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Dame Kate Barker

Dame Kate Barker DBE CBE

Honorary Fellow

Dame Kate Barker DBE CBE

Honorary Fellow

Kate Barker is a business economist.  She is presently as a non-executive director of Taylor Wimpey plc and Man Group plc.  Among other roles she is also chairman of trustees for the British Coal Staff Superannuation Fund.

Kate was a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) from 2001 until May 2010.  During this period, she led two major policy reviews for Government, on housing supply and on land use planning.

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Dame Bridget Ogilvie DBE FRS

Honorary Fellow

Dame Bridget Ogilvie DBE FRS

Honorary Fellow

Former Director, Wellcome Trust

Kate Glennie, with long dark hair, wearing a black jumper and gold necklace, smiles while standing outdoors in front of green bushes and a tree.

Ms Kate Glennie

Fellow, Development Director

Ms Kate Glennie

Fellow, Development Director
Ms Kate Glennie MA was appointed the College’s first full-time Development Director in January 2017, and is responsible for Alumni Relations and Fundraising at St Edmund’s.

Kate studied History as an undergraduate and postgraduate at University College London before joining the Development Office at the London School of Economics in 2003 to work on their £100 million Campaign.

Prior to her appointment at St Edmund’s, Kate spent three years as Development Manager at Trinity College, overseeing their Major Gifts team.

Kate Wilson, a woman with short grey hair and glasses, wearing a grey blazer and black shirt, stands outside in front of a historic stone building with green grass and yellow flowers.

Ms Kate Wilson

Bye-Fellow

Ms Kate Wilson

Bye-Fellow

Kate is Vice-Principal, Advancement at Queen’s University in Canada. She began her career in fund raising after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Queen’s in 1986. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996 and relocated to the UK to work in telecommunications and media.

From 2012-2019, she was Chief Operating Officer, Development and Alumni Relations at the University of Cambridge. She directed the £2 billion “Dear World, Yours Cambridge” campaign. She became a fellow of St Edmund’s College in 2016 and served on Council, various college committees and as a tutor.

She was CEO of RegGenome, a research spin-out from Cambridge Judge Business School, and then Director at IMAGINE where she built community to enable positive impact among global system leaders. As a freelancer in Cambridge, she worked with leaders across the University and colleges to refine strategy and align operations to maximize funding and impact. Until mid-2025, she was CEO of Cambridge’s Centre for Better Futures.

Dr Kate Brett, a person with light skin and straight, light brown hair, smiles at the camera. She is wearing a dark top and standing indoors against a plain background.

Dr Kate Brett

Fellow

Dr Kate Brett

Fellow
Publisher Academic Group, Cambridge University Press

Dr Katharina Brett is a Publisher in the Academic Group of Cambridge University Press, where she has worked for over twenty-five years. During that time, she has been responsible for commissioning and publishing new books in subjects including literary studies, language and linguistics, and religious studies.  This has involved regular travel to conferences and university campuses in Europe, North America and Australia. Dr Brett is currently developing a new initiative within the Press, the Cambridge Library Collection.  Her academic background is in Modern and Medieval Languages, which she studied at Cambridge, eventually specialising in the literature of medieval France. She was a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund’s College from 1984 to 1986, and re-joined the Fellowship in 1999. As a Fellow, she is a member of the College’s Governing Body and has served for four years on the College Council. Her College work includes the library, Von Hügel Institute and Dean’s committees. Dr Brett is an accomplished violinist, who plays regularly in a quartet and the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. Her recreational interests include gardening, mountain walking and travel.

Dr Andy Harter, CBE, a middle-aged man with glasses, short hair, and a beard, wearing a dark jacket and light-coloured shirt, stands in an office setting with blurred people and computers in the background.

Dr Andy Harter CBE DL FREng

Fellow

Dr Andy Harter CBE DL FREng

Fellow
Fellow, Computer Laboratory; Chair, Cambridge Network; Vice President, The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Dr Andy Harter CBE, DL, FREng, CEng, FIET, FBCS, CITP, FLCM, FRSA, read Mathematics and Computer Science at Fitzwilliam College. As a graduate student at Corpus Christi and the Computer Laboratory, he investigated designs for three-dimensional integrated circuits. His doctoral thesis was published by Cambridge University Press and is still available having been recently reprinted!

Since then he has been engaged in industrial research and development for communications systems, and was director of research and engineering of the AT&T Cambridge Laboratory. He has contributed extensively and significantly in the fields of distributed systems, ubiquitous and context aware computing, user-interface design and thin-client systems most notably VNC, a system that lets one person take over another person’s computer screen to help them fix problems. The software is now on over a billion devices, on more different kinds of computer than any other application and is even an official part of the internet. The software is also embedded in Intel Chips, Apple Desktops, Google Software, mobile phones and cars.

Andy is a Fellow of the Computer Laboratory involved with graduate student research programmes, and lectures to final year undergraduates. He is the founder and CEO of RealVNC, a highly successful Cambridge software company which in 2013 won its third Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in three years. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2010, he received the Academy’s Silver Medal, and in 2013 the MacRobert Award, the most prestigious UK prize for engineering and commercialisation. In 2016 he was awarded the Faraday Medal, the highest honour of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and gave the 2018 Turing Lecture. He is a trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, The Computer History Museum and Britten Sinfonia. He is a Chair of Cambridge Network and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was awarded a CBE in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.  He is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County and was appointed by HM The Queen as the High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire for 2018-19.

