4 July 2007
The Prime Minister has re-appointed Amelia Fawcett CBE and Professor Robert Boucher to the Board of the National Portrait Gallery for a period of 4 years from 20 June 2007.
Biographical Details:
Ms Fawcett is Chairman of a new capital markets company based in London. She is also a Non-Executive Director of State Street Corporation in Boston and the Guardian Media Group plc in London. Previously, Ms Fawcett worked for Morgan Stanley, first as an executive and then in a non-executive role. She started her career at the US law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, first in New York and then in Paris. She joined Morgan Stanley in London in 1987, was appointed Vice President in 1990, an Executive Director in 1992 and Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer for the firm’s European Operations in 1996. In 2002 she was appointed Vice Chairman reporting to the Chairman. She stepped down from her executive role in October 2006 and was a Senior Advisor to the firm until April 2007. Ms Fawcett is a member of the Court of the Bank of England (and Chairman of the Bank’s Audit Committee), a member of the Council of the University of London, Chairman of the London International Festival of Theatre and a Director of Business in the Community. She was awarded the CBE in 2002 and the Prince of Wales’ Ambassador Award in 2004. She received an honorary degree from the American University in London (Richmond) in 2006. Ms Fawcett is a British and American citizen.
Ms Amelia Fawcett has not been involved in any political activity in the past 5 years
Professor Robert Boucher has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield since 2001. Professor Boucher was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1995. Before that, he was Head of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering and a Pro-Vice- Chancellor at the University of Sheffield, where he was a member of staff for 25 years. Professor Boucher studied Mechanical Engineering at Borough Polytechnic in London, then moved to the University of Nottingham to complete his degree studies and take a PhD. After spending a year as an ICI Postdoctoral Fellow in Nottingham, he was appointed a University Research Fellow and then Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1970 he moved to Sheffield as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, becoming Senior Lecturer and Group Head for Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics in 1976. He was promoted to a Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 and became head of Department in 1987. He was appointed a Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 1992, initially having responsibility for academic affairs and then research. Professor Boucher was a Council Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Privy Council nominated Senator of the Engineering Council, and Chairman of the Engineering Professors’ Conference. Professor Boucher was awarded a CBE in the Millennium New Year Honours List, for services to higher education and the engineering profession. He is a recipient of the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane letters from the State University of New York and the Silver Felber Medal of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
He has also published in several engineering journals.
Professor Boucher has not been involved in any political activity in the past 5 years.
Notes to Editors:
The National Portrait Gallery holds the largest and most distinguished collection of portraits in the world. As an institution it fulfils a number of roles relating to the historic and contemporary aspects of this collection: a research and academic role, an educational role and a wider role within public life.
Trustees are not remunerated.
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