Council of Management

Sir John Ashworth, CARA President, recently retired as Chair of Barts and the London NHS Trust. Other posts held include Chairman of the British Library Board; Director, London School of Economics & Political Science (1990-96); Vice Chancellor, University of Salford (1981-90); and Chief Scientist to the Cabinet Office Central Policy Review Staff (1976-81).

Professor Sir Robert Boyd, CARA Chair, served as Principal of the St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London (1996-2003) where he was also Professor of Paediatrics. Other posts include Pro Vice Chancellor of Medicine and Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of London, and Dean of the University of Manchester Medical School. He is currently Chair of the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales and Director of NHS R&D for Greater Manchester.

Professor Deian Hopkin, CARA Vice-Chair, became Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of London South Bank University in 2001. After a brief period in Queen Mary College London, he taught for 24 years in the Department of History at Aberystwyth and became Head of Department. For most of that time he was also a tutor at the Open University tutor and seconded there to develop new courses. Previous posts include Dean of Human Sciences (1991-96) and Vice Provost (1996-2001) of London Guildhall University (now the London Metropolitan University). He is Chair of the UNIAID Foundation and of the Skills Task Group of Universities UK and a Board Member of the Learning and Skills Council. Professor Hopkin was elected Vice Chairman of London Higher for 2006-8 and serves as HE Adviser to the London Skills and Employment Board, chaired by the Mayor of London.

Professor Paul Broda, CARA Honorary Secretary, was Professor of Applied Molecular Biology at the University of Manchester's Institute for Science and Technology and, until recently, a trustee of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Mr Mark Wellby, CARA Honorary Treasurer, is The British Academy's Finance Manager and a Chartered Accountant. He has been CARA Honorary Treasurer since 2002.

Dr. Jocelyn Alexander is Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies at Linacre College, University of Oxford. She specialises in the field of Southern African social history and, in particular, the history of agrarian politics and nationalism and guerrilla war in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Dr. Robin Baker is Vice Chancellor of the University of Chichester. He was previously Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Kent and Deputy Director General of the British Council. He joined the British Council in 1984, serving in South Africa, UK, Hungary, Greece and Russia. He was Director of the Council's European Operations (1999-2002) and has served as a member of the University of Kent Council and of the Royal Society International Policy Committee.

Professor Jo Beall is Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics & Political Science. Professor Beall is a specialist on development policy and management, with expertise on urban social development and urban governance. Other areas of interest include gender, social policy and international development, social exclusion, and local responses to crisis and conflict. She has conducted extensive research in Southern Africa and South Asia and has advised and consulted for a range of international development agencies, national governments and non-governmental organisations.

Professor Phil Begg is Associate Dean for Primary Healthcare, School of Health, from the University of Wolverhampton, and Visiting Professor of Clinical Science at the University of Kentucky. He joined Cara’s Council in 2007.

Dr. Michael Brophy is Director of the Africa Educational Trust. Under his leadership, the AET has undertaken a number of educational programmes in East Africa, Somalia, Southern Africa, South Africa, Swaziland, and Uganda. He also served as a lead researcher on a Department for International Development policy project, studying flexible working approaches to education in sub-Saharan Africa.

Mr Peter Brown, CBE, joined The British in 1975, holding the post of Secretary from 2006 to 2007. He was formerly at the School of Oriental & African Studies. He has taught classics at several UK and overseas institutions, and served on the Committees of Management for the Institute of Archaeology, the Institute of Classical Studies, and the Warburg Institute, University of London. He received an Order of Merit (Poland) in 1995, and has been a CARA Council Member since 1997.

Mr Stephen Cox CVO has served as Royal Society Executive Secretary since 1997. He was appointed Director General of the Commonwealth Institute in London in 1991 and, during the early 1980s, worked as the British Embassy Education Attaché in Washington DC. He joined the Royal Society in 1985 to run the International Office.

Dr. Frances Dow retired as University of Edinburgh Vice Principal in 2005. She was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of History. Dr Dow is a Member of the Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Excellence and a lay member of the Lothian Health Research Ethics Sub-Committee. She is also a Trustee of the Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) and a former member of the UK Marshall Commission.

