Board of Trustees
We are governed by a Board of Trustees
composed of 14 members, half of whom are lay members and half
medical.
All Trustees are also members of The
Council - an advisory body comprising of up to 30 members.
Our Trustees
Philip Yea MA FCMA
Chairman of The Board of Trustees and Member of
Council
Philip Yea's business career has spanned both public and private
companies. Philip has spent over ten years in private equity, most
recently at 3i Group plc where he was Chief Executive from 2004
until January 2009, and previously at Investcorp, where his main
focus was on the performance of portfolio investments.
He is the former Finance Director of Diageo, the global drinks
group, where he played a key role in the creation of Diageo through
Guinness's merger with GrandMet in 1997.
Philip is a non-Executive Director of Vodafone Group Plc. He has
previously been a director of Moet Hennessy, HBOS plc and
Manchester United PLC. Philip is a member of the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants and has a degree in Modern
Languages from Oxford University.
Philip advises a number of firms and individuals, acting as
Chairman to The Rose Partnership, an advisor to PwC in the UK and
is also a trustee of the Francis Crick Institute.
Philip has been a Trustee since September 2008 and became
Chairman of the Board of Trustees in March 2009. He is also
Chairman of the Nominations and Remunerations Committees.
Andrew Balfour
Trustee and Council Member
Andrew Balfour is a retired solicitor who now spends his time
working for a number of charities and educational institutions.
He retired from the international law firm Slaughter and May in
2011 after a career of over thirty years working for the firm.
During that career he worked on a range of commercial transactions,
but was primarily a financing lawyer advising on major borrowing
transactions for many leading corporate and bank clients in the UK
and elsewhere. Andrew became a partner of Slaughter and May in
1988, worked in the firm’s New York office for a couple of years in
the early 1990s and became head of the financing practice and a
member of the partnership board in 2004.
In addition to his role for the BHF, Andrew is a trustee of
Sustrans (the sustainable transport charity which is developing the
National Cycle Network) and of Farleigh Hospice in Essex and is
also a school governor.
In his spare time Andrew and his wife, Anne, enjoy being outside
in the fresh air in Essex, where they live. They have supported the
BHF for many years, following in the footsteps of Anne’s mother who
was a leading fundraiser for the BHF in Winchester in the 1970s and
1980s. Andrew also enjoys watching sport, going to the theatre and
cinema, gardening and walking and cycling in the countryside.
Andrew joined the BHF Council in 2011 and the Board of Trustees
in 2012.
Professor Nishi Chaturvedi
Trustee and Council Member
Nishi Chaturvedi qualified in medicine in London, specialising
first in Internal Medicine and then in Public Health. She began her
research career at University College London in 1988 and moved
on to become a Chair in clinical epidemiology at Imperial
College London in 2000. Her research interests include
understanding risks and complications of diabetes, and determining
reasons for inter-ethnic differences in cardiometabolic
disease.
She also performs clinical trials testing interventions to
reduce the burden of disease in these groups both in the UK and the
developing world. Nishi is a Co-Director of the UK Diabetes
Research Network and a member of the UK Biobank Outcomes Working
Group. She is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal
of Epidemiology and chairs the Wellcome Trust interview panel for
Investigator Awards.
Professor Chaturvedi joined the Board of Trustees and BHF
Council in 2012.
Professor Sir Christopher Edwards FRSE MD FRCP FRCPE
FMedSci
Trustee and Council Member
Professor Sir Christopher Edwards is the Chairman of the
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, a Senior Research
Investigator, Experimental Physiology, Division of Medicine,
Imperial College London, and Chairman of Medical Education
England.
Prior to joining Chelsea and Westminster, Professor Edwards was
the first Principal of Imperial College School of Medicine from
1995 to 2000 before becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne where he led a major restructuring to make it
one of the top universities in the UK.
During a distinguished medical and academic career, Professor
Edwards has held numerous senior positions including President of
the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland and
Chairman of the Council of Heads of Medical Schools.
Sir Christopher became a Trustee in May 2009. He is also
Chairman of the BHF Council, and a member of the Nominations and
Remuneration Committees.
Dr E Jane Flint BSc MD FRCP
Trustee and Council Member
Dr Jane Flint qualified from Birmingham University in 1975. She
has been the lead Consultant Cardiologist for the Dudley Group of
Hospitals NHS Trust between 1988 and 2011, and was first Clinical
Director of The Black Country Cardiovascular Network between
2003-2008. Her educational interests in Trust from Postgraduate
Tutor days (1998-2004) still continue as Hon. Senior Lecturer and
Senior Academy Tutor for University of Birmingham medical
students.
Her championship of cardiac services began as the Treasurer and
Chair of the British Nuclear Cardiology Group and from there she
has sat on many different and varied committees.
