Turner Contemporary Trustees

John Kampfner (Chair)
Author, broadcaster and commentator
"I am delighted to be joined by a remarkable team of trustees, which includes exceptional local and national figures. Each brings with them specific skills that will provide strong and professional oversight for the organisation."

John Kampfner is Adviser to Google on freedom of expression and culture. He is an author, broadcaster and commentator specialising in UK politics, international affairs, media and human rights issues.

From Sept 2008 until March 2012 he was Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, one of the world's leading free expression organisations. In late 2009 Index launched a successful campaign to change UK libel laws.

He began his career as a foreign correspondent with the Daily Telegraph, first in East Berlin where he reported on the fall of the Wall and the unification of Germany, and then in Moscow at the time of the collapse of Soviet Communism. He went on to become Chief Political Correspondent at the FT and political commentator for the BBC's Todayprogramme.

As Editor of the New Statesman from 2005-2008, he took the magazine to 30 year circulation highs. He was the British Society of Magazine Editors Current Affairs Editor of the Year in 2006.

He is the author of a number of books. His most recent book, Freedom For Sale, was launched in the UK in September 2009 and in the US in March 2010, and was published in Italian, Spanish and Russian. His previous books include the critically acclaimed and best selling Blair's Wars, an account of the former prime minister's militaristic hubris.

John has presented several documentaries for BBC television and radio. In 2002 he won the Foreign Press Association award for Film of the Year and Journalist of the Year for his two-parter on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, called 'The Ugly War'. His film 'War Spin', exposing the propaganda behind the rescue of Jessica Lynch, received considerable publicity in the US and UK.

John is a regular pundit for all channels on politics and foreign affairs.

David Brazier
Conservative Kent County Councillor, Sevenoaks North East
After a career in the City as a director of a firm of marine surveyors David became an elected Member of the Kent County Council in 1997. He has been involved in the Turner Contemporary project from the beginning and now represents Kent County Council on the Board.

Tamsin Dillon
Head, Art on the Underground
Tamsin is Head of Art on the Underground, the art programme for London Underground. Over a number of years she has commissioned and presented contemporary art exhibitions, projects and publications across a range of contexts. She has been at Art on the Underground since 2003, developing its significant reputation for the opportunities it provides for artists to make new work and for millions of Tube travellers to encounter art.

Tamsin is a London Regional Arts Council member, and also is on the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group.

Francis Fitzgibbon QC
Barrister
Francis Fitzgibbon is a criminal lawyer and Immigration Judge.

Laura Ford
Artist
Laura studied at Bath Academy of Art (1978-82) and at Chelsea School of Art (1982-83). Soft fabrics, materials and found objects usually make up Ford's work, creating figures from the imagination or fantasy. They have an uncanny feel about them as if they are somehow plunged into a world of nightmare or adult struggle.

She was included in the British Art Show 5, 2000, and represented Wales in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Solo shows include Camden Arts Centre; Arnolfini, Bristol, the Royal Scottish Academy and Turner Contemporary, touring to the Economist Plaza in 2007. Her work is represented in many public collections including the Government Art Collection and Tate.

Helen Hayes
Joint Managing Director of Urban Practitioners
Urban Practitioners is a consultancy practice specialising in planning, urban design and urban regeneration. Helen has expertise in the regeneration of coastal towns and was a Specialist Adviser to the Communities and Local Government Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry on Coastal Towns in 2006 and has written on the role of the historic environment in the regeneration of coastal towns on behalf of English Heritage. She is currently Project Director for the Sustainable Cities project which Urban Practitioners is developing in partnership with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Helen divides her time her time living in London and Margate.

Roly Keating
Director of Archive Content, BBC
Roly became Controller of BBC TWO in June 2004, overseeing a range of memorable programmes including Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, The Choir, Extras, Rain In My Heart, Dragons' Den, Coast, Tribe and Springwatch. BBC TWO was named as Broadcast Channel of the Year in 2007.

Roly moved to become Head of Programming for UKTV on its launch in 1997, and in 1999 he was made BBC Controller of Digital Channels. He then became Controller of BBC FOUR, leading the channel's launch in March 2002.

In 2009, Roly left his role at BBC TWO to take up his new appointment as the BBC's first Director of Archive Content.

Sir David Manning
Former British Ambassador to the United States
Sir David Manning GCMG CVO is one of the country's leading, and most influential diplomats of the past decade. He joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1972. He served in Warsaw, New Delhi, Paris and Moscow. From 1994-5 he was Head of Policy Planning; from 1995-8 Ambassador to Israel; and from 1998-2000 he was Deputy Under Secretary of State for Defence and Intelligence and a member of the Foreign Office Board. He was the UK Permanent Representative at NATO (Brussels) from 2000-2001 before returning to London as Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of the Defence and Overseas Secretariat (2001-2003). He was then Ambassador to the United States for four years from 2003-2007. Sir David is a Non-Executive Director of the Lloyds TSB Group, and of the BG Group.

Evelyn Stern
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Evelyn grew up there and in Bogotá, Colombia, before finishing her Abitur in Germany. With a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, she completed her Bachelor of Arts, Hons, Summa Cum Laude at New York University in Comparative Literature. She was later granted a Master of Arts from Cologne University and a Ph.D. from King's College London.

She was DAAD lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Florence. From 1984 to 1996 she was a director of the publishing house Franco Maria Ricci Editore and executive editor of its international arts magazine, FMR. Evelyn now works with David Chipperfield Architects and is a director of David Chipperfield Studio.

Clive Stevens
Managing Partner Reeves and Neylan Chartered Accountants
Clive qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1980 and in 1989 became a partner in Reeves+Neylan, the largest accountancy practice in Kent. He was promoted to Managing Partner of the firm in 1995 at the age of 39 with the responsibility for managing the firm's growth and strategic direction.

Clive is also a founding director of the Association of Profit Advisers Ltd, a company established in 1997 to develop and promote profit-enhancing consultancy systems to the accounting profession, as well as Chairman of Kreston International, a worldwide association of independent accounting and business advisory firms.

Neil Webster
Sales Director, The KM Group
Neil is SalesDirector of The KM Group, an independent, family-owned media company serving the people and local communities of Kent and Medway.

Jonathan Wilmot
Chief Global Strategist, Investment Banking, Credit Suisse
Jonathan Wilmot is Chief Global Strategist at Credit Suisse, where he advises the bank and their clients on trends in the world economy and financial markets.