboe

Festival Director, Chris Grace MBE

Development Director, Bhavita Bhatt

Finance Director, Claudia Timpson

Rupert Pennant-Rea(chair), Chairman of Henderson Group and Chairman of The Economist; formerly editor of The Economist and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and Chair of SSF since 2001.

Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the University of London Board of Trustees, and of Hampstead Theatre; and Governor of the Royal Ballet; formerly Director of Audio & Music at the BBC.

Andrew Jackson, founding partner of Stanton Marris, organisation consultants working at senior levels in strategy and leadership, with wide experience of government and the education sector.

Neil Mendoza, founder of Forward, a publishing company. Director of a variety of companies in the technology and media sectors. Served on the board of the Almeida Theatre and now on the board of the Soho Theatre.

Suzanna Taverne, member of the BBC Trust. Broad non-executive and executive board experience across the private and public sector including former Managing Director of The British Museum and Pearsons Plc. Currently on the board of the Design Museum and formerly on the board of Gingerbread.

Belinda Harley, writer and consultant, and experienced fund-raiser. Books include cookbooks on Harry's Bar and Annabels, and Mad About the Dog, a short memoir of life on Paxos. She is currently writing a book on the food, cooking and culture of Paxos for Hardie Grant.

Ambassador and former Trustee Sir Malcolm Field, formerly Chief Executive of WHSmith; non executive director of a number of quoted companies and more recently appointments in the public sector; served on the boards of the Royal College of Art and the English National Ballet School and currently President of the Devon Garden Trust.