Trustees and Ambassadors

Andrew Law is the Chairman and CEO of Caxton Associates, a forty two year-old global macro hedge fund.  Prior to Caxton he was Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, as head of proprietary trading in London.  Andrew attended a state school in Manchester and gained a First-Class Honours degree in Economics from the University of Sheffield in 1987.

His philanthropic interests include his role as a founding Chair of both AL Philanthropies (formerly Law Family Charitable Foundation) and AL Elevation (formerly Law Family Educational Trust) which sponsors a 16 school multi-academy trust in Greater Manchester.

Robert Peston is ITV’s political editor, presenter of the politics show “Peston” and the podcast “The Rest is Money”, and founder of our charity, Futures For All. He has written seven critically acclaimed books, including his two latest, “Bust?” – on how to fix the malaise in the UK and the West – and a thriller set in the financial crisis, “The Crash”. Peston has won more than 30 awards for his journalism, including Journalist of the Year, Specialist Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year (twice) from the Royal Television Society.

His blog is itv.com/robertpeston, and he is @peston on Twitter.

Sakhila, a qualified lawyer, has worked in the financial services sector for 15 years, covering the oil markets and then moving to the precious metals market. Most of her career has focused on providing legal, regulatory and compliance advice, and building corporate governance programmes.

Currently she is the President at Responsible Gold, the blockchain-powered ecosystem for traceable and ethically sourced gold. She will oversee the firm’s next phase of growth, with a focus on advancing the practical implementation of responsible sourcing frameworks and supporting innovation across Responsible Gold’s digital offerings.

Sakhila previously served as London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) deputy CEO and general counsel for over a decade, where she led initiatives on responsible sourcing, market integrity and standards development. She played a key role in shaping global policies aimed at improving trust and transparency within the gold supply chain.

In addition, she has key relationships with government officials and regulators around the world and has spoken at several conferences, educating stakeholders on the developments within the precious metals market. Sakhila read law at the London School of Economics and went on to qualify as a solicitor.

Roland Rudd is Chairman of Finsbury Glover Hering. He founded Finsbury 25 years ago and was Chairman throughout this time. He is a leader in corporate communications and provides personal counsel to board members and senior executives at the most critical moments for their companies.

Before Finsbury, he worked as a political and financial journalist primarily at the Financial Times.

He is Chair of Tate, Trustee for Futures For All, and the Bayreuth Festival. He is an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society and the Made By Dyslexia campaign and is Chairman of the Governors of Millfield School. He is also an Honorary Fellow at Oxford School of Corporate Reputation and Regents College, Oxford University.

Ruth Spellman has been a leader and champion of education and training in Further, and Higher education for the past 30 years, at Investors in People, at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, the Chartered Management Institute and at the Workers Educational Association. She served on the OU’s governing Council for 8 years and is a seasoned non executive director.

Highlights of her career are playing a key role in the formulation of education and skills policies, taking IIP into 33,000 workplaces, the award of an OBE for services to work place learning in 2007, and the lifetime achievement award from the TES for services to FE in 2020. Ruth is currently a Board member of the Education and Training Foundation, the Learning and Work Institute and a Trustee of Adviza which provides careers advice to young people and a 
career coach.

For the last fifteen years Ed has provided strategic reputational advice to globally significant individuals and organisations facing complex challenges, at a CEO and country leader level. Between 2021 and 2024, he was CEO of a consultancy based in London with offices in more than a dozen nations including South Africa, UAE, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Germany and the UK. 

Ed initially worked as a political adviser in the UK, before spending more than a decade as a journalist and adviser to the editor and proprietor at the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a senior counsellor to Ashoka, the global network of social entrepreneurs. Ed lives in London and Devon, and is chair of the trustees of Britain’s national oak collection.

Joe is CEO at StudentSafe who bring unique technology and specialist expertise to school transport, helping schools increase admissions, reduce hassle & costs and improve parent satisfaction.

Previously Joe has worked on the trading floor at UBS and then founded, grew and sold edtech business Firefly Learning. Edtech SaaS platform Firefly Learning helps 900 schools across 50 countries better connect their students, teachers and parents. Firefly raised the largest Series A in UK edtech and went on to raise a Series B, acquire and integrate two other edtech businesses, achieve profitability and then exit to PE backed US edtech leader Veracross.