Governors

Kieran Murphy, MA, was elected as a Governor of the Latymer Foundation in December 2020. He attended Latymer Prep and Upper schools, leaving in 1975, having been a beneficiary of a free place (LEA Scholarship) throughout his time in the Upper School.

Kieran read Natural Sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1979. He joined the civil service and spent eight years at HM Treasury before joining the UK investment bank, Kleinwort Benson. At KB and subsequently at Gleacher Shacklock, he specialized in corporate finance advice, working with some of the largest companies across Europe in the building and construction industry.  Over the last fifteen years, he has developed a portfolio of non-executive director and trustee roles, including chairman at Mears Group plc and Ordnance Survey and positions at the University of London and UCLH NHS Trust.. He is currently a director of Aliaxis SA.

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Mark Brewer, BA, was born in Ohio, USA in 1959, was educated in the UK at a comprehensive school in Lewes, East Sussex and has over 30 years of experience within international specialist staffing sectors.

He studied English Literature at the University of Bristol, moved to London and embarked on a career in recruitment. In 1986 he founded a specialist recruitment company, growing it into a global professional services recruitment consultancy with offices across Europe, Asia, Australia and the US. In 2017 he stepped aside into a non-executive board director role.

Mark remains an active Board Advisor for two international recruitment businesses in London and is a Board Director of Richmond Rugby.’

Mark has three Latymerian sons, classes of 2014 and 2017 and 2019. He has lived in Chiswick since 1991 and is married to Adrianne.

Chantal Free, MBA, joined the Latymer Foundation as a Governor in January 2018.

Chantal is an Executive Officer at Capita, a large business services firm listed in the UK, leading the People Solutions division. Her division assists large and complex public and private sector organisations around resourcing, learning, HR shared services and pensions. She joined Capita in October 2019, after over 20 years at Willis Towers Watson, a global risk and people advisory firm where she was responsible for leading the Western European operations of the Human Capital and Benefits segment.  Chantal studied Business Administration and completed an MBA at Imperial College. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal and Development (CIPD). Over the years, she has served on various business councils including the British Chamber of Commerce China Committee in Hong Kong as well as the CBI South East Regional Council in London. Two of Chantal’s three children are Latymerians. She speaks French, Spanish (intermediate) and Turkish.

Robert studied Modern History and Politics at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.  After graduating, Robert participated in the Teach First programme and taught History at Kingsbury School and Sports College in the West Midlands before converting to law.  Robert is now a Partner at Mishcon de Reya LLP where he specialises in employment and education law.  He is former Chair of the Industrial Law Society.

David was at Latymer Upper from 1967-1973. He has an undergraduate degree and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and Research Associate at the University of Chicago, and a Research Fellow at Clare College Cambridge, before moving to UCL in 1983 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. At UCL, he was appointed Professor at the age of 33, and later served as Head of the Department Earth Sciences, and as Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, before being appointed to his current position of Vice Provost in 2007.

He was awarded the Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain in 1999; the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2002; and in 2006 he was awarded the Louis Néel Medal of the European Geosciences Union for “establishing the importance of computational mineral physics in Earth sciences and for outstanding contributions to the physics of the Earth’s core”. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and an Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the Mineralogical Society of America.

He is chair of the Research Policy Committee of the League of European Research Universities, and is the Chair of Panel B for REF2021, having been a member of the RAE2008 sub-panel on Earth and Environmental Sciences, chair of the REF2014 sub-Panel in this area.

He was President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2004-6) and has been a Vice-President of the European Mineralogical Union. He has been a non-executive Director the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (2011-15); Chair of Governors of the UCL Academy School (2011-17); a Council Member of the UK’s STFC (2012-19); and was the inaugural Chair of the HEFCE Responsible Metrics Forum (2016-17).

Charlie Wijeratna, BA, attended Latymer between 1977 and 1986. He went on to read modern history at Worcester College, Oxford University.

Charlie started his career in sports TV production in 1990 with Sky Sports, making cricket, football and tennis programmes, before working in the city as a lawyer with Clifford Chance and as an investment banker with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. His career in the business of sport began in 2003 when he was one of the first members of London’s bid team for the 2012 Olympic Games and he remained on the Olympic and Paralympic project until 2010 as a director of the organising committee responsible for raising the private funding for the Games. In 2010 he became Commercial Director of Tottenham Hotspur FC before fulfilling the same role at the European Games and then at Aston Villa. He is currently working as a commercial consultant to sports rights holders, corporates and the UK Government. He has supported the school’s fundraising initiatives since 2011, originally as a member of the Development Committee. He was elected a Governor in 2015 and is a member of the Finance & General Purposes Committee.

Pauline Campbell is a retired Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she was a member of the firm’s UK Supervisory Board and Global Network Board.  Pauline worked with Company Boards across a number of industries, both private and public owned, through business cycles of trading, acquisition, disposal and raising finance.  As an Audit Partner, Pauline has wide experience of risk and quality assessment.

