Kennedy Memorial Trust

About Us

Meet our Trustees

The Kennedy Memorial Trust oversees the official British national memorial to US President John F. Kennedy. That memorial has two parts, ‘a memorial in landscape and stone’ at Runnymede in Surrey and a ‘living memorial’ in the form of Kennedy Scholarships to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Trust has a Board of up to eleven Trustees who, in accordance with the Deed, are appointed by the UK Prime Minister, the Presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or by the President of the United States. The Trust Deed dates from 4 July 1964.

Kennedy Memorial Trust

Meet our Trustees

Chair

Sir Mark Walport

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Sir Mark Walport has been the Chair of the Kennedy Memorial Trust since 2016. Mark is Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society. He chairs Imperial College Health Partners and Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre, and is a non-execu... Read more

Senior Independent Trustee

Mary Ann Sieghart

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Mary Ann is a journalist, broadcaster, consultant and author of the bestselling book The Authority Gap: Why We Still Take Women Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It. She was at The Times for nearly 20 years, as Assistant Editor, Comment Editor,... Read more

Trustee, Kennedy Scholar

Dr Tariq Baloch

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Tariq is a barrister at Essex Court Chambers. Tariq’s practice encompasses international arbitration (international investment treaty claims and international commercial arbitration), public international law and commercial litigation. He is highly sought af... Read more

Trustee, Kennedy Scholar

Professor Kirstie Blair

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Kirstie is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of Stirling. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge, and MPhil and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford and additionally studied at Harvard University as a K... Read more

Trustee, Kennedy Scholar

Matt Clifford CBE

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Matt is cofounder of Entrepreneur First (EF), the leading global talent investor and incubator. EF invests in top technical talent to help them build startups from scratch in London, Paris, Bangalore, New York and San Francisco. EF has incubated startups worth... Read more

Trustee, Kennedy Scholar

Tilly Franklin

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Tilly is CEO and Chief Investment Officer at University of Cambridge Investment Management Limited, the fund manager of the Cambridge University Endowment Fund.  She joined the University in January 2020 from her previous role as Director of Investments and ... Read more

Trustee, Kennedy Scholar

Gareth H. McKinley FRS

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Gareth is Professor of Teaching Innovation in the School of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He attended the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts followed by a Master of Engineering as a student of Downing Coll... Read more

Trustee, Kennedy Scholar

Professor Rana Mitter OBE FBA

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Rana is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a B... Read more

Trustee, Kennedy Scholar

Rupert Morley

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Rupert is a non-executive director of Pershing Square Holdings, a FTSE 100 company and Chair of Bremont Watches. He is a trustee of Comic Relief and Chair of its investment advisory group. He previously served as CEO of Sterling Relocation, Hamptons estate age... Read more

Trustee, Kennedy Scholar

Moira Wallace

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Moira is a former Permanent Secretary who began her career in the Treasury and No 10, then moved to delivery roles in the Home Office, and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. In 1997 she became Director of the Social Exclusion Unit which she led for f... Read more

Make a Difference

Support the next generation of scholars

You can support the next generation of Kennedy Scholars, enabling the leaders and change makers of tomorrow to learn, grow and evolve through study at Harvard and MIT.

If you have any questions about making a gift to the Trust or would like to discuss ways to support today’s scholars and future generations through mentoring, we would be delighted to talk to you – please contact us at info@kennedytrust.org.uk.

You can also make a donation through the link below. If you intend to donate so that we can support scholars for another 60 years, continuing to champion the values of intellectual endeavour, leadership, and public service, thank you.

The Kennedy Memorial Trust is a registered UK charity (no. 234715) and a 501(c)3 nonprofit in the United States.

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