Trustees, Governance & Financial Statements

President, Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, and former Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 2002-2024. Education: University of Alberta; Magdalen College, Oxford. Fellow, Magdalen College, 1990-2002. Founder, Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (1993). Served 2002-2015 and since 2017.

Dapo Akande is Professor of Public International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government, a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). Before moving to the Blavatnik School, he was Professor of Public International Law at Oxford Law Faculty and was, from 2012 to 2017, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations. He has held visiting professorships at Yale Law School, the University of Miami School of Law and the Catolica Global Law School, Lisbon. He was the 2015 Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne Law School’s Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law. Before taking up his position in Oxford in 2004, he held positions at the University of Nottingham and the University of Durham, and from 1994 to 1998, he taught part-time at the London School of Economics and at Christ's and Wolfson Colleges, Cambridge. Served since 2020.

Co-Founder, ABRY Partners. Education: University of Florida; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; Harvard Law School. With ABRY Partners since founding in 1989, Chairman 1989-2012. President, Paradigm, since 1993. Founder, Johns Hopkins' Magic That Matters Foundation, 2011. With University of Florida's endowment investment company (UFICO), Chairman since 2012. Served since 201​4.

Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, reporting to the U.S. Secretary of Defense. In this role, Doug oversees efforts to accelerate the Department's adoption of commercial technology throughout the U.S. military. Vice President, of Apple, Inc, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Led Apple’s worldwide businesses in education, health, and public sector.   Education: B.A from Yale, M,Phil, International Relations from Oxford, member of New College.  Led Apple’s businesses in the Americas and Northeast Asia from 2014-2019,  Previously, led Apple Northeast Asia from 2010 to 2014, while resident in Tokyo.  Former SVP and Chief Strategy Officer of Charles Schwab (2005-2009). Former partner at McKinsey & Company in the US, China, and Southeast Asia (1994-2005).  US Navy Reserve Captain, Iraq and Afghanistan veteran.  Member of the US Secretary of State’s nonpartisan Foreign Affairs Policy Board, Executive Advisor to US Chief of Naval Operations and Special Operations community leadership.  Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security, Board of Advisors of Yale’s Jackson Institute on Global Affairs and Council on Foreign Relations. Served since 2020.

Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, since 2007. Director, The Oxford Research in the Humanities (TORCH), since 2015. Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College. Education: Rhodes University; St John’s College, Oxford. Hildred Carlile Professor of Literatures in English, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2004-7. General and Founding Editor, Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series, Oxford University Press, since 2004. Fellow of the English Academy, since 2005. Editorial Boards. Trustee, Charlie Perkins/Aurora Education Foundation, UK, since 2010. Man Booker International judge 2013-15. Honorary Doctorate, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2009. Served since 2016.

Charlotte is Professor of Structural Bioinformatics - Department of Statistics, University of Oxford and Fellow, St Anne’s College, Oxford. She is also co-director of the Systems Approaches to Biomedical Research Centre for Doctoral Training and leads the Oxford Protein Informatics Group.  From January 2024, Charlotte will be Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. From 2022 to 2023, Charlotte was Chief AI Officer at Exscientia. She served on SAGE, the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and acted as UK Research and Innovation’s COVID-19 Response Director. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to COVID-19 research. She has held numerous senior roles at the University of Oxford including Head of the Department of Statistics and was previously the Deputy Executive Chair of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Served since 2022.

Mike Fitzpatrick is Chairman of Pacific Current Group (formerly Treasury Group Limited), an incubator of fund management companies.  He also holds a number of other non-executive directorships, including Infrastructure Capital Group, Carnegie Clean Energy Limited and Latam Autos Limited. He has over 40 years in the financial services sector. Committed to sustainability, Mike and his associated interests have made a range of sustainable investments in renewable energy generation and technology development, as well as energy efficiency and sustainability. In January 2019, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. Served since 2018.

In her public law practice, Dr Guruswamy has argued in some of the most complex and high-profile disputes before the Supreme Court of India. In her private law practice, she has a broad practice in the areas of commercial law and criminal law. Dr Guruswamy started her law practice in 1997 in the Chambers of the Attorney General for  India.  She later practiced law in New York as an associate at the law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell. She is admitted to the bar in New York and in India. Education: Doctorate in Law (DPhil) and Masters in Law (BCL) from Oxford University, a Masters in Law (LL.M) from Harvard Law School and a degree from the National Law School of India, Bangalore. Dr Guruswamy has held visiting academic positions at leading universities and also has experience with constitution-making and law-making projects in Nepal and South Sudan undertaken for multi-lateral organisations, including the United Nations. She was on Foreign Policy magazine’s list of 100 most influential Global Thinkers for 2019, and was listed (with Arundhati Katju) on TIME Magazine’s 2019 list of 100 most influential people.