Pauline has also been a Trustee for a social business that supports primarily young adults in achieving their potential and is currently a Trustee for Catch 22 Multi Academy Trust

Jamie Grant, MA, is Global Chairman of Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan.

Jamie was born in London and grew up in Chiswick, attending both Latymer Prep and Upper Schools from 1968 to 1976.He was the beneficiary of a free place under the direct grant scheme in place at the time. He then read Philosophy and French at Worcester College, Oxford. Jamie joined J.P.Morgan in London in 1980, transferring to the New York Headquarters in 1987. He is currently a Global Chairman of Investment Banking providing strategic and financial advice to clients across multiple industries.

Jamie was formerly Chair of the US Friends of Latymer and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Inspiring Minds campaign whose focus is to raise funds for the Latymer Foundation.

Jamie is a Trustee of the National Public Radio Foundation and a Board member of the US Friends of Oxford University.

He is married to Nicola and has two children.

David Benson, BA,  was educated at St Paul’s School and then St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read Social & Political Sciences.

David is the founding Principal of Kensington Aldridge Academy (KAA).  As Principal at KAA, David has led the school from it’s opening with just one year group in 2014, to an “outstanding” Ofsted rating in 2017, and excellent GCSE & A level results, with over 50% of students progressing to Russell Group universities, and several to Oxbridge each year.

David led KAA through the challenging circumstances following the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017. The school lost 5 students in the fire and many were relocated from their homes. Due to the school’s proximity to the tower, it was forced to relocate, first to two local schools for the remainder of the summer term, and then to temporary buildings for a full academic year in 2017-2018.

Prior to his role as Principal at KAA, David worked for ARK schools, one the UK’s leading academy chains, for 8 years. He has co-authored a book about curriculum design, ‘Creating Outstanding Classrooms’ (Routledge 2013), and written in the national press about the value of state and independent school partnerships.

Leanne joined Vodafone as Chief Human Resources Officer and a member of the Executive Committee on 1 April 2019. She is responsible for leading Vodafone’s people and organisation strategy which includes developing strong talent and leadership, effective organisations, strategic capabilities and an engaging culture and work environment.

Previously Leanne was the Chief People, Strategy and Corporate Affairs Officer for Burberry Plc from 2015. Prior to that she worked for Diageo Plc for 15 years in a variety of roles, most recently as their Group HR Director. She has also worked in strategy and finance for Allied Domecq Plc, LEK Consulting and United Distillers.

Leanne was previously a non-executive director and member of the Nomination, Remuneration and Audit Committees at The Go-Ahead Group Plc.

Leanne is a current Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit, Corporate Responsibility and Nomination and Remuneration Committees at Compass Group PLC.

Leanne is a Trustee of the Vodafone Foundation and a Fellow of the Sutton Trust.

Zafar Ahmadullah is currently a partner and fund manager at Theleme Partners LLP, a private investment partnership based in London. 

He was educated at the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, after which he went to Mumbai University before heading to Magdalene College, Cambridge University where he read law. 

He started working at Schroders in London before setting up his own Fund Management business in 2005. In 2009 he moved back to India for 6 years and returned to London in 2015 to become a partner at Theleme.

Caroline Ng, MBA, joined the Latymer Foundation as a Governor in January 2025 having previously served on the Finance & General Purposes Committee. 

Caroline has an MA Mathematics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where she graduated with distinction as a Palmer Scholar. Her career has spanned consulting, finance and investing having started out at OC&C Strategy Consultants, followed by investment banking at Goldman Sachs and latterly 14 years at Richard Branson's family office, Virgin Management. At Virgin, Caroline was Managing Director leading the UK investment team, responsible for both investment execution and portfolio management. She has served as a director of various Virgin Group companies, to support the development and expansion of VIrgin's brand and equity interests across the world. She is now a non-executive director of Virgin Active and a freelance consultant working across strategy and M&A. 

Caroline is an accomplished athlete having competed internationally for Hong Kong as a swimmer and with bllues in swimming and rowing from the University of Cambridge. Caroline lives locally in Hammersmith where she continues to row and support the development of alumnae rowing. She has three children, one of which is a Latymerian. 

Hadi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.Eng. in Computer & Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut.

He began his career in consulting with McKinsey & Company before moving into leadership roles at technology companies including Meta (formerly Facebook), Airbnb, and Deliveroo. He later focused on education technology, leading Coursera’s EMEA and global consumer businesses. He is currently CEO of Coople, a digital staffing platform that connects companies with people seeking flexible work opportunities. Hadi lived in Hammersmith and now lives in Fulham with his wife and two Latymerian children.

Lesley's professional background is as a clinical psycologist with 25 years' experience in the NHS working in CAMHS and community adolescent forensic provision. Lesley was previously a Clinical Director in the NHS alongside holding a Programme Director role in Leadership at Anna Freud. Lesley now heads up the Clinical Help offer across the Schools Division for Anna Freud, a leading national charity supporting children, young people and their families using the best available evidence. She has oversight of several clinical teams, including one delivering remotely to provide mental health interventions for secondary school students across the country.