COUNCIL

Mary Elford is a non-executive Director of Barts and the London

NHS Trust and also of Camidoc, which provides out-of-hours
healthcare for five London boroughs. She is a member of the
National Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards and the
Department of Health’s Urgent and Emergency Care Governing
Board she is also a trustee of the Camden Society for People with
Learning Disabilities. Until recently she was also Foundation Director
of the North East Community Foundation. Mary’s background is in
retailing, having worked for the John Lewis Partnership for nearly 15
years in a range of senior positions.

Elizabeth Hall retired in March 2006 after more than 10 years in

the Financial Services Authority, working mainly on consumer
protection and public awareness. Elizabeth continued as a
consultant until 2009 on an FSA project under the National Strategy
for Financial Capability, aimed at raising the financial understanding
and confidence of consumers.

The early part of Elizabeth’s career was as a civil servant, initially as

a press spokesman in several departments including 10 Downing
Street and the Leader of the House. Later she spent three years as
Labour Attaché in Brussels. After leaving the civil service Elizabeth
had several other jobs, one of which was as Director of
Development of the University of Aberdeen, then planning for its
500th anniversary.

Elizabeth has lived in Mile End since the mid-90’s, and has been
active locally. Elizabeth is the lay Chairman of Bow Church PCC,
planning for its 700th anniversary just before the 2012 Olympics.
She is a member of the Court of Royal Foundation of St Katharine, at
Limehouse, a member of the Finance and Audit Board of Poplar
HARCA, and Chairman of the Bow Arts Trust. Elizabeth has been a
member of the Standards Board for England since 2006, and of the
Bar Standards Board, working on the professional regulation of
barristers. At Queen Mary, Elizabeth is a trustee of Queen Mary
Students’ Union and of People’s Palace Projects.

Jocelin Harris was appointed to the Council in 2002 on nomination

by The Drapers' Company, and is a member of the Finance and
Investment Committee, Honorary Degrees and Fellowships
Committee, Goovernance Committee and Remuneration Committee.
He is also a director of The Queen Many University of London
Foundation. Jocelin qualified as a solicitor in 1970 after graduating
with a law degree. For a number of years he was a director of a
private bank in the City. Since 1986 Jocelin has been running a
company providing finance to start-up and early-stage businesses.
He has been a director/shareholder of a number of public and
private companies. He is currently a director of some 8 active
private companies in the United Kingdom and the USA. These are
involved in a wide variety of different fields. He is also a director of
two quoted Venture Capital Trusts. Jocelin is also a trustee of The St
Peter's College Foundation.

Sir David Kitchin (The Hon. Mr Justice Kitchin) has been a Judge of
the High Court, Chancery Division, since 2005. In 2009 he was
appointed as Chancery Supervising Judge for the Midland, Western
and Wales Circuits and as a member of the Enlarged Board of
Appeal of the European Patent Office. Sir David was educated at
Oundle School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (MA). He was
called to the Bar in 1977; appointed a QC in 1994 and elected a
Bencher of Gray's Inn in 2003. Sir David was a Deputy High Court
Judge from 2001-2005 and was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to
hear Trade Mark Appeals from 2001-2005. He was Chairman of the
Veterinary Code of Practice Committee of the National Office of
Animal Health from 1995-2001, Chairman of the Intellectual
Property Bar Association from 2004-2005 and a Member of the Bar
Council from 2004-2005.

Simon Linnett Chairs the Finance and Investment Committee.

Simon Graduated from Oxford in Mathematics in 1975 and joined N.
M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd where he has been ever since. The
concentration of his activity has been in working closely with
government, particularly during the privatisation programme of
1980’s and 1990’s. His responsibilities now include the coordination
of Rothschild’s work for government globally, “Sponsoring” the
transport sector and looking after Rothschild’s offices in Asia. In
addition to QMC, Simon is an Advisory Board Member to the
National Railway Museum in York and, currently, is acting Chairman
of the Independent Transport Commission. He is also a Trustee of
the Queen Mary Foundation.