She was elected as President of the British Association for
Cardiac Rehabilitation from 1997-1999 having already been a
founding member of the steering group (1992), a member of Council
(1993) and President Elect (1995). She was thereby a member of the
External Reference Group for the National Service Framework for CHD
(2000). She became National Clinical Adviser for Cardiac
Rehabilitation to NHS Improvement 2008-2012.
She was elected as the first District General Hospitals’
representative Council Member of the British Cardiac Society
(2000-2004) and subsequently as the first British Cardiovascular
Society (BCS) Council Representative for Women in Cardiology
(2005-2009). She is the Founding Trustee and Clinical Lead of Heart
Care Partnership UK (HCP UK), the affiliated cardiac patient voice
to the BCS. Jane also chairs the BCS Joint Working Group making Key
Recommendations for Women's Heart Health, these being our UK
contribution to the European Heart Health Charter in 2007, and has
since worked with the Euroheart Project and BHF Campaigns,
spreading education to patients, public, women's organisations as
well as health professionals.
Dr Flint joined the Board of Trustees in July 2006 and is also a
member of the Prevention & Care Committee.
Dr Evan Harris
Trustee and Council Member
Evan Harris studied physiological sciences at Wadham College,
Oxford and qualified in medicine in 1991. After training in general
medicine with the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the Oxford
Radcliffe Hospital, he worked in public health medicine.
He was MP for Oxford West and Abingdon from 1997 until 2010, a
member of the Science and Technology Select Committee and Liberal
Democrat Science spokesman from 2003.
He is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen
Mary, University of London, and writes on science and medicine for
the Guardian and the British Medical Journal.
Richard Hytner
Trustee and Council Member
Richard, a law graduate from St John’s College, Cambridge
University, is Saatchi & Saatchi’s Worldwide Deputy Chairman.
He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 2003 as Chairman and CEO
for Europe, Middle East and Africa, having graduated with
distinction as a Sloan Fellow from London Business School where he
is now Adjunct Associate Professor of Marketing, teaching MBA and
Executive Education participants on topics that include Leading
strategic transformation; Lovemarks beyond brands; communications;
and creativity.
Richard is chairman of Planting Promise, a sustainable
educational enterprise in Sierra Leone; a trustee of the Business
Bridge Initiative that provides business education to aspiring
entrepreneurs around the world otherwise unable to afford it; and
chairman of our Mending Broken Hearts Appeal.
He joined the BHF’s Board of Trustees in July 2011.
Professor Sir Robert Lechler
Trustee and Council Member
Robert Lechler qualified in Medicine in Manchester in 1975.
Thereafter, he undertook four years of junior hospital doctor
training in general medicine and nephrology before embarking on a
PhD in transplantation immunology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical
School.
Following the PhD, he returned to full-time clinical work for
two years and completed his scientific training at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. He returned to the UK to a
Senior Lecturer Post at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in
1986 and became Head of the Department of Immunology in 1994.
He became Dean of Hammersmith Campus at Imperial College Faculty
of Medicine in 2001 and Head of the Division of Medicine in 2003.
He moved to King’s College London as Head of the School of Medicine
at Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals in September 2004
and was appointed Vice Principal (Health) at King’s
College in October 2005. In June 2009 he was appointed as
Executive Director of King’s Health Partners Academic Health
Sciences Centre.
Professor Lechler joined the Board of Trustees and the BHF
Council in July 2010.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM,
FMedSci
Trustee and Council Member
Michael Marmot has been at the forefront of research into health
inequalities for the past 30 years. He is currently Director
of the International Institute for Society and Health, and MRC
Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University
College London.
He is Principal Investigator of the Whitehall Studies of British
civil servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse
social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He leads the English
Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and is engaged in several
international research efforts on the social determinants of
health.
He chairs the Department of Health Scientific Reference Group on
tackling health inequalities and the National Institute for
Clinical Excellence (NICE) Research and Development
Committee. He also chairs the British Heart Foundation Primary
Prevention Committee and has been a member of the BHF Council since
2000.
He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental
Pollution for six years.
In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to
Epidemiology and understanding health inequalities.
Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a Vice President
of the Academia Europaea, a member of the RAND Health Advisory
Board, a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine and
the Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up
by the World Health Organisation in 2005. He won the Balzan Prize
for Epidemiology in 2004 and gave the Harveian Oration in 2006.
Professor Marmot was first elected to join the Council and
Board of Trustees in 2000.
Roger Pilgrim MA FCA
Trustee and Council Member
After graduating in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge,
Roger joined Peat Marwick (later KPMG) where he qualified as a
chartered accountant.
After qualifying, he spent two years in the US, where he was
involved in audits and due diligence work mergers and acquisitions.
On his return to the UK, he spent three years with KPMG before
joining the private equity team of Charterhouse (now Charterhouse
Capital Partners LLP) in 1987. Roger retired from the City in 2011
and now spends his working time on trusteeships and similar
activities.
