The Board of Trustees

Lord Selborne KBE FRS (Chairman of the Trustees)

Chairman of Blackmoor Estate Limited and a Chairman of the Foundation for Science and Technology. Formerly: President of the Royal Geographical Society, Chancellor of Southampton University, Chair of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Chair of the Agricultural and Food Research Council. Kew Trustee 1993 to 1998.

Marcus Agius

Group Chairman of Barclays PLC since 1 January 2007 and Senior Independent Director of the BBC. Also Chairman of the Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Formerly: Chairman of Lazard London, Deputy Chairman of Lazard LLC, and Chairman of BAA PLC.

Tanya Burman

Currently a full time mother and a local resident. Formerly: Head of Development and Marketing at the Natural History Museum, Regional Director for the Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Appeal, Fund Manager for bankers Lombard Odier, MA in Natural Sciences (Cantab).

Andrew Cahn CMG

Chief Executive of UK Trade & Investment, a Department that is part of both the DTI and the FCO. Formerly: Director of Government and Industry Affairs at British Airways, official at MAFF, the Cabinet Office and the FCO, and Chef de Cabinet at the European Commission.

Richard Deverell

Controller of BBC Children's responsible for all the BBC's services for children. Formerly: Head of BBC News Interactive - responsible for the BBC News websites, BBC Policy and Planning and management consultancy at the LEK partnership. MA Natural Sciences (Cantab).

Professor Jonathan Drori CBE

Director of Changing Media Ltd, a London consulting group. Visiting Professor at Bristol University, specialising in misconceptions in science and in the uses of technology for learning. Adviser to public bodies on new media and audience strategies. Previously: Director of Culture Online at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Head of Commissioning for BBC Online, Head of Digital Media and Learning Channels. As an Executive Producer and Director, responsible for many television series in science, education and the arts.

Professor Charles Godfray FRS

is Hope Professor in the Zoology Department and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University. Until 2006 he was Director of the NERC Centre for Population Biology and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an honorary research fellow at the Natural History Museum and Rothamsted Research.

Professor Sandy Harrison

Professor of Climate Dynamics in Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. President of the INQUA Commission on Palaeoclimatology, Co-chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Palaeoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project, and Member of the Integrated Land Ecosystems and Atmosphere Project (iLEAPS) of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.

Timothy Hornsby

Chair of the Horniman Museum, Chair of the Harkness Fellows Association. He is an independent member of the Consumer Council for Water, a Trustee of the International Institute for Environment and Development and of the Charles Darwin Trust. He is a Governor of the Legacy Trust, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Consumer Engagement of The Food Standards Agency. In his previous career he was Chair of the National Lottery Commission, and before that occupied the Chief Executive posts at the National Lottery Charities Board (now the Big Lottery Fund), the Royal Borough of Kingston, and the Nature Conservancy Council, after a career in academic life and subsequently in the higher Civil service.

Richard Lapthorne CBE

Chairman of Cable & Wireless plc. A Trustee of Tommy's campaign.

George Loudon

Chairman and Director of a number of investment and other firms including Pall Mall Capital Ltd and Altius Associates Ltd; former Director of Midland Bank Plc and former Vice-Chairman of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Former Director of the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation. Board member of the Rijksakademie Beeldende Kunst (Amsterdam) and former Trustee of the Galapagos Conservation Trust. Trustee of the London Library. Educated at Balliol College Oxford and Johns Hopkins University in America.

Sir William Stewart FRS

Currently Chairman of the Health Protection Agency. Formerly: Chief Scientific Adviser, Cabinet Office, and the first Head of the Office of Science and Technology. Founding Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Dundee, Secretary of the Agricultural and Food Research Council, member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a vice-President of the Royal Society. Educated at Dunoon Grammar School and Glasgow University.