Patrons, Vice-Presidents and Governors

Patrons

HRH The Prince of Wales
Former President Vaclav Havel

Vice-Presidents

The Rt Hon. Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC
The Rt Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen GCMG Hon FRSE
The Baroness Warnock DBE
The Rt Hon. Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE
The Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG
The Lord Simon of Highbury CBE
Sir Peter Sutherland

The College is governed by a Board of Governors drawn from the Czech Republic and the UK and chaired by The Baroness Rawlings. Members of the Board hold honorary positions and are not paid.

Governors

Chairman
The Baroness Rawlings of Burnham Westgate in the County of Norfolk
Government Whip in the House of Lords, having spoken in opposition on International Development and Foreign Affairs. Member of the British Council; Governor of the American University in Bulgaria; Member of the Advisory Council of the Prince´s Youth Business Trust. Previously Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of Council of King´s College, London and President of National Council for Voluntary Organizations.

Vice Chairwoman
Ann Lewis CMG BA
Free-lance editor and consultant. Former Member of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service who spent most of her diplomatic career dealing with Central and Eastern Europe.

Vice Chairwoman
Mgr. Naděžda Mokrejšová
Former Head of International Relations Unit, General Directorate of the Civil Service, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic.

Richard Bassett
Formerly correspondent for The Times in Central & Eastern Europe and Rome and banker specializing in Central Europe, now Executive Director of WestLB.

Nigel Bellingham
Director of the British Council in Prague. Having begun his career as a teacher, Mr Bellingham has since worked for the British Council in the Middle East and central Europe.

Dr. Martyn Bond
Former European civil servant. Former Director of the Federal Trust for Education and Research. Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Oldřich Černý MA
Executive director of Forum 2000 Foundation and Director of Prague Security Studies Institute.

Dr. Barbara Day MBE
Writer, translator and Senior Fellow at the Prague Society for International Cooperation. Former Director of Jan Hus Educational Foundation (UK).

Vladimír Dvořáček
Partner in KPMG in the Czech Republic with responsibility for financial risk management.

Simon Eliot
Headmaster of Sherborne School 2000 to 2010. Former Chairman of HMC South West and Housemaster of Winchester College.

Jan Grozdanovič LLB
Solicitor admitted to practice in the Czech Republic and England based in Prague. Chairman of British Czech and Slovak Law Association and former member of the Board of the British Chamber of Commerce.

Greg Hands MP
Member of Parliament for Chelsea and Fulham and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Previously banker in London and New York before leading the Conservative group on Hammersmith and Fulham Council. Member of the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee and Chairman of the All-Party Czech and Slovak Group in the UK Parliament.

Ing. Jan Kovařovic LLB
Formerly with the Ministry of Education, PHARE, currently working at the Education Policy Centre at Charles University.

JUDr. Karel Kühnl
Former Minister of Defence and MP of the Czech Republic. Currently Czech Ambassador to Croatia having been the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the UK.

Nicholas Morris MA
Barrister. Now retired, having spent his working life in industry. Chairman of Governors of St Clare's, Oxford, and former Chairman of Governors of Malvern College.

Prof. PhDr. Lenka Rovná, CSc.
Chair of the Department of West European Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and a Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam. Author of a number of books on the EU and contemporary Europe.

Margaret Rudland
Former Head of the Godolphin and Latymer School, London and former Chairman of the GSA.

Ing. Zdeněk Tůma
Former Governor of the Czech National Bank.

Prof. Jiří Zlatuška
Currently Dean of Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University. Former Rector of Masaryk University in Brno and Member of the Senate of the Czech Republic.