Chairman Emeritus, Cornell University, after serving as Chairman of its Board of Trustees from 2012-2022. CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative from 2007 to 2017.  Investment banker at Goldman Sachs from 1987 to 2003, serving as Partner and Global Co-head of the Communications, Media, and Entertainment Group. Corporate lawyer from 1981 to 1987 in the New York and Paris offices of Davis, Polk and Wardwell. Director of the Clinton Foundation and the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Henry Street Settlement. Education: BA, Cornell University; BA/MA, Oxford University (St. John’s); JD, Yale Law School.  Served since 2022.

Recently retired from a legal career in corporate law. Partner of Slaughter and May from 1983 to 2012. Now active in several charitable organisations within the education sector. Education: New College, Oxford. Served since 2014.

CEO and Founder of Charles River Medical Group, she is an infectious disease physician and immunologist, with primary focus in HIV medicine. She has held positions as Senior Director Biology and External Innovation at the multinational biopharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences; Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; Boston Faculty; Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT; Harvard Temporary Senior Lecturer; University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Consultant; and a Physician at Parirenyatwa Hospital and Parirenyatwa Hospital Family Care Centre. Education: Completed her undergraduate studies at Smith College, her graduate studies at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and her medical training at Harvard Medical School. She did her clinical training in internal medicine at the University of Washington and fellowships in Infectious Disease and HIV at MGH. Served since 2016.

Inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, which opened at Mansfield College in  October 2017.  Education: University of Cape Town, earning a BA and LLB, and then a LLM from the University of Sydney. She served as one of the first judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 – 2009 and as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia from 2010 - 2016.  She is an honorary bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of seven  honorary degrees. She has also sat on the boards of many NGOs working in the fields of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and equality.  Served since 2018. 

President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies (through 2020) and Chair, Atlantic Institute Governing Board. Education: AB, Occidental College; M.A. in Foreign Affairs and J.D., University of Virginia. 30 years in executive positions with The Atlantic Philanthropies and General Atlantic Group Ltd., the foundation’s international investment subsidiary; Counsel to former US Senator, Russell Feingold; Resident Law Lecturer, East China Law School (Shanghai); private law firm practice in US and Asia. Served since 2020.

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of Web Science.  He is Principal of Jesus College Oxford and a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Oxford. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.  In 2009 he was appointed Information Advisor by the Prime Minister and, working with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, led the development of the highly acclaimed data.gov.uk website.  In 2010, he joined the UK government’s Public Sector Transparency Board – overseeing Open Data releases across the public sector.  He was knighted in 2013 for ‘services to science and engineering’. At Oxford he has focused his research in human centred AI in a wide range of applications.  Most recently he was asked to lead the setting up of the Oxford Institute of Ethics in AI. With over 500 publications, he has researched and published on topics ranging from cognitive psychology to computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence to the Semantic Web. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society. In 2025 Sir Nigel was appointed to the UK's Council for Science and Technology to advise the Prime Minister and the Cabinet on strategic science and technology issues. Served since 2023.

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Stamos Capital Partners.  Education: Stanford University; Harvard Law School; Worcester College, Oxford. CEO, Stamos Associates, Inc. (SAI), a Perot Systems Company. Chief of Staff and Chief Economist for U.S. Senator Bill Bradley. Consultant with McKinsey & Company. Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Chairman of the Investment Committee for Stanford University Hospital and Clinics, 2002-2010. Chairman of the Investment Advisory Board for Major League Baseball, 2007-2017. Served since 2018.

Bob is the global managing partner of McKinsey & Company and chairs the firm's board of directors. His focus is ensuring McKinsey lives up to its dual mission of helping our clients realize lasting and substantial improvements in their performance; while also attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people in an inclusive culture.

Bob is a founding member and chair of the African Leadership Group Advisory Board, and on the boards of the US China Business Council, New York City Jobs Council, and FCLTGlobal. He is an active member of the Business Roundtable, Asia Business Council, Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board, and Trilateral Commission.

Bob is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Oxford. He serves in a personal capacity on the board of QuestBridge, the advisory board of USA Water Polo. He is also a private pilot. Bob is married to Ashley, and they have three children.

Served since 2018. 

Fred Swaniker is on a mission to bring better leadership to Africa and the world. He leads the African Leadership Group - an ecosystem of organizations that aims to catalyse a new era of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders for Africa. Over the past 15 years, he has founded and led African Leadership Academy, African Leadership University, African Leadership Network and The Room — a community of global leaders committed to unlocking opportunities for undiscovered talent, starting in Africa. Collectively, these endeavours aim to transform Africa by developing 3 million African leaders by 2035. Fred previously worked as a McKinsey consultant before earning an MBA from Stanford and
becoming an entrepreneur. He has been recognized as one of the top 15 emerging social entrepreneurs in the world by Echoing Green; as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum; as a TED Fellow, and as an Aspen Institute Fellow.

