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Motto
'Pas trop de zele' (le Duc de Talleyrand)
Professional background
1991-2001
Freelance executive speechwriter and director of family recruitment agency
1969-1991
IBM UK Limited: management positions in corporate affairs, press relations and management communications. Assignments to corporate and European headquarters.
1962-1969
British Council (international cultural relations): served in West Pakistan, as it then was, and London headquarters
Academic background
Cambridge MA (Modern and Medieval Languages) and Harvard (MA in Teaching), Frank Knox and Fullbright Fellow
Professional associations
Member of the Institute of Directors; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Voluntary roles (recent)
School Governor Chichester High School for Girls (1997- ), Chairman of Governors (2002-2005)
Treasurer, St Giles Church, Merston 2008-2010
Interests
Member of European Movement, Chairman of Sussex Branch 2000-2002, member of National Council 2007- 2009
Leisure painter in oils, pastels and water colours
Member of amateur string orchestra (violin)
Family
Married to Innes Mary with four grown up children and seven grandchildren
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