Governors - CVs - Bedales Schools

BEDALES SCHOOL BOARD OF GOVERNORSCareer Summary StatementDANIEL ALEXANDER QC(Retires from Board 2014)Daniel has practised as a barrister in London for over 20 years, specialising in intellectual property law. Hiswork includes large patent disputes, trade mark cases and entertainment law with a wide range of clientsfrom large companies to individuals and NGOs. Much of his work is international and Daniel has appearedin over 20 cases before the CJEU.Daniel is a Deputy High Court Judge, sitting in the Chancery Divison and also hears tademark appeals. Hesits as an arbitrator from time to time. He is a trustee of the Natural History Museum, a trustee of theKennedy Memorial Trust and a member of the Oxford University Law advisory panel. He has taught lawon postgraduate courses as a visiting professor at UCL. He has contributed to some of the leading legaltext books and lectures in various countries.FRANCISKA BAYLISS, Froebel Cert Ed, FRSA(Retires from Board 2014)Fran was Headmistress of London primary and secondary schools for twenty-five years including sixteen ofthem as Headmistress of Ibstock Place, in south west London, with whom Bedales had close links.Fran served on national committees, governing bodies and trusts and continues to be involved in a numberof charities and trusts which benefit young people’s education.She now runs MTC an educational consultancy to assist students moving predominantly from maintainedschool backgrounds and helping them to access bursaries and scholarships in independent schools. She alsoserves as an ISI inspector in independent schools in this country and overseas.Fran is married to a European Patent Attorney and has two children. Geoff and Fran’s son is a yachtsmanand old Bedalian. Her interests include family, friends, theatre, travel, sailing and walking.SEONA MARGARET FORD BA, PGCE(Retires from Board 2013)Educated Dunhurst and Bedales (1953-1962), University of Birmingham, Homerton College, Cambridge.Studied sociology, psychology and education. Worked as teacher from 1968-1990. Became an adviser in1991 and an Ofsted inspector in 1995; now responsible for statutory assessment in schools across Essex.One daughter (Bedales 1995-97) and one son. Interests include detective fiction, 19 th century history andthe Samaritans. Seona is also Chair of the Essex Book Festival, one of the biggest festivals of its kind in thecountry.AVRIL HARDIE BEd JP(Retires from Board 2018)Teacher of English for 30 years working in Secondary and Further Education establishments in State andIndependent sectors. Final 16 years spent at Bedales, roles undertaken ranging from part-time Teacher ofEnglish to Joint Acting Deputy Head and Registrar. Currently engaged in sitting in local Adult and YouthCourts as a JP. Mother of two OBs (both working in the Arts). Married to George Hardie (Professor ofGraphic Design at The University of Brighton and a Royal Designer for Industry who helped perfect the1

Bedales bee logo). Interests include propagating plants, walking on The Downs, entertaining and readingfiction.TIMOTHY HANDS BA AKC DPhil(Retires from the Board 2018)Tim is a Londoner. He studied the violin at the Guildhall School of Music before reading English at King’sCollege London and researching 19 th Century Literature at Oxford, where he ended as a lecturer at OrielCollege, helping to admit and then teaching the first women in Oxford’s last all male college. He taught atKing’s School Canterbury, where he also ran a Boarding House, before becoming Second Master atWhitgift School and Headmaster of Portsmouth Grammar School, where he stayed for a little over tenyears. He is now Master of Magdalen College School, Oxford. He is particularly interested in UniversityAdmissions and is co-chair of the HMC/GSA Universities Committee. He becomes Chairman of HMC in2013. Tim is married to Jane, and has two children, both brought up in Hampshire. His interests includewriting (three books on Thomas Hardy, for example), sport (especially cricket and rugby) and music – hewas conductor of the Oxford University Chamber Choir, the Schola Cantorum of Oxford, for three years,and is now Vice Chair of the choir’s Board of Trustees.BRIAN JOHNSON FRS, FRSE, FRSC, F.Acad.Europa(Retires from Board 2015)Brian Johnson is internationally acknowledged as a pioneer of modern inorganic chemistry and is currentlycarrying out research and teaching at Cambridge. He has received many honours during his career. Hewas elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1992and in the same year a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of theAcademia Europa. He was awarded the Corday-Morgan Medal in 1984, The Royal Society of ChemistryPrize for Transition Metal Chemistry in 1986, Tilden Medal in 1994 and the Edward Frankland Medal andprize in 2003. He has been Visiting Professor at numerous Universities throughout the World and hasdelivered named lectures in a wide variety of institutions. In 1998 he was awarded the Grand Cross ofBrazil for his contributions to Science. Master Fitzwilliam College Cambridge 1999 - 2005 and Professor ofInorganic Chemistry University of Cambridge 1995 - 2005.Brian is amongst the top twenty-five most cited Physical Scientists in the UK and the top one hundredworldwide. Until recently, his grant income placed him in the top twenty from all areas of engineering andthe physical sciences.MICHÉLE JOHNSON BA(Retires from Board 2018)Michele Johnson began her career as a sports journalist on The Cricketer magazine and went on to edit twofitness magazines before becoming deputy editor to Imran Khan on Cricket Life International. In 1990, shebecame the first female sports sub-editor on the London Evening Standard where she worked for 12 years.She is the co-author of Real Quick: a Celebration of the West Indies Pace Quartets as well as the author of acricket coaching manual. She was featured in Nothing Sacred, an anthology of new cricket writing.Michele moved from London to Hampshire with husband Michael and family in 2003 for their children tobegin their Bedales education. Michele became involved with the Dunhurst Parents Group and became cochairof its successor, the Friends of Dunhurst. She also served on the Bedales Parents Association for fouryears. She helped to organise the Workshadowing scheme for Dunhurst pupils for six years as well as beinginvolved in several fund-raising initiatives for Dunhurst and Bedales.Interests include keeping alpacas and chickens, gardening, cricket and African drumming.2

