The Trustees

Michael Cronk is a retired commodity broker. He joined E.D.& F.Man (now Man Group plc) in 1971, spending the greater part of his career working in the group's commodity division and serving as director of the group's sugar company. He was an active arbitrator in the international sugar industry for many years, and served a three year term as chairman of The Refined Sugar Association.

Mr Cronk now takes an active interest in various charitable causes, and has served as a trustee on a number of charitable organisations. He is Marjorie Deane's godson, and was a founding trustee of her foundation in 1998.

Martin Giles is US technology correspondent at The Economist. After studying Politics, Philosophy & Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University he joined The Economist as a writer on Marjorie Deane's The Economist Financial Report in 1988. He later held several other editorial posts, including European business correspondent and editor of the Finance and Economics section. He then spent ten years on the commercial side of The Economist Group, including four as head of the group's US operations. In 2008 he returned to journalism, covering finance and management from New York. In June 2009 he took up his current role in Silicon Valley.

Mr Giles has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is also a member of the advisory council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

John Micklethwait is Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. After studying history at Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a banker at Chase Manhattan before joining The Economist as a finance correspondent in 1987. Since then, his roles at The Economist have included setting up the bureau in Los Angeles; being the newspaper's media correspondent; editing the business section; running the New York bureau; and editing the United States section.

Mr Micklethwait has co-authored five books with Adrian Wooldridge, a fellow Economist journalist: "The Witch Doctors"; "A Future Perfect: the Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation"; "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea"; "The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America"; and "God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World"

Guy Monson is chief investment officer and managing partner at Sarasin & Partners. He joined the Sarasin Group in 1984 and became chief investment officer in 1997 and managing partner of Sarasin & Partners LLP London in 2008. He was the first English Partner at Bank Sarasin, one of Switzerland’s oldest private banks.

Mr Monson has been manager (and now co-manager) of Sarasin’s GlobalSar family of balanced investment funds since 1988 and holds one of the longest continuous investment records in the industry. He manages a range of institutional global thematic equity and global balanced mandates in various regulatory jurisdictions.

Mr Monson was educated at Eton College and Oxford University, where he graduated in Economics. He is a prolific writer on investment issues, penning the lead article in the Sarasin House Report every quarter for the last 20 years. He is also involved in many endowment and philanthropic activities, including founding trustee of the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry, chairman of the Lady Margaret Hall Oxford Advisory Council and chairman of the City Salute Appeal for the Armed forces.

Rupert Pennant-Rea was a journalist at The Economist from 1977 to 1993, the last seven years as Editor-in-Chief. He rejoined the board of the Economist Group in 2007 and became Chairman in 2009. He was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 1995, and has been involved in business since then. He is Chairman of Henderson Group plc and a director of a number of public and private companies. He has written several books on economics and one (bad) novel.

Penny Chapman is a partner in Bircham Dyson Bell LLP and head of the firm's charity law practice. After studying history at Somerville College, Oxford, she became a solicitor practicing in the field of tax and trusts and ultimately specialising in charities. Miss Chapman regularly advises boards of charity trustees on all aspects of constitutional law and good governance.

As well as advising numerous charity clients Miss Chapman is also a trustee of a number of grant-making charities and of the College of Radiographers and World Book Night.