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Board of Trustees
The Trust is governed by a board of trustees made up of leaders of integrity selected from civil society and the media, with representatives from civil society always in the majority.
The trustees reflect our diverse contemporary society and have the necessary range of skills and knowledge to lead this initiative; as individuals, they command widespread public respect for their expertise and independence.
The Board comprises:
Chair
Sir David Bell | Chairman, Financial Times Group
Deputy Chair
Julia Middleton | CEO, Common Purpose
Members
Mary-Ellen Barker | Journalist
Sir Cyril Chantler | Chairman, King's Fund
Geraint Talfan Davies | Chair, Institute of Welsh Affairs
William Davies | Goldsmiths College, London
Dame Amelia Fawcett | Chairman, Guardian Media Group; Chairman, Pensions First
Roger Graef | Films of Record
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
David Loyn | Journalist, BBC
Charles Manby | Goldman Sachs
Sir Philip Otton | Retired judge
Robert Peston | Business Editor, BBC
The Right Reverend Stephen Platten | Bishop of Wakefield
Anthony Salz | Executive Vice Chairman, NM Rothschild
Albert Scardino | Journalist
Sue Stapely | Quiller Consultants/Sue Stapely Consulting
Sir Robert Worcester | Founder, MORI
For more information on the Board Members, click here.
Director
Martin Moore is Director of the Media Standards Trust.
He has been working in news and media for over a decade, for the BBC, Channel 4, NTL, IPC Media, Trinity Mirror and others. He read history at Cambridge and holds a doctorate from the LSE where he was teaching and researching until summer 2006. His book, The Origins of Modern Spin, has recently been published by Palgrave MacMillan.
The Orwell Prize Administrator
Gavin Freeguard is the administrator of the Orwell Prize, and also works for the Media Standards Trust on its other initiatives.
A recent graduate of Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and Politics, he is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Prize, liaising with the judges, sponsors, publishers and the press, and maintaining the MST and Orwell Prize websites.