Tim Stevenson has been President of Oxfordshire Community Foundation since 2008, when he was appointed Lord Lieutenant. He has an MA in Jurisprudence from Worcester College Oxford, was called to the Bar in 1971 and is a member of the Inner Temple. He has worked in senior positions at Castrol International, Burmah Castrol, Travis Perkins, Morgan Crucible and Johnson Matthey. His interests include hill walking, modern art, music and reading.

Sir Hugo is a former Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and is a sterling proponent of our work. An enthusiastic supporter of the installation of blue plaques throughout Oxfordshire, his family home was Greys Court in south Oxfordshire and he now lives in North Oxford. He enjoys hill walking and has used his hobby to raise money for charity.

The Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft studied at Worcester College, Oxford. He was a member of the Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence until 2020 and was appointed to the Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee in 2021. At the heart of Bishop Steven’s ministry is a desire to engage in the wider community. He has worked creatively with Anglicans of all traditions in a very diverse diocese, as well as with civic and community leaders and the leaders of other churches and other faiths.

Ian spent a number of years as a civil servant before becoming a management consultant at Deloitte. As a Partner, he led the European e-commerce practice. He then became CEO of a US/UK venture capital-funded tech start-up that was an early promoter of online solutions to business. Ian is an Oxford resident committed to bettering wellbeing across the county. In 2012 he was appointed the first Chair of the Board of the NHS Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, which oversees health services for over 700,000 people living in Oxfordshire. He was also deputy chair of an Oxford schools academy trust.

Anne is a senior IT professional with international experience at large multi-national corporations. She thrives on sorting out difficult situations and delivering business transformation and value through technological innovation across all areas of a business, including content and intellectual management, business analysis, supply chain management, financials, sales and distribution. After a 26-year career delivering IT systems for a series of high-profile publishing houses, she now works as an independent consultant, and is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences.

Monawar is Muslim Tutor at Eton College, Muslim Chaplain at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Founder of the Oxford Foundation, a charity that promotes religious and racial harmony. He has contributed to a number of books on spirituality, and was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 2021-22, focusing on thanking and celebrating the county’s COVID-19 heroes. Monawar serves as an advisor to a number of national charities including the World Congress of Faiths, The Oxford Trust, History of Science Museum (University of Oxford), the Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion, Prison Phoenix Trust, NHS Faith Leadership Advisory Board, and the NSPCC National Advisory Group on Safeguarding and Muslim Children. He was awarded the prestigious Sternberg Interfaith Gold Medallion for interfaith services in March 2020.

An Oxford graduate, Grant has been an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School, University of Oxford, since 2007. This followed a 29-year career with the Barclays group, serving in the UK and overseas. Grant has a particular interest in leadership development in the charitable sector, and is an active member of Oxfordshire Charity Mentors, with an increasing focus on CEO/trustee board relationships. UK charity work includes Chair and trustee of two drug rehabilitation charities and, for four years, Vice Chair of the Orwell Youth Prize. A qualified rugby referee and past Vice Chair of Berkshire RFU and Chair of the Berkshire RFU Referees Society, Grant now tries to keep fit by running 50km per week.

Neil is an advisor and marketing consultant to several innovative companies and start-ups in marketing data and research. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Oxford-based marketing measurement company Nielsen. Neil began his career with Nielsen in Client Service in the UK and subsequently held responsibilities for a number of different areas of the business, including SVP for Strategic Initiatives for Nielsen in New York, and VP Marketing for Nielsen Europe in Wavre, Belgium.

Estella is a frontline manager within the Response Recovery Campus, a service which supports people with severe and enduring mental health issues on their journey of recovery and integration back into the wider community following psychiatric admission or as a means of support to avoid admission into psychiatric hospital. She has 10 years’ experience in the voluntary sector, primarily working in mental health and housing settings, alongside a number of voluntary roles including volunteering with Tandem Befriending Service and Oxfordshire Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis. She holds a degree in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford. Estella has joined OCF through the Oxford Hub Trustee Programme, which provides training for younger prospective trustees and trustees from diverse backgrounds in an effort to broaden the experience base of charity boards within the UK.