He holds honorary doctorate degrees from Macalester College, Middlebury College and Nelson Mandela University. He sits on the boards of the Rhodes Trust and the Graca Machel Trust, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of Waterloo University (Canada) and the Creating Shared Value Council at Nestle. In 2019, Fred was recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Served since 2022. 

Canadian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. Senior Advisor at Radical Ventures 2019. Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company, 2009-2018. Education: University of British Columbia; Brasenose College, Oxford. McKinsey's Chairman for Asia, 2004-2009, based in Shanghai; led McKinsey’s office in Korea, 2000-2004. Member, Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Leadership Committee; Asian Development Bank Advisory Group on Human Resources Management. Chairman, International Advisory Committee to the President of South Korea on National Future and Vision. Served as a Trustee since 2010, and as Emeritus Trustee since 2019.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Clayton Dubilier & Rice, New York. Education: Harvard College; Balliol College, Oxford; Harvard Law School. With Clayton Dubilier & Rice, New York, since 1989; CEO since 1998. Chairman of the Global Steering Committee (now Development Committee), Rhodes Trust, since 2007. Managing Director, Kidder Peabody & Co, 1985-1988. Co-chairman, Cancer Research Institute, New York. Senior Vice-Chairman and Trustee, Mount Sinai Medical Center. Member, Dean’s Council, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Served as Trustee since 2010, Rhodes Trustee Emeritus since 2023.

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Robertson Foundation. Director: WPP plc, Blackstone, Aurora Energy Research. Chairman: Study Group Limited, BMT Group Limited. Educated: University of Auckland; Worcester College, Oxford. President of Robertson Foundation Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford, 2004-2009. Vice-Chancellor, University of Auckland 1999-2004. Served as Chair of the Rhodes Trust since 2011 and as Chair Emeritus since 2019.

Board Chairman and Managing Director, Makena Capital Management. Education: Princeton University, Stanford University, Merton College, Oxford. President and CEO, Stanford Management Co., 2000-2006. Director, C3. Advisory boards of Nvidia, Accel Ventures and Silver Lake Partners. Served as a Trustee since 2007, and as Emeritus Trustee since 2019.

Founder and President, McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital. Second Century Founder of the Rhodes Trust and awarded the Oxford Sheldon Medal in 2017. Education: McGill University; Wadham College, Oxford; Harvard Business School. Founder, President and CEO, Trader Classified Media, 1987-2006. Chairman, European Climate Foundation, since 2008. Land and sea commercial pilot. Served as a Trustee since June 2010, and as Emeritus Trustee since 2018.

Chairman of Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. Director of Anglo American plc and Chairman of De Beers S.A. until 2012. Education: Harrow School & Christ Church, Oxford. Doctorate in Technology, honoris causa, from Technikon Witwatersrand in South Africa (2003), Presidential Order of Honor from Botswana (2004) and Honorary Fellowship from the London Business School (2009). Served since 2015.

U.S Magistrate Judge for the Central District of California since 10 August 2015. Judge Stevenson has been a member of the Editorial Board of the ABA’s Litigation News and Litigation Update since 2008 and served as Editor-in-Chief in 2014-15. She currently serves on the L.A. County Bar Association Litigation Section Executive Committee and is District Secretary for Rhodes Scholarship selection committee in Southern California. Judge Stevenson earned her J.D. with distinction at Stanford Law School; an M.A. in European History at Oxford University, England as a Rhodes Scholar and received her B.A. in History (Phi Beta Kappa) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead Scholar. Judge Stevenson was selected a Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star three times in 2005, 2007 and 2008 and nominated by the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles as one of the Top 100 Women Litigators in Los Angeles. She was named by Savoy Magazine as one of the nation’s Most Influential Black Lawyers of 2015. Served as Trustee since 2010; Trustee Emeritus since 2023.

Professor of Global Economic Governance, University of Oxford. Founder and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme and co-founder (with Robert O. Keohane) of the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. Inaugural Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Member of the International Advisory Panel of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, on the Board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. She is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Values, Technology and Governance. She serves on the Advisory Group of the Center for Global Development (Washington DC). Education: University of Auckland, Balliol College, Oxford. Served since November 2009.

President of the State Library of Victoria. Previously Managing Director and Head of Corporate Advisory for Lazard, Australia, since 2007. Education: University of Queensland; University of Oxford. Co-founder, Carnegie, Wylie & Company, 2000; acquired by Lazard in 2007. Investment banking experience in London, New York, Melbourne, since 1985. Chairman of Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust (chaired MCG Redevelopment Committee for 2006 Commonwealth Games) and Victorian Olympic Council’s Finance Committee. Member, Business Advisory Council, Said Business School, University of Oxford; Board, University of Queensland Endowment Fund; Finance Committee, Melbourne Grammar School. Served as a Trustee since 2010, and as Emeritus Trustee since 2019.