REAR ADMIRAL JOHN LIPPIETT CB MBE(Retires from Board 2019)John Lippiett was educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School from where he joined the RoyalNavy for a 36 year career. His appointments and travel were many and various, and he commanded anumber of ships and a large shore establishment before becoming a flag officer both at sea and abroad. Hisfinal job was as Commandant of the Joint Services Staff College from where he took early retirement tobecome the Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth. Here he is very actively engaged insaving the 500 year old ship and its extraordinary collection of artefacts, and building a new museum inwhich to house it.John has lived in West Sussex through his life. Married to Jenny, they sail and walk in the vicinity ofChichester, garden, enjoy being grandparents, and are the proud parents of three OB children who are fineexamples of what the school has to offer. He is Naval Vice President of the Combined Cadet Force,Patron of the Nautical Training Corps and a Trustee of the Royal Mint Museum.TIM PARKER MA, MSc(Retires from Board 2015)Educated at Abingdon School, Pembroke College Oxford and London Business School. Currently Chairmanand Chief Executive of the Samsonite Corporation, Chairman of Nine Entertainment Group, Australia, andChairman of the Autobar Group. Tim is also and Industrial Partner of CVC Capital Partners.Completed three management buy-outs, and subsequently served as CEO of the AA, Kwik-Fit andKenwood. Spent 6 years as CEO of Clarks Shoes.Previously non-exec director of Alliance Boots plc, Compass Group plc and Legal and General Group plc.Also served for a time a member of the Board of the Audit Commission and as Chairman of the EmergingAfrica Infrastructure Fund.Recently acquired the British Pathe film archive. Married to Therese with 4 children, all of whom haveattended Bedales schools. Interests are playing the flute, collecting books and running.MARK PYPER BA, OBE(Retires from Board 2020)Fifth in a line of father to son Headmasters going back to 1854, Mark Pyper spent his whole life until 2011living and working in British boarding schools. He started his teaching in prep schools in Sussex beforemoving to Sevenoaks School, where he was a Housemaster and Deputy Head. He then was appointedHeadmaster of Gordonstoun School, a position he held for twenty one years and on retirement fromwhich he was awarded the OBE for services to education. He is a Governor of four schools and acts as aneducational adviser to several associations, charities and corporations at both school and university levels.He is particularly interested in the philosophy of the German educationalist Kurt Hahn. He is a passionatefollower of cricket and a devotee of the performing arts, with experience of directing open-airShakespearean productions.3

MATTHEW RICE BA(Retires from Board 2016)Educated Bedales 1975-1980 Chelsea School of Art and Central school of Art [Theatre Design]. Fourchildren, two educated at Bedales. 1985 Established David Linley Furniture with eponymous OB. Since 1989has worked with his wife running Emma Bridgewater, more eponymy, a pottery employing 250 peoplemainly in Stoke on Trent. 25 years of designing for these companies, books on Architecture, “VillageBuildings of Britain”, Littlebrown and co 1991, “Building Norfolk”, Frances Lincoln 2009, “ArchitecturalPrimer”, Bloomsbury 2009 and “The lost city of Stoke on Trent”, Frances Lincoln. 2011. Member ofNorwich Cathedral Fabric committee and Norfolk Churches Trust council. Lives in Oxford. Interests;Piano, food and fancy fowl.NICHOLAS VETCH ARICS(Retires from Board 2013)Formative years in Mauritius. Educated at Radley College thereafter qualified as a Chartered Surveyor bycorrespondence whilst employed by, consecutively, William H Brown and King & Co, both surveying firms(1981-86). Joined Citygrove PLC,a property developer (1986-89), leaving to form own business EdgeProperties. Edge was listed on the London Stock Exchange(LSE) in 1996 and sold in 1998. Co-founded andis now Chairman of The Big Yellow Group in 1998 which was listed on the LSE in 2000. Took an eightmonth sabbatical in 2003 and sailed across the southern Pacific with family. Married to Katy with threechildren (one at Bedales) and lives in Steep. Travelled extensively, aviator, sports and home in Cornwall.CHARLES WATSON(Retires from Board 2019)Educated at Sherborne School and a history graduate of Kings College London University, Charles Watsonhas spent almost 30 years of his career in the public public relations industry. 22 of these were with leadinginternational consultancy Financial Dynamics (FD), where as CEO he led the 2003 management buy out ofthe business, and its subsequent sale to FTI Consulting in 2006. In 2011 he stepped down as chairman ofFD and has subsequently taken on a number of chairmanship roles in business which include the KarmaCommunications Group (an integrated advertising and digital communications agency group); New Collegeof the Humanities (an independent university college founded by Professor AC Grayling) and the WorldTrade Group, a private equity financed international events organizer.Both his children attend currently or have attended recently Bedales Schools – along with two nieces, onenephew and two cousins. He was closely involved in the creation of the Bedales Schools DevelopmentTrust, of which he currently serves as its first chairman and also chairs the external relations committee ofthe board of governors. Charles' many interests include fly fishing, shooting, sailing, skiing and skimountaineeringNovember 20124