Chair: Professor Anna Philpott (SE 1985, Natural Sciences): Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Resources and Operations, Cambridge
Anna graduated with a BA degree in 1988 and a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology in 1991. She held post-doctoral fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre in 1992, moving to the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School in 1993.
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Professor Claire Warwick (SE 1986, Classics, English): Professor of Digital Humanities, Durham
Claire researches the use of digital resources and techniques, including AI, in the humanities and in cultural heritage; on digital reading; and cyberspace history. Her book Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, A World Elsewhere was published in 2024.

She read Classics and English at Selwyn followed by an MPhil and PhD on Renaissance English literature. She then worked briefly in electronic publishing, before going on to a postdoctoral position at Oxford, jointly hosted by the Faculty of English and the University Computing Services.
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Dr Angela McNelly (SE 1976, Natural Sciences): Former Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
Angela followed her Selwyn degree with a PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, now Cancer Research UK, investigating sequencing effects of chemotherapy/radiotherapy in vitro. Angela is currently contributing to a scholarship with the Cavendish Laboratory to fund a Selwyn PhD student. 
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Professor Juliet John (SE 1985, English): Vice President (Education) at City St George's
Juliet is a Victorianist specialising in Charles Dickens, with interests in popular culture and the cultural and creative industries. Before her current role, she was Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at City St George's and Head of the School of Humanities at Royal Holloway.
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Katherine Mathieson (SE 1993, Natural Sciences): Director of the Royal Institution
Katherine has been Director of the Royal Institution (Ri) since 2022. The Ri is an independent charity best known for its annual Christmas Lectures and it runs science events all year round. Before that, she led the British Science Association.
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Chair: Professor Janet O’Sullivan, Fellow
Janet is Professor of Private Law at the University of Cambridge. She has been a Fellow in Law at Selwyn since 1994 and has just completed ten years as Vice-Master. Born in Essex, she was the first in her immediate family to go to university, reading Law at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where she graduated with the highest first in her year. She joined Slaughter and May in 1989 but missed academic law and returned to Cambridge as a Fellow at Selwyn, later taking up a lectureship in the Faculty of Law.
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Kelly Bond (SE 2002, Law): District Judge
Kelly was called to the Bar in 2007 and joined Enterprise Chambers the following year, where she had a specialist commercial chancery practice. Kelly became a Deputy District Judge in 2019 and a District Judge in 2021. She sits in Leeds and is a specialist District Judge of the Business and Property Division dealing principally with insolvency and companies, property, trusts and probate, and business disputes.

Aoife Monaghan (SE 2009, Law): Counsel in the Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group at Linklaters LLP
Aoife specialises in competition law in the tech and fintech sectors, covering global merger control, abuse of dominance and market investigations. She was promoted to Counsel in 2025, while on her second maternity leave.
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Fiona Campbell-Hynes (SE 2006, Classics): Global Head of Privacy at Informa PLC
Fiona leads the legal and operational privacy teams at Informa, a FTSE 100 events, technology and data company, across more than 30 jurisdictions. After Selwyn she took the law conversion course at BPP in London, then trained and qualified as a solicitor at Linklaters.
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Amy Perkins (SE 2005, Law): Barrister, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
After leaving Selwyn, Amy took the Bar Vocational Course before a pupillage at 1 Hare Court. She began a family law practice, specialising in matrimonial finance. After a few years, she left for a two-year role at the Law Commission and, on returning to 1 Hare Court, decided to join the Government Legal Department. A year at the Department for Work and Pensions followed before she was appointed at the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, drafting legislation.
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Chair: Professor Lynn Dicks, Fellow
Lynn is Professor of Ecology at the University of Cambridge and an expert in sustainable farming and insect conservation. She is a Board Member of Natural England, chairs the Natural England Science Advisory Committee and co-directs the Conservation Evidence project in the Conservation Research Institute.

After a first in Biological Sciences at Oxford and a Cambridge PhD on flower-visiting insects, she worked as a science writer before returning to research. She was a coordinating lead author of the 2016 international assessment of pollinators, and in 2017 she received the John Spedan Lewis Medal for her contribution to insect conservation.

Julia Fordham (SE 1984, Classics): Experienced corporate treasurer and finance professional
Julia joined the Barclays graduate scheme after Selwyn, eventually covering US investment banks until her client Morgan Stanley persuaded her to join them, starting a career in treasury.
The treasurer's role is to manage an organisation's financial risks and resources. Julia's specialism is debt funding: issuing publicly traded bonds and arranging bank borrowing, whether in good or (often) extremely bad markets.
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Kerry Shepherd (SE 1991, MML): Founder, Minerva. Worked as a translator before working for a leading executive search company before setting up her own.
After a year teaching in Germany, Kerry went on to complete an MA in Interpreting and Translating at the University of Bath in 1997. She spent the first five years of her career as a Translator, first for a small agency in Bonn and then at Cartier International in Paris.
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Anna McAndrew (SE 1988, Economics): Managing Director and Global Chief Operating Officer of HSBC Markets and Securities Services Operations
Anna McAndrew leads the function responsible for turning strategy into action, improving how the organisation works and supporting colleagues around the world. Her remit spans business planning, finance, people, sustainability, digital innovation, data and governance. Over a 35-year career, Anna has held senior leadership roles at major international banks, specialising in operations, risk and large-scale transformation, including an assignment in India. Throughout her career, she has supported gender diversity initiatives and women in banking to develop their careers and fulfil their potential.