Vernon McClure has been a member of Council since 2002. A

history graduate of Westfield College, he was one of the first men to
be admitted in the 1960s, was Secretary of the Union, and
subsequently studied for a PGCE at Oxford. He was a member of the
Westfield Council for twelve years until the merger with QM as well
as Chairing the residence and catering committee for five years.
He spent his career in university administration having worked at
University College London, University of London Senate House
and finally as Academic Registrar of Imperial College London until
his retirement in September 2008. He is Chairman of the Governing
Body of St Christopher School, Letchworth.

After leaving Oxford, where he studied classics and philosophy,

Nick Montagu lectured in philosophy at the University of Reading
for seven years. Joining the Civil Service at 30, Nick held a couple of
health policy posts in the Department of Health and Social Security
(DHSS), before being seconded to the Cabinet Secretariat. He
returned to the social security side of DHSS, undertaking one of the
early “Rayner” efficiency scrutinies, and subsequently led the
secretariat for the Pensions Inquiry, which spearheaded the social
security reviews of 1983-86.

Nick headed the pensions and personnel divisions of DHSS, moving

to the new Department of Social Security when the DHSS was split
in 1988. He became head of personnel, finance and planning,
leading the establishment of the major executive agencies under
the “Next Steps” programme. From 1992-1997 he was at the
Department of Transport, overseeing the privatisation of the
railways and the competition to build the fast rail link to the Channel
Tunnel.

After a brief spell heading the Economic Secretariat in the Cabinet

Office, Nick became Chairman of the Inland Revenue, following an
open competition in 1997. He was Chairman until his retirement in
March 2004, leading the Revenue through the greatest changes in
its history, as it became a social as well as a tax collecting
Department and developed its e-services. He was also the
Permanent Secretary Diversity Champion for the whole Civil Service,
and chaired the Civil Service Benevolent Fund.

Since his retirement, Nick has been an advisor to

PricewaterhouseCoopers and a member of their Advisory Board. He
is a non-executive Director of the Pensions Corporation, Chairman of
the Norwich Union With-Profits Committee and adviser to the
Equiniti Group and to Crystal Umbrella. Nick also undertakes
numerous consultancy and speaking engagements, including work
with overseas governments; coaching for senior executives
contemplating a portfolio career; and writing on a wide range of
public administration issues.

Nick Montagu holds honorary doctorates from Middlesex and

Bradford Universities, and was appointed Knight Commander of the
Order of the Bath (KCB) in 2001, having previously been a
companion of the Order (CB).

David Thomas qualified as a lawyer in England and Wales in 1969

and as a lawyer in Ireland in 1991. He led a firm of lawyers with
offices in Liverpool and London. In 1997 he was appointed as The
Banking Ombudsman. He is now Corporate Director and Principal
Ombudsman of the statutory Financial Ombudsman Service. He is
also: a member of the steering committees of INFO and FIN-NET, the
International and European networks of financial dispute resolution
schemes; a member of the non-executive board of the Office of
Legal Complaints; a member of the Audit Advisory Committee of the
Scottish Public Services Ombudsman; and a member of the Court of
the City of London Solicitors’ Company. He is a past President of
Liverpool Law Society and was a Council member of The Law Society
for nine years.

John Yard is an acknowledged authority on Outsourcing and

Relationship Management.
Most of John’s career has been spent in the Public sector, working at
Board level, with extensive experience of managing Business
change across the spectrum from defining strategy and direction,
through to the delivery and operation of large scale Departmental IT
systems. As CIO at the Inland Revenue, John oversaw the original
outsourcing of its IT to EDS and the subsequent move away from
EDS to Capgemini.

Over the last five years he has operated as a freelance consultant

concentrating on Outsourcing, including providing an Assurance
function on Bids; Change Management and Relationship
management, with a particular focus on finding mutually acceptable
solutions when relationships hit problems and in advising
Programme Boards when they run into difficulty. He has had a wide
portfolio of clients on both the Client and Supplier side, including the
NHS, Department of Communities, Bank of England, Atos and
Microsoft. He is currently acting as the Interim CIO for Defra.