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  • "I am extremely proud to be a part of SpringBoard, which has the potential to bring some of the brightest students from underprivileged backgrounds to our top universities" Professor Michael Arthur, President and Provost of University College London

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  • "I am extremely proud to be a part of SpringBoard, which has the potential to bring some of the brightest students from underprivileged backgrounds to our top universities" Professor Michael Arthur, President and Provost of University College London

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  • "I am honoured to be personally supporting SpringBoard, and playing a small role in offering life changing boarding opportunities to pupils from low socio-economic backgrounds" James Darley, Director Graduate Recruitment, Teach First

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  • "I am honoured to be personally supporting SpringBoard, and playing a small role in offering life changing boarding opportunities to pupils from low socio-economic backgrounds" James Darley, Director Graduate Recruitment, Teach First

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Our Advisory Board

Lord Andrew Adonis

I was born in London in 1963 and educated at Kingham Hill School, a boarding school in Oxfordshire. I studied history at Keble College, Oxford, followed by a PhD in modern history and a fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, when I was also elected to Oxford City Council (from 1987 to 1991).

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John Attwater

John Attwater has been Headmaster of King Edward’s School, Witley, Surrey since January 2010.

Born in Rutland, he attended the Prebendal School in Chichester, where he was a Cathedral Chorister, before winning a scholarship to Rugby School. 

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James Darley

Teach First is an education charity that believes in the power of education as an agent of social mobility. They work with like-minded partners to give every child the right to an excellent education. The Leadership Development programme is central to their work; they recruit high-calibre graduates and experienced professionals with leadership potential to make an impact in classrooms, schools as across society.

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Dr. Andrew Gailey

The Vice-Provost, Dr Andrew Gailey, has taught in the history department at Eton College since 1981 and was a house master from 1993 to 2006. A graduate of both St Andrews and Cambridge, he is the author of numerous studies of Anglo-Irish relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular research interest in constructive unionism.

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Ray Lewis

Ray was born in Guyana, South America and came to England as a toddler where he was schooled. Married with three grown up daughters his thirty year career includes government service, pastoral ministry and a brief period as a prison governor at a young offenders institute in Milton Keynes.

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David Anderson

With a degree from Oxford in Maths and Philosophy and after 5 years in the British Army (The Royal Green Jackets) David started working in the City in 1983. He worked for Lazard and JP Morgan for 25 years in London, New York and Asia and started his own corporate finance business in 2008.

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Damon Buffini

Damon Buffini is a founding partner of Permira and was Chairman and Managing Partner from 1997-2010. Under his leadership Permira’s funds under management grew from €1.9 billion to over €20 billion and the firm’s number of offices has risen from four to twelve.

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Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans has a business background in finance, management consulting and education.  She has a mix of university degrees from Oxford, Western School of Business, in Canada, and University of Hong Kong in a range of subject areas from management, economics to psychology.  In 2006, she founded Westside School, which is now an academy in Hammersmith, giving 13-16 year old excluded youth a chance to get back on track and obtain their GCSEs.  Almost all Westside students are on Free School Meals, most have learning issues, some are Looked After Children. 

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Andrew Hunter

Headmaster, Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh since 1998; previously, Teacher of English and Housemaster of Army House, Bradfield School, Berkshire, 91-98 and Teacher of English and Religious Studies, Worksop College, 83-91.  Born and brought up in Kenya; attended Kenton College Prep; Aldenham School, Elstree and University of Manchester reading English, Theology and Biblical Studies.

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Colin Morrison

Colin Morrison is a former Assisted Boarding beneficiary and now chairman of the Royal National Children's Foundation (RNCF). He is a non-executive director of media companies in Europe and the AsiaPacific, having formerly been a journalist and CEO in the UK, Australia and the US.

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Prof. Michael Arthur

Professor Michael Arthur is the new President and Provost of University College London.  He was until recently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds and formerly Professor of Medicine (1992), Head of the School of Medicine (1998-2001) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences in Southampton (2003-04).   He is a hepatologist with research interests in liver cell biology developed initially at the University of California, San Francisco (1986-1988) and more recently as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York (2002). 

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Dr. Rachel Carr

Rachel Carr, OBE is the CEO and co-founder of IntoUniversity. She devised, implemented and managed the education programme at a local community centre between 2002-2007. In 2007 she became CEO of the newly established charity which now has 15 learning centres in London, Nottingham and Bristol and ambitious plans to scale up in other UK cities. 

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Dominic Fry

Dominic is Director of Communications and Investor Relations at Marks & Spencer. He joined in April 2009 from Tulchan.  Dominic started his career in 1982 working as a consultant for Traverse-Healy & Regester and then Charles Barker.  In 1989 he became Communications Director for AT&T in the UK before moving from there to head up communications for the Channel Tunnel in the mid ‘90s.

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Sir Peter Lampl

Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation

Peter Lampl is founder, chairman and principal funder of the Sutton Trust which aims to improve social mobility through education. Since 1997 the Trust has published over 160 research studies. It is also a ‘do tank’ initiating and supporting a wide range of programmes from early years through to access to the professions. He has given over £50 million of his personal fortune, and devoted 19 years of service to improving education in the UK.

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Prof. Dame Carol Robinson

Carol Robinson is a Royal Society Research Professor and Doctor Lee’s Professor of Chemistry Elect at the University of Oxford.  She is recognised for pioneering the use of mass spectrometry for her research into the 3D structure of proteins. Her most recent work is concerned with examining how small molecules, specifically lipids, impact on the structure and function of membrane assemblies.

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