Panel of Senior Advisers

The Panel of Senior Advisers was founded in 2008 to provide Chatham House with an experienced sounding board for our policy conclusions and help communicate our ideas at the highest levels in the UK and abroad.

Chairman: Lord Hurd of Westwell, UK Foreign Secretary (1989-95)

  • Lord Browne of Madingley
    President, Royal Academy of Engineering; and Chief Executive, BP (1995-2007)

  • Victor Chu
    Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong

  • Tim Clark
    Senior Adviser to G3 and Fleming Family & Partners

  • Suzan Sabancı Dinçer
    Chairman and Executive Board Member, Akbank

  • Mary Francis CBE
    Non-Executive Director, Centrica, Arriva and St Modwen; Director, Bank of England (2001-07)

  • André Hoffmann
    Vice-Chairman, Board of Roche Holding Ltd

  • Lord Jay of Ewelme
    Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign Office (2002-06)

  • Sir Paul Judge
    Chairman, Schroder Income Growth Fund plc; Deputy Chairman, Royal Society of Arts

  • Lord Kerr of Kinlochard
    Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign Office (1997-2002); Vice-Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell

  • Nemir Kirdar
    Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO, Investcorp

  • Marc Leland
    President, Marc E Leland and Associates, USA; Co-Chairman, German Marshall Fund of the United States

  • Rachel Lomax
    Deputy Governor, Monetary Policy, the Bank of England (2003-08)

  • Sir David Manning
    British Ambassador to the United States (2003-07); foreign affairs and defence adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair (2001-03)

  • Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge
    Chairman, Nomura International plc and Pirelli UK

  • Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE
    Chairman of the Independent Schools Council and The New West End Company

  • Sir Michael Rake
    Chairman, BT and EasyJet

  • Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
    President, Chatham House, Secretary General, NATO (1999-2003)

  • Andrés Rozental
    Former Mexican diplomat; founding president of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; chairman of ArcelorMittal Mexico; non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

  • John C Whitehead
    Founding Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, USA; former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs
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