Our trustees

The President of The Prince’s Teaching Institute is HRH The Prince of Wales .

Our Trustees

Harvey McGrath (Chairman)

Harvey is Chairman of Prudential plc, Chairman of the London Development Agency, Vice Chair of the Mayor of London’s Skills and Employment Board and Chairman of Governors of Birkbeck College, University of London.  He is the former Chairman of Man Group plc, the London based FTSE 100 fund manager. Harvey retired from the Man Board in November 2007, having been appointed Chairman in March 2000 and previously Chief Executive in 1990. He joined Man in 1980 from Chase Manhattan Bank. Harvey has an MA in Geography from St Catherine’s College, Cambridge.

Prior to taking on the Chair of the London Development Agency he was Chairman of London First, the capital’s influential business campaign group, a director of Gateway to London, the inward investment agency for the Thames Gateway and Chairman of the East London Business Alliance, a partnership of substantial businesses engaged in the social and economic regeneration of East London.

Harvey is a also a trustee of a number of charities including New Philanthropy Capital, a research based charity which gives advice and guidance to donors and charities; the Royal Anniversary Trust which operates the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education; CFAB, which protects the rights and welfare of children and vulnerable adults across borders; icould, an online careers resource; and The Prince’s Teaching Institute, which promotes subject based professional development for teachers. He is also an active supporter of the integrated education movement in Northern Ireland.

Alan Kelsey

Alan Kelsey has been Chairman of Nord Anglia Education Ltd since January 2005.  He has over thirty years’ experience in the City and industry, latterly in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and WestLB Panmure. He has been an investment analyst, corporate broker and investment banker and held a number of senior management posts. He was Group Corporate Development Director at National Express Group PLC, where he was one of the executive directors and was a non-executive director at PD Ports PLC where he was the senior independent director. 

Dr Kate Pretty CBE

Dr Kate Pretty is Principal of Homerton College and a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. She is a distinguished archaeologist by profession, and has worked at Cambridge for over 30 years. In November 2009, she was awarded a CBE for her services to higher education. She is currently President of the Council of British Archaeology and serves on a number of other Trusts.

She became Principal of Homerton College in 1991. Homerton College is one of the largest University colleges. It traces its roots back to late 17th century London but has been in Cambridge since 1894, specialising in the training and education of teachers. From 2001, the College has changed, taking students for almost all subjects studied at Cambridge and developing as a centre for education and research. It received its Royal Charter early in 2010.

As Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Dr Pretty's primary responsibility was the development of the University's international strategy, bringing together a great diversity of international scholarship and activity so that there could be a coherent response to both global competition and to new opportunities for collaboration and capacity building overseas.

Peter Wallace

Peter has been a partner with Ernst & Young since 2000 and has worked for long spells in Hong Kong; Singapore; London and Edinburgh. He focuses on the financial services industry serving a wide variety of banking and niche financial service players - some as audit clients and others advisory. He currently leads Ernst & Young's UK assurance practice for Banking and Capital Markets and is also their partner responsible for Financial Services in Scotland. Previously Peter was involved in the Corporate Governance arena having written a book on the topic in 2003. His interest in teaching began with his father who left industry to teach science in his early forties. Peter firmly believes that allowing all children the best possible start in their educational lives is both good for them and also good for the country as a whole and that is why he is so focused on the Institute's belief that all pupils, irrespective of background or ability, are entitled to a subject-based curriculum, taught by inspirational and knowledgeable teachers.