The Design Council has announced the appointment of its new Board of Trustees including influential thinkers and globally respected names from the worlds of design, business, the built environment, arts and education.
The new Chair of the Trust Board is Martin Temple, Chairman of the Engineering Employers Federation. Deputy Chair and Chair of Design Council CABE is Paul Finch, design writer, critic and Director of the World Architecture Festival .
Trustees, in alphabetical order, are:
Pam Alexander, Chief Executive of SEEDA and ex-Chair of the Peabody Trust
Rab Bennetts OBE, architect, Board member of the UK Green Building Council
Sandeep Dwesar, COO and CFO of the Barbican Centre, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the London Symphony Orchestra
Jim Eyre, Architect and former President of the Architecture Association
Wayne Hemingway MBE, designer, commentator and broadcaster
Sir Mark Jones, outgoing Director of the V&A and Master of St Cross College Oxford
Deborah Meaden, businesswoman, and panel member of ‘Dragons’ Den’
Marek Reichman, Design Director of Aston Martin
Simon Waterfall, award-winning and globally recognised digital designer
Peter Williams, businessman and ex-CEO of Selfridges
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