John is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (FCIIA). He has over 25 years' experience working in the internal audit, risk management, business improvement and governance fields. He lives in Oxford, but is rarely at home as he is fortunate to work with internal audit and risk management teams across the world. John is an Independent Internal Audit Committee Chair, has been Chief Assurance Officer for the States of Guernsey and runs his own training company, JC Audit Training Ltd. He specialises in cost effective internal audit training delivery, advisory work and external quality assessments. John is also a member of the Audit Committee for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of WaterAid, a fantastic international charity.

Colette has almost 15 years of experience in the HE sector with an in-depth understanding of HE governance, leadership and management. She has held previous governance and policy roles at the University of Winchester, Bournemouth University, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and HEFCE.

As Director of Estates and Facilities Management Graham leads the strategic development and operational management of the University’s two campuses, in Loughborough and London. 

Before his appointment at Loughborough, Graham was a director in KPMG’s management consulting operations practice based in Canary Wharf, London. He joined KPMG in 2015 after a full career in the Royal Air Force retiring in the rank of Air-Vice Marshal. Graham’s last military appointment was as the Assistant Chief of Defence Staff responsible for the logistics support of all UK Armed Forces in the UK and on global operations. His military career included a blend of operational leadership and pan-defence business focused appointments.

Rachael is Deputy Director of the Institute for Susiness Ethics and is responsible for their research programme and advisory and training services.

Rachael has collaborated with senior leaders across business, charities, communities, local and central government. After gaining her first degree in Politics and History from the University of Durham, and a Masters in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics, Rachael worked in Westminster, then for Carers UK, for UNISON, the public sector trade union, and for the TUC, on skills policy. She was at Business in the Community for over ten years, as an expert in workplace diversity and then in education business partnerships. As a Director at BITC, she worked closely with the Department for Work and Pensions, the then Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and business leaders from Aviva, Barclays, Nationwide, UBS, McKinsey and many more.  Her most recent role was on the SLT of Speakers for Schools as it scaled its delivery of opportunities for young people. 
 
Rachael was an elected local councillor for ten years and served as leader of the Labour Group on Tower Hamlets Council. In 2019 Rachael gained an MSc from Birkbeck, University of London, in Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, with a dissertation focussed on how boards communicate their community engagement.

Fiona Case leads the internal audit services at the University of Plymouth where she is Head of Internal Audit. She has extensive experience in leading internal audit and risk management teams in the private and public sector. Her experience spans across Education, Retail, Local Government, and the Charitable sector. She is keen to develop stakeholder relationships and collaborative ways of working, to drive the value internal audit can add to organisations. 

As the CEO of the University of Hertfordshire Students’ Union, Rebecca is responsible for leading the work of the Union’s staff team.  The Students’ Union is the representative body for students at Herts and employs a staff team of 40 permanent and more than 100 student staff and supports over 1,000 student volunteers (in the form of student reps and student society committee members).  The SU deliver a range of services for students at UH, including: a free and confidential advice centre, student-run societies, student voice initiatives, student focused events and activities, and the Forum nightclub.  Prior to joining HSU, Rebecca’s background was in communications and customer engagement, and in addition to her role within the SU, Rebecca is a Trustee of The Change Project, a domestic abuse and counselling charity based in Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Norfolk.

Penny is CEO and Founder of Marketing Partnership, a specialist consultancy for Higher Education Marketing. The team has supported over 35 institutions over the last five years and Penny has worked in Higher Education marketing, admissions and student recruitment for 25 years.

In her previous role as Director of Marketing and Communications on the Executive team at Nottingham Trent University, the institution became the largest recruiter of undergraduate students in the UK. Penny is a chartered Fellow and a Non-Executive Director of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Alison has an extensive background in higher education finance. Prior to Southampton she was Chief Financial Officer at Plymouth University, Director of Financial Operations at Cardiff University, and Deputy Director of Finance at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). She has also held a number of roles at the Office for National Statistics, including as Head of Financial Strategy.

In her current role she is accountable for the overall financial performance of the University, ensuring that the University and its subsidiaries operate financially effectively, efficiently, and sustainably through a clear financial strategy and an effective financial management framework. She also plays a key role in enabling successful delivery of Southampton's University strategy.

Chaitali is the Head of Research Compliance at the University of Bristol. She is a qualified solicitor with over 17 years’ experience in the private legal sector, before joining the HEI sector in 2021. She began her career in higher education as a team of one just as the sector was waking up to the impact of expanding national security regulation, developing widespread awareness, training, and understanding of how partner engagement and research collaboration can be safeguarded in a shifting geopolitical landscape. She has designed and developed process and policy in a heretofore unknown area at the University and secure growth of the team to eight members by the end of 2024.

The Team is responsible for advising senior management and academics across the breadth of the institution in relation to the application of Export Control Regulations, the National Security & Investment Act, the Nagoya Protocol and ABS legislation, UK Subsidy Control and the Trusted Research agenda. Chaitali is also leading the implementation of a project to bring the University from “Foundation” through to “Developed” status of the NPSA’s Trusted Research Evaluation Framework.