Dudley Fishburn - Not-for-profit Organisations

Not-for-profit Organisations

Fishburn has a long connection with universities on both sides of the Atlantic. He was chairman of the Trustees of the Open University Foundation. He was the first Englishman to be elected to Harvard University’s governing board, the Board of Overseers. He is on the Council of Reading University and a Trustee of the Foundation for Liver Research, which is affiliated to the University of London. His main interest is with the future of research libraries in a digital age. He currently chairs the Visiting Committee of the Cambridge University Library. For 10 years he chaired the committee for the foremost private library and research system, that of Harvard University’s schools and faculties. He won the Harvard Alumni award for this work. Fishburn serves of the advisory board of the Centre for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dudley Fishburn has worked for heritage organisations. He is chairman-elect of the Heritage of London Trust and chairs the Friends of the Silchester Archaeological Dig. For 10 years he was on the Executive Committee of the National Trust and was the National Trust’s Treasurer. Fishburn recently retired as Deputy Chairman of the Peabody Housing Trust. He is an advisor to the Bonita Charitable Trust, a grant-giving body and advises GML Ltd on its charitable donations.