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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
  
  
• David Mott
  Chief Executive and President, MedImmune, USA
  
  
• 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