The Rhodes Trust is an educational charity whose principal activity is to support scholars selected from 14 specified constituencies in order to study at the University of Oxford. The Trust has from time to time made benefactions to support other educational purposes either at Oxford or in the countries in which it offers Scholarships. Currently, the Trust is not making benefactions other than the Scholarships. This website will be changed to reflect any change in policy.

Trustees

The Rt Hon Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, Chairman

Provost of Eton College. Educ: Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford (Hon. Fellow, 1991); Harvard Univ. (Kennedy Fellow). Fellow, All Souls Coll., Oxford 1971-86 and 1999-.  MP Bristol West 1979-97. Numerous ministerial positions, including Chief Sec. to HM Treasury, 1995-97. Man. Dir, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, 1998-2003; Vice–Chm. and Man. Dir, UBS 2003-08. Served since 1992, Chair since 2002.

The Lord Kerr of Kinlochard

Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell since 2005; Director: Scottish American Investment Trust, since 2002; Rio Tinto plc. since 2003. Educ: Pembroke Coll., Oxford (Hon. Fellow, 1991). HM Diplomatic Service, 1966-2002, including Ambassador and UK Perm. Rep. to the EU (1990-95) and Ambassador to the USA (1995-97); Perm. Under-Sec. of State, FCO, and Hd, Diplomatic Service, 1997-2002. Served since 1997.

Miss Rosalind Hedley-Miller

Vice Chairman, M&A Advisory, Commerzbank. Educ: St Hugh's Coll., Oxford and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard. Former member of Industrial development Advisory Board (1997-2005)and former external member of Finance Committee of Oxford University Press (1995-2009). Served since 1999.

The Rt Hon Lord Fellowes  

Chairman, Barclay's Private Banking, since 2000. Numerous positions in HM's service, 1977-99, including Private Sec. to the Queen and Keeper of the Queen's Archives, 1990-99. Served since 2000.

Mr Julian Ogilvie Thompson (Diocesan College, Rondebosch & Worcester 1953) 

Director, DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd, 1966-2006 (Chairman, 1985-97). Educ: Univ. of Cape Town; Worcester Coll., Oxford. Anglo American Corp. of SA, Ltd., 1956-2002; Chm., 1990-2002; Vice-Chairman: First Nat. Bank Ltd., 1977-90. Served since 2002.

Professor Sir John Bell (Alberta & Magdalen 1975)

Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, since 2002. Student of Christ Church, Oxford, since 2002. Educ: Univ. of Alberta; Magdalen Coll., Oxford. Fellow, Magdalen Coll., 1990-2002. Founder, Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (1993). Served since 2002.

Mr Tom Seaman

Estates and Finance Bursar and Fellow, All Souls College, since 1998. Educ: Yale Univ., Univ. of Chicago, and Univ. of Oxford. Man. Dir, Merrill Lynch (1989-98). Member, Univ. of Oxford Investments and Property Management committees. Served since 2004.

Professor Sir John Vickers

Warden, All Souls College, Oxford, since 2008 (Fellow, 1991-2008). Educ: Oriel Coll., Oxford (Hon. Fellow, 2005). Fellow, All Souls Coll., Oxford, 1979-84. Drummond Prof. of Political Economy, Univ. of Oxford, 1991-2008. Exec. Dir, Chief Economist, and Mem. Monetary Policy Comm, Bank of England, 1998-2000. Dir Gen. (2000-2003) and Chm. (2003-2005), Office of Fair Trading. Served since 2006.

Mr Michael McCaffery (Pennsylvania & Merton 1975)

CEO, Makena Capital Management. Educ: Princeton Univ., Stanford Univ., Merton Coll., Oxford. Pres. and CEO, Stanford Management Co., 2000-2006. Dir., Off Road Capital, Western Technology Ventures and the Investment Fund for Foundations. Served since 2008.

Professor Ngaire Woods (New Zealand & Balliol 1987)

Professor of International Political Economy, University of Oxford. Founder and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford. Educ: Auckland Univ., Balliol Coll., Oxford. Served since 2009.

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