Board of Trustees
André Hoffmann (Chair) is the non-executive Vice Chairman of Roche Holdings Ltd, Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum, President of the MAVA Foundation and Vice President of WWF International.
Alexandra Henderson is the former CEO of the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust and ran the programme with care and commitment from its inception. She was a Producer in BBC News & Current Affairs and continues to produce television programmes.
Dr Alina Barnett is an economist, formerly an Economic Adviser at the Bank of England. Alina is the granddaughter-in-law of George Weidenfeld.
Professor Francisca Mutapi is a Professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity, co-director of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh, and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa. She is the first black woman known to have been awarded a professorship by the University of Edinburgh. She gained a DPhil in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford, as a Beit Trust Scholar. She is an alumnus of Linacre College, Oxford.
Mr George Robinson is a partner of Sloane Robinson LLP an investment management business specialising in global equities which he co-founded in 1993. He founded the Sloane Robinson Foundation, together with Hugh Sloane, in order to provide scholarships for overseas students to study in Britain and for British students to study abroad. He is an active investor in early-stage technology and biotech companies and co-founded OTIF Ventures which invests in spin-out companies from the Oxford University. He studied Engineering Science at Keble College.
Mr James E. Lieber is the founder and president of Lieber Strategies with more than 25 years of experience in the strategic management of complex international projects and situations for multi-national corporations, investment funds, organisations and high net-worth individuals in Europe and the United States. Prior to founding Lieber Strategies, James was Director of Corporate Affairs at LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton S.E. James holds a juris doctor degree cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with honours in art history. James is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Advisory Board
The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust is grateful to our Advisory Board members for their practical support, expertise and ongoing commitment to the work of the Trust.
- Mr Ben Barnett
- Mr Enrique Cadenas
- Ms Nina Coad
- Dr Precious Lunga
- Dr Rasha Saïd
- Lady Elizabeth Roberts
- Mr Giles Strachan
- Mr Atherton Mutombwera (Alumni Representative)