Akta Raja (SE 1996, Law): Investor and adviser in health and climate businesses
Akta founded Enhabit, a low-carbon buildings company, which she exited in 2020. She is now a venture partner at Factor(e) Ventures and an adviser to SCVC and Clearbrook Capital Partners, focusing on businesses in health and climate.
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Chair: Suzanne Raine MBE, Selwyn's Master
Suzanne Raine (PE 1988, History) was installed as Master of Selwyn College in October 2025. She worked for 25 years in the Foreign Office, including postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She specialised in counter-terrorism, including leading the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre from 2015-17 and as Director of Counter Terrorism 2017-2019. She is an Independent Non-Executive at EY and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal United Services Institute.

Dr Hannah White OBE (SE 1997, Geography): CEO, Institute for Government
Hannah is CEO of one of the UK’s most high-profile think tanks, the Institute for Government (IfG). The non-partisan IfG works with politicians and public servants to help make government work well for the people of the UK.

Sophie Bracken MBE (SE 2011, Economics): Debt strategy lead, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sophie is a policy adviser and economist in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, where she works on international debt and development finance. Sophie worked at the World Health Organization before joining the UK Government in 2017. Since then, she has worked on a wide range of international policy issues from vaccine financing and the global response to COVID-19 to international economic policy, development finance, and long-term strategic planning. She was awarded an MBE in 2020 for services to International Development. Sophie studied Economics at Selwyn and holds an MSc in Economic Policy from University College London.

Mary Clegg (SE 1994, History): Former CEO of the Green Party
Mary joined the NHS management training scheme straight from Cambridge. She spent two decades in the health service, latterly as Managing Director of NHS Hounslow, where she drove the integration of services across health and the local council.
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Ruth Merrifield (SE 1990, Social and Political Sciences): Policy officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ruth has served in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for over 25 years. She has been posted to Washington DC and has worked in a number of policy departments, including on Africa and cyber policy. She has recently worked for the Chief Scientific Adviser and is now in the National Security Directorate.

Chair: Jennifer Phillips, Selwyn's Bursar
As an undergraduate (CAI 1996, History & Philosophy), Jennifer Phillips coxed the Cambridge women's Blue Boat that beat Oxford by a length in April 1999. Our Bursar since 2022, she oversees finance, estates, hospitality and domestic services. She read English and History and Philosophy of Science at Gonville & Caius, then spent 17 years in finance, training at PricewaterhouseCoopers and later working for an international education business. She returned to Caius in 2016 as Domestic Bursar, where, among many things, she supported students through Covid and refurbished the kitchens.

Chloë Allison (SE 2012, Music): Captain of the Marylebone Cricket Club Women's Team
Chloë captained the university cricket club during her undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Though a musician professionally, she continues to play cricket at a high level and sits on the Women’s Players Committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The MCC has recently been in the news because it had to shelve its proposals to fast track female members.
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Sophie Sellars (SE 2008, History): Director at Deloitte, competes in Ironman and GB Age Group Team Triathlete
Sophie loved her time at college, spending countless happy hours rowing on the Cam and she made friends that she still counts among her closest today. Sophie is now an FCA and a Director in Deloitte's M&A practice, advising clients on complex transactions.
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Sophie Penney (SE 2013, MML): Senior Podcast Producer, Global
Sophie is an award-winning producer for Global, the UK and Europe’s largest radio and outdoor media company. Sophie currently produces the Formula One show Up To Speed, travelling from Silverstone to Monaco to work with the top names in F1, like Max Verstappen. Her career has taken her from the FIFA World Cup Final in Russia with ITV Sport to reporting on the Paris Olympics with Reuters.
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Chair: Dr Jessica Gardner, Fellow
Jess has been the Cambridge University Librarian since 2017, having previously been Director of Libraries at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter. She represents Cambridge on the Libraries Alliance, a partnership working to strengthen collaboration across the library sector for the benefit of all their communities. She is a trustee of the Friends of the Nations’ Libraries and of the Sir Winston Churchill Archives Trust at Churchill College, and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Leeds.

Uzma Hameed (SE 1986, MML): Writer, director and dramaturg
Uzma is a regular collaborator of choreographer Wayne McGregor. She was Dramaturg on Woolf Works, which won an Olivier Award, and The Dante Project for the Royal Ballet. She has worked on productions for the National Ballet of Canada and La Scala. Her other credits include Northern Ballet’s Victoria and The Seven Deadly Sins/Mahagonny Songspiel for the Royal Opera.
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Emma Gait (SE 2010, Music): Head of Artistic Planning, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Emma Gait is an accomplished classical music programmer and arts administrator. She is responsible for shaping the creative vision and programming for the UK’s leading broadcast orchestra and plays a key role in planning the BBC Proms.
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Erin-Atlanta Argun (SE 2018, History of Art): Senior Digital Editor, ArtReview
Erin-Atlanta Argun is Senior Digital Editor at ArtReview, where she leads the publication’s digital editorial strategy. Previously, she was Head of Editorial & Content at MyArtBroker, where she led the platform’s editorial strategy and developed Excuse Me, a social-first interview series asking members of the public and cultural figures one simple, but loaded, question: if you could own any work of art in the world, what would it be and why?
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