Roger is a keen real tennis player and amateur musician. In
addition to his work for the BHF, he is a member of the Alumni
Advisory Board of Trinity College, a Council Member and Chairman of
the Tennis Committee of the Tennis and Rackets Association and a
member of the Finance Committee of Marylebone Cricket Club. He is
also a trustee of several smaller charities.
Roger is a member of the Audit and Investment Committees and
became a member of Council in May 2007. He became a Trustee in
2008.
John Salmon FCA
Trustee and Council
Member
John Salmon was a senior partner in the UK firm of
PricewaterhouseCoopers before his retirement. He is a chartered
accountant and was admitted to the partnership of Price Waterhouse
in 1976. As well as his client responsibilities, he led the firm's
services to non-executive directors of major listed companies and
was Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the
partnership.
He is a non-executive director of St Modwen Properties plc, and
is also the chairman of the governors of an independent girls’
preparatory school.
John became a Trustee in 2004, and is also a member of the
Foundation’s Nominations and Remuneration Committees and Chairman
of the Audit Committee.
Professor Kay-Tee Khaw CBE FRCP
Trustee and Council Member
Professor Kay-Tee Khaw is Professor of Clinical Gerontology in
the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville & Caius
College, Cambridge.
Born in Singapore, Professor Khaw studied medicine at the
University of Cambridge and at St Mary's Hospital, University of
London. She trained in epidemiology at the London School of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and has held clinical and academic
posts at the University of London and at the University of
California, San Diego.
The focus of Professor Khaw's research interests is the
maintenance of health in later life and the causes and prevention
of chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer and
osteoporosis.
Professor Khaw is a principal investigator in EPIC-Norfolk, part
of EPIC, a prospective population study on diet, cancer and chronic
disease initiated in 1992. Over 400,000 participants from ten
collaborating European countries are involved in the study that
aims to find out more about the long-term health of people
living in the community.
Professor Khaw was awarded the CBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday
Honours List.
She became a member of both Council and the Board of Trustees in
July 2006.
Professor Paul M Stewart
Trustee and Council Member
Paul Stewart was born and educated in Harrogate and graduated
from Edinburgh Medical School in 1982, attained MRCP in 1985 and
completed his higher professional training with accreditation in
Endocrinology/Diabetes Mellitus and General Internal Medicine in
1991. In 1989 he was awarded an MD from Edinburgh University with
Honours and a Gold Medal. From 1992-2002 he held a MRC Senior
Clinical Fellowship in Birmingham and since then has held an
honorary Consultant contract with the University Hospitals
Birmingham Foundation NHS Trust. In 1995 he was awarded a personal
Chair in Medicine and Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians
of London and in 1999 was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of
Medical Sciences. He is currently Dean of Medicine and Director of
Birmingham Health Partners at the University of Birmingham.
Paul supervises an active Endocrinology research group funded
currently by programme grant support from The Wellcome Trust (but
also MRC, ERC, NIH and industry) that focuses on corticosteroids,
specifically cortisol metabolism via 11beta-hydroxysteroid
dehydrogenases. His work has lead to new discoveries in
hypertension, obesity, ageing and polycystic ovary syndrome and is
truly translational as selective 11beta-HSD1 inhibitors are in
phase II development for patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
He has a major commitment to Clinical Medicine both within the
NHS Trust and at National and International level. Clinical
expertise includes the management of Pituitary and Adrenal
disorders, Endocrine hypertension and Reproductive Medicine.
Nationally, he serves or has served on Society for Endocrinology
committees, Wellcome Trust Molecular and Physiological Sciences
Strategy and Capital Investment committees, and is currently Chair
of the MRC Training and Careers Group. Internationally, he has
played a leadership role in the US Endocrine Society and is
Secretary Treasurer for the International Society of
Endocrinology.
He has over 250 original peer reviewed publications with over
13,000. He has delivered over 130 plenary/symposium lectures to
specialist societies including the RCP Linacre, Goulstonian and
Simms lectures, the RCP Graham Bull prize, the Society for
Endocrinology Medal Lecture, the Clinical Endocrinology Trust Medal
Lecture, Sir George Pickering Medal, and the Clinical Investigator
Award Plenary Lecture at The Endocrine Society
Professor Stewart joined the Board of Trustees
in September 2010.
Lance Trevellyan BSc(Hons) ACA FRSA
Trustee and Council Member
Lance Trevellyan is founder and Chairman of the Trevellyan
Group, a trading and investment group specialising in petrol
retailing, fine art publishing, property investment and development
and wood fuel production and marketing. He is a member of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales, a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce and Chairman of
Tilford Parish Council.
Lance joined the Board of Trustees in 2009 and is also a member
of the Retail Committee.