Kennedy Memorial Trust
About Us
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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