Governors and Ambassadors

Nowadays styling himself writer, musician and educationist, Bernard read music at Oxford before becoming a music teacher. In 1990 he was appointed head of an independent school in Wolverhampton, moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 2008, chaired the leading independent...

Sue Baillie joined Woldingham from Queen Margaret’s School for Girls, a day and boarding school, which, under Mrs Baillie’s leadership, won Small Independent School of the Year in 2023. Before moving to Queen Margaret’s in 2019, Sue was Pastoral Director...

Sophia Coles is a solicitor at Farrer & Co with an employment and safeguarding practice. She specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, and advises educational institutions, sports bodies and charities on safeguarding matters.

Gautam is a chartered accountant and a former senior audit partner at KPMG London. From 2000 to 2003 he was chairman and chief executive of KPMG’s practice in India, which he helped to establish. Gautam is a non-executive director of...

Richard Hill is an experienced senior executive and legal leader. He is currently General Counsel for Downstream and Renewables at Shell, and was previously a partner in an international law firm. He is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn and has...

A pianist and musicologist, Timothy has worked in higher education for the last 30 years, holding academic posts at St Peter’s College and St Edmund Hall Oxford, the University of Exeter, the Royal Northern College of Music and, since 2008,...

Christopher Liu is a Sussex-based consultant eye surgeon who works in Brighton, Inverness and Hong Kong. He is a keen educationalist and supporter of the arts. He was born into a medical family in Hong Kong. After attending boarding school...

Diana Salazar is a composer and music educator with over 16 years’ experience working in higher education. She is Director of Programmes at the Royal College of Music (RCM), having previously taught at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, City University...