Liz Forgan DBE
Chair of the Scott Trust
Chair of the Scott Trust since 2003. She was formerly an independent director of Guardian Media Group plc, director of programmes at Channel 4 TV, managing director of BBC Network Radio, a Guardian journalist and a member of the Scott Trust. She is chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Larry Elliott
Joined the Trust in 2002. He joined the Guardian as an industrial reporter from the Press Association in 1988. He became economics correspondent in 1989 and economics editor in 1995.
Andrew Graham
Joined the Trust in March 2005. He is the master of Balliol College, Oxford, chairman of the advisory board of the Oxford Internet Institute and an elected member of the Council of Oxford University. He was economic adviser to the prime minister, 1967-69 and 1974-76; and, from 1988-94, to the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith. From 1998 to 2005, he was a non-executive director of Channel 4 Television.
Will Hutton
Joined the Trust in 2004. He is chief executive of The Work Foundation and is a governor of the London School of Economics. He was formerly on the board of Guardian Newspapers Limited and editor in chief of the Observer.
Carolyn McCall
Joined the Trust 2006. Appointed Guardian Media Group plc chief executive in August 2006. She was first appointed to the Board in 2000, having served on the Guardian News & Media Limited board since 1995, becoming its chief executive in 2000. She is chair of Opportunity Now and a non-executive director of Tesco plc.
Geraldine Proudler
Joined the Trust in 2002. She is a solicitor specialising in media law. She is a partner at law firm Olswang. She has defended the Guardian in libel actions since 1982, including the successful defences of actions brought by cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken and Neil Hamilton MP.
Alan Rusbridger
Joined the Trust in 1997 and the Board in 1999. Joined the Guardian as a reporter in 1979, became deputy editor in 1993, appointed to Guardian Newspapers board in 1994 and became editor in 1995. He is executive editor of the Observer, a member of the Press Complaints Commission's Code Committee, a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, visiting professor of history at Queen Mary's London and chairman of the National Youth Orchestra.
Jonathan Scott
Joined the Trust in 1988. He is currently a non-executive director of Ambac Assurance UK. He was previously a director of KPMG Corporate Finance and SBC Warburg.
Maleiha Malik
Joined the Trust in 2007. She is University Lecturer at the School of Law, King's College London. A former member of independent human rights organisation the Governing Council of Liberty, Maleiha's main teaching, research interests and publications are in political and legal philosophy, feminist theory and discrimination law. From 2000 to 2005 she was a member of the Home Secretary's Steering Group on the implementation of the recommendations of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.
Anthony Salz
Joined the Trust in 2009. He is Executive Vice-Chairman of Rothschild. Before joining Rothschild in 2006 Anthony Salz was best known as one of the UK’s leading corporate lawyers. He spent most of his legal career with Freshfields, becoming Senior Partner in 1996. He was Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 2004 until the end of 2006. He is, among other things, Chair of the Eden Trust and a trustee of the Royal Opera House, the Tate Foundation, the Media Standards Trust and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Phil Boardman
Secretary
Appointed secretary of the Trust in 2004. He joined the Group and was appointed company secretary in 2001. Previously he was group financial controller of Hickson International plc and Fenner plc.