Professor John Eastwood is Professor of Medicine at St George's, University of London, and Consultant Renal Physician at St George's Hospital. He is Director of the South West Thames Foundation School, and was until 2006 Director of the St George's Refugee Doctors Course.

Professor Lewis Elton is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, Honorary Professor of Higher Education at University College London, and Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at the University of Surrey. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Physics and of the Society for Research into Higher Education, and an Honorary Life Member of the Staff and Educational Development Association. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Kent, Canterbury, and the University of Gloucestershire. Professor Lewis Elton's involvement with CARA began when his father was assisted with a grant from the Society for Protection of Science & Learning (now CARA) in the 1930s.

Professor Carole Hillenbrand is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, which she joined in 1979 following a period working for the Ministry of Aviation. She was awarded a Personal Chair in Islamic History in 2000 and, more recently, the prestigious King Faisal Prize for Islamic Studies. Her research and publications focus on the history of medieval Iran and Turkey, the Crusades and al-Ghazali.

Mrs Anne Lonsdale MA, CBE, has been President of New Hall, Cambridge University since 1996. She was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1998 – 2003 and is now a Deputy Vice-Chancellor. She studied Classics and Chinese Language and Literature at Oxford and later taught Chinese Literature there. She became a university administrator in Oxford and then the Secretary-General of the Central European University in Budapest, Prague and Warsaw and has particular interests in environmental issues and in Higher Education worldwide with university experience in Europe, America, China, Africa and the Middle East.

Professor Alan McCarthy is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Liverpool, which he joined as a lecturer in 1985. He is also the Chair of Admissions and Recruitment for the School of Biological Sciences.

Professor Shula Marks OBE FBA is Professor Emeritus of Southern African History at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Professor Marks is among the world's leading historians of South Africa. She has published on African resistance to colonial rule and a history of healthcare, of race and of gender. Professor Marks was Chair of CARA's Council from 1993 to 2004.

Baroness Onora O’Neill has been President of the British Academy since 2005. She was elected a Fellow in 1993. She writes on ethics and political philosophy, with particular interests in questions of international justice, in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and in bioethics. She chairs the Nuffield Foundation and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She has been a member of and chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Human Genetics Advisory Commission, and was closely involved in work on a number of reports on bio-medical issues. She was formerly Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. She was created a Life Peer in 1999 (Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve), sits as a crossbencher, and has served on House of Lords Select Committees on Stem Cell Research and BBC Charter Review.

Professor Robert Pynsent is Professor of Czech and Slovak Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, where he also serves as Convenor of the Centre for the Study of Central Europe. Professor Pynsent's research interests include 14th-Century Czech literature, Czech Renaissance prose, nationalism in literature, decadence, contemporary Slovak fiction and Czech women's writing.

Mr. David Ure retired from Reuters Group in 2004, but continues to represent the company on the Independent Television News board. He also chaired the Reuters Foundation, the Group's charitable arm. He was non-executive Director of Woolwich Plc (1998-2000), a role he has also held on the Blackwell Publishing Ltd Board since January 2004. In October 2004, he became Chairman of Iris Financial Solutions, and has recently retired as a non-executive Director of Blackwell Publishing, Independent Television News (ITN) and Neteconomy, a Dutch company owned by Cazenove Private Equity.

Professor Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at the School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University. He also lectures at the University of Oxford. Professor Weindling has compiled a database on medical refugees in the UK, including over four thousand doctors, dental surgeons, medical scientists and biologists, and nurses who came to Britain to escape the Nazi regime during the Second World War.

Professor Michael Worton is Vice Provost (Research & International) at University College London (UCL) responsible for developing and promoting UCL’s international strategy. He is Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature and has written extensively on modern French Literature and on issues in critical theory and on gender theory. Michael directs the UCL Mellon Programme.

Professor Michael Yudkin is Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the Microbiology Unit, University of Oxford. He has been a Fellow of Kellogg College since 1993. He was formerly a Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry at University College, Oxford for twenty eight years and has published more than eighty papers in various scientific journals, and several books.