Charitable and Voluntary Activities, and Other Personal Data
Jon was awarded the OBE in 1994.
Moynihan is a Foundation Fellow of and, from 1995 to 2007, Chairman of the Campaign Board at Balliol College, which helped raise during his chairmanship some £35 million for the College and the Oxford Internet Institute. His leadership is considered important in transforming the College’s fundraising into a professional operation.
He was a founder member of the Dean's Council, MIT Sloan School of Management.
He was a member of the Dean's Business Advisory Group at the Said Business School from 1999-2006. Jon was instrumental in encouraging a major benefaction to the School for the Ernest Butten Professorship of Management Studies.
He helped found, and was until recently Chairman of, The Helen Bamber Foundation, a charity headed by Helen Bamber that works with refugee victims of human rights violations. Helen Bamber Foundation
In 2010 Jon was created a 'Distinguished Friend of Oxford'.
In 2012 he was appointed a Fellow of Gray's Inn.
Jon has been a Member of Council at the Royal Albert Hall since 2012.
Jon is a citizen of the United Kingdom and is married to Patricia Underwood, the Coty Award-winning hat designer and Board member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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