At St Edmund's Andy has been a Tutor, Director of Studies in Computer Science, Senior Treasurer of the May Ball and Family officer. He is married to Lily and they are kept busy with their young family. Other interests include golf, rowing, gardening and music, particularly the piano and organ, for which Andy is a Fellow of the London College of Music. He also enjoys travel, and has ventured in a single-engined light aircraft to Iceland, Greenland, Northern Canada (to within a few hundred miles of the North Pole), North and South America (crossing the Andes, rounding Cape Horn and visiting the Falkland Islands).

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Professor Bruce Alberts CBE

Honorary Fellow

Professor Bruce Alberts CBE

Honorary Fellow

Former President, US National Academy of Sciences

Smiling older man with grey hair, Dr Hermann Hauser, wearing a navy suit, white shirt, and a dark patterned scarf around his neck, standing indoors with a blurred background.

Dr Hermann Hauser KBE CBE FRS FREng

Honorary Fellow

Dr Hermann Hauser KBE CBE FRS FREng

Honorary Fellow

Dr Hermann Hauser KBE CBE FRS FREng is an Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Honorary Fellow at St Edmund's College.

In his long and successful career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin our ARM), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Limited.

Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds an Honorary Doctorate from several other universities.  Dr Hauser was awarded a CBE in 2001 for ‘innovate service to the UK enterprise sector’.  In 2012 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2015 he received a Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to engineering and industry.

CBE FRS professor Brian Heap, an older man with grey hair and glasses, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and patterned tie, poses against a softly blurred blue and grey background.

Professor Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS

Honorary Fellow

Professor Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS

Honorary Fellow
Former Master of St Edmund's College

Sir Brian Heap has doctorates from the Universities of Nottingham and Cambridge in animal physiology, and has published on endocrine physiology, biotechnology, sustainable consumption and production, and science advice for policy makers. He was University Demonstrator at the University of Cambridge, staff member of the Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, Director of the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (Cambridge and Edinburgh), and Director of Research at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Swindon. He was President of the Institute of Biology, UK Representative on the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, UK Representative on the NATO Science Committee, member of the Scientific Advisory Panel for Emergency Responses (SAPER), Chief Scientist’s Office, Cabinet Office, and member of the Advisory Board of the Templeton Foundation. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, he became a member of Council, and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President from 1996 to 2001. In 1994 he was awarded CBE and in 2001 knighted for contributions to international science.

Sir Brian was President of the European Academies Science Advisory Council, Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, and is Chief Scientific Advisor to the Malaysian Commonwealth Study Centre and the Cambridge Malaysian Education and Development Trust, and is a Trustee of the Cambridge China Development Trust. He was Master of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and is Honorary Fellow at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and formerly at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He was Editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, Chair of the Advisory Panel on Sustainable Consumption and Production at the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs, and Specialist Advisor to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Putting Science and Engineering at the Heart of Government Policy.

With the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Department of Health’s Expert Group on Cloning, the EU President’s Advisory Group on Biotechnology, and the UK-China Forum he has been engaged in issues of population growth, environment and biotechnology. He is Senior Adviser of the Smart Villages Initiative in Africa, Asia and Latin America, International Adviser, Global Food Security, University of Cambridge, and previously project co-leader of Biosciences for Farming in Africa. He was scientific consultant for Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Johnson and Johnson, and Ligand Pharmaceuticals in the USA, and Principal Scientific Adviser for ZyGEM Co Ltd, New Zealand.

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Sir James MacMillan CBE

Honorary Fellow

Sir James MacMillan CBE

Honorary Fellow
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Professor Christopher Rapley CBE

Honorary Fellow

Professor Christopher Rapley CBE

Honorary Fellow

Former Director of the Science Museum, London

Vittorio Montemaggi, a man with short brown hair, a beard, and glasses, is wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and striped tie whilst standing outdoors in front of a blurred building and black metal fence.

Dr Vittorio Montemaggi

VHI Director, Fellow

Dr Vittorio Montemaggi

VHI Director, Fellow

Vittorio Montemaggi is Director of the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry of St Edmund’s College.

Vittorio is also the Academic Director of Notre Dame London, responsible for leading the academic team, shaping the academic vision, and advancing the University’s mission of education and research in the UK. Vittorio oversees Notre Dame London’s academic programs, as well as its academic partnerships and collaborations with institutions in the UK.

Vittorio previously served as a faculty member at Notre Dame from 2009 to 2017 and most recently as reader in religion, literature, and the arts at King’s College London.

Vittorio’s primary academic expertise is in the relationship between literature and theology, and in the significance of the arts for humanity’s exploration of divinity. His research focuses primarily on Dante and Primo Levi, and his comparative interests also entail exploration of works of authors as different as Saint Gregory the Great, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Saint Catherine of Siena, Shakespeare, Mozart and Roberto Benigni.

John Jenkins

Rev John I Jenkins, C.S.C

Honorary Fellow

Rev John I Jenkins, C.S.C

Honorary Fellow

University of Notre Dame President Rev John I Jenkins, C.S.C. is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund’s College.

He was elected in recognition of his significant contributions to higher education, as well as for his role in developing the partnership between St Edmund’s and Notre Dame.

Fr Jenkins, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, was elected the 17th president of the University of Notre Dame in 2005. As president of Notre Dame, Fr Jenkins has contributed significantly to wider debates in higher education and society, especially in civil discourse. His achievements are characterised by a strong commitment to building common ground against increasingly widespread polarisation.

Prof Patrick Griffin

Professor Patrick Griffin

Bye-Fellow

Professor Patrick Griffin

Bye-Fellow

Professor Patrick Griffin is Bye-Fellow at St Edmund's College and a Madden-Hennebry Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He is an historian, trained as an early Americanist and specialising in the Atlantic world. His work ranges from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It brings together American, British, and Irish history.

Patrick Griffin's work explores the intersection of colonial and early national American and early modern Irish and British history. As such, it focuses on Atlantic-wide themes and dynamics. He has published work on the movement of peoples and cultures across the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the process of adaptation. He also examines the ways in which Ireland, Britain, and America were linked—and differed—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has looked at revolution and rebellion, movement and migration, and colonization and violence in each society in comparative perspective. Much of what he does explores these themes in the context of empire. In his most recent books, he studied how empire gave way to revolution, both in America and the wider Atlantic. His latest work on the period just after the Age of Revolution has taken a global turn, charting the plight of common men and women in a modernizing world.

Publications

  • The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World (Yale, 2023).
  • The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (Yale, 2017).
  • America’s Revolution (Oxford, 2012).
  • American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier (Hill & Wang, 2007).
  • The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish (Princeton, 2001).

Awards & Recognitions

  • Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History, University of Oxford, 2021-22.
  • Honorary Professor, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 2018-21.
  • Distinguished Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
  • Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy
  • Member, American Antiquarian Society
Revd Dr Kevin Grove, a man with short light brown hair, is wearing a black clerical suit and white collar, posing in front of a plain grey background.

Revd Dr Kevin Grove

Visiting Scholar

Revd Dr Kevin Grove

Visiting Scholar

Revd Dr Kevin Grove is an Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Born and raised in Montana, USA, Kevin Grove was ordained a Holy Cross priest at Notre Dame in 2010. After doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) and before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Grove was a post-doctoral researcher at L’Institut Catholique in Paris, France and a fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to his research and teaching, Grove serves at Notre Dame as an assistant faculty chaplain, Director of the Master of Divinity program, and as a pastoral resident for undergraduates in Dunne Hall.

Mr Scott Jackson, a man with short brown hair, a trimmed beard, and blue eyes, wears a navy blazer over a light pink dress shirt. He looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression against a dark background.

Mr Scott Jackson

Research Associate

Mr Scott Jackson

Research Associate

Scott Jackson has served as the Mary Irene Ryan Family Executive Director of Shakespeare at Notre Dame since the position was created in 2007, providing oversight for the many Shakespeare-related programs housed at the University of Notre Dame, with a particular focus on engaging the local community through the works of William Shakespeare.

Previously he served as executive director for the Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre (FST) in Fairbanks, Alaska. At FST he produced and performed in outdoor Shakespeare productions staged under the midnight sun at venues throughout Alaska and around the globe (most notably at the VIII World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, Australia, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland). From 2000–2003, Scott was the business and legal affairs coordinator for Brighter Pictures, Ltd (now a part of Endemol Shine UK), one of the United Kingdom’s most successful independent television and film production companies.
He holds a dual BA in theatre and history from Indiana University Bloomington, an MFA (distinction) in Actor Training and Coaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London), and is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher (CKYT-200) under acclaimed practitioner Maya Fiennes. He has produced, directed, and performed in over 175 theatrical productions.

Scott currently serves as the vice president/president-elect for the Shakespeare Theatre Association, where he also served as treasurer from 2013-2017. He has taught acting process at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the University of Notre Dame, Holy Cross College, and Indiana University South Bend. Since 2018 he has taught Meisner acting technique and Mindfulness for the Artist for the Prague Shakespeare Company’s Summer Shakespeare Intensive.

A firm believer in the power of Shakespeare and the theatre arts to affect positive social change, he is a co-founder of the Shakespeare in Prisons Network. He teaches a Shakespeare in performance course and leads the kundalini yoga club at the Westville Correctional Facility, Indiana’s largest state prison.

Additionally, he has developed an anti-harm approach to actor training called Foundationing and presented this research at the annual meetings of the European Society of Criminology, the British Shakespeare Association, the Shakespeare Theatre Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, Theatre Communications Group, and the World Shakespeare Congress.

He is the recipient of the Shakespeare Association of America’s Publics Award for the production of the 4th International Shakespeare in Prisons Conference in 2020-21, the Robinson Community Learning Center’s Arthur Quigley, PhD award for community service, and the Fairbanks, Alaska Downtown Association’s Golden Heart award.

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