Ms Philippa Hird

Ms Philippa Hird is currently the Chair and Pro Chancellor of the University of Manchester, the Senior Independent Director of Ordnance Survey and of Cambridge University Hospitals Trust and a Non-Executive Director of Cyber and Specialist Operations Command.

As Group Human Resources Director of ITV Plc until 2009, Philippa shaped the consolidation of the regional ITV companies. Prior to that she held general management and then HR roles in Granada Group Plc. She began her career in marketing with ICI and has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from The Queen’s College Oxford.

Mr Vincent Anandraj

With a lifelong passion for ensuring that all students have equitable access to quality education, Vincent Anandraj trained as a teacher and taught at schools in London, Hertfordshire and Singapore. He was instrumental in the setting up of three international schools in the Far East. He has extensive experience in fundraising in both the charity and commercial sectors.

He completed his MA at Queen Mary, University of London and has successfully worked with companies in the various sub-sectors of Tech. Serving as a NED for a number of companies and a Trustee at charities, Vincent advises on fundraising and growth strategies.

Dr John Mueller

John has an eclectic portfolio career, combining history, heraldry and philanthropy. As a historian, John specialises in modern German history. His book The Kaiser, Hitler and the Jewish Department Store was published in May 2022 by Bloomsbury. Regius Professor Sir Richard Evans was the supervisor for the PhD on which some of the volume is based. John and his research featured in two television documentaries: a highly-rated German public television documentary and a three-part documentary on the TESCO founder Sir Jack Cohen on Channel 5.

John has worked as a professional fundraiser for the University of Cambridge, including St Edmund’s, and has volunteered for several charitable organisations, such as the Order of St John and organisations of the Church of England. John is a trustee of the largest independent sheltered housing scheme in London and continues working as a freelance fundraiser.

His heraldic work includes designing new coats of arms, identifying historic ones and hand-producing heraldic stationery, porcelain and other everyday items. John’s clients include royalty, aristocracy and clergy from all over the world. It is through this work that he was made a Knight of the Order of St Michael of the Wing, a Portuguese royal dynastic order. As an Anglican he feels this especially noteworthy within the context of St Edmund’s, as the order is normally only open to Roman Catholics who are noteworthy defenders of their faith.

Dr Lewis Bremner

Lewis Bremner is Director of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science at St Edmund’s College. He works on the history of knowledge, technology, and material culture, with a particular focus on the transnational history of Japan. He received his DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, and, prior to coming to Cambridge in 2022, held positions at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the School of Global and Area Studies at Oxford.

Dr Blaise Mafuko Nyandwi

Dr Blaise Mafuko Nyandwi is a volcanologist and disaster risk specialist at the University of Goma (DRC), where he serves as Senior Lecturer at the School of Volcanology, Disaster Risk and Catastrophe Management. He holds a BA and MSc in Geology from the University of Goma, an MSc in Environmental Engineering from the University of Burundi, and a PhD in Volcanology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research focuses on volcanic risk mitigation and community-based disaster risk reduction in the Virunga Volcanic Province.

He also is actively engaged in community-based initiatives to improve risk awareness and resilience, working with secondary schools in Goma such as coordinating an online DRR community between students in Goma and Sheffield (UK). He also supports local DRR stakeholders in strengthening operational practices. For over five years, he has contributed as a volunteer with the Start Network, supporting anticipatory action, particularly for flood risk in the DRC.

Mr Malcolm Cameron

Malcolm Cameron is a consultant Head and Neck Maxillofacial Surgeon and clinical lead at Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust where he has worked for over two decades.  He qualified in Medicine from St Bartholomew’s Hospital after his Dental degree at Guy’s Hospital, London.

His training involved time at The Royal Marsden Hospital and completed at University College Hospital in London including Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.

Within Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, his special interests are head & neck oncology with special reference to mouth cancer and reconstruction. Additionally, he manages adult and paediatric facial trauma and he also looks after salivary gland pathology and complex cutaneous malignancy.

At Addenbrooke’s he is a trainer for medical and dental core trainees plus surgeons in higher training. He hosts student selected components (SSP’s) for clinical medical students at the University of Cambridge Medical School and is the supervisor for head and neck anatomy at St Edmunds College, Cambridge.

He is a contributing author to the medical text books: Essential Surgery, Maxillofacial Trauma and Aesthetic Reconstruction.

Dr Liam Saddington

Dr Liam Saddington is a political and environmental geographer based in the Department of Geography. His research examines the geopolitics of climate change with a particular focus on small island developing states. He has undertaken research in Fiji, Tuvalu, Antigua and Barbuda, Seychelles and Cabo Verde.

He contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching within the Department. He is particularly interested in pedagogic innovations; outreach and widening participation; and connecting geography across primary, secondary and higher education.

Dr Nicky Butler

Director of Studies in Graduate Medicine (Clinical)
Dr Butler is a GP and specialty doctor in dermatology. She is also a GP tutor for the University of Cambridge General Practice Education Group.

Dr Kevin Loudon

Dr Loudon is a Kidney Research UK Clinical PhD Fellow in the Molecular Immunity Unit at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Alongside his research, he serves as an Honorary Nephrology Registrar at Cambridge University Hospitals and as a Pre-clinical Director of Studies in Medicine at St Edmunds College, Cambridge.

Prof Nikiforos Tsougarakis

Dr Tsougarakis has been Assistant Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Crete since 2022. Before joining the University of Crete, he was Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Edge Hill University. His research focuses on the ecclesiastical history of the Venetian and Frankish states of Greece, especially in the period 1204 to 1500, with a particular focus on the Franciscans. He has also published on medieval pilgrimage, the crusades and heresy.

Dr Johannes Felix Lenhard

Johannes Lenhard studied Economics and Management at Zeppelin University in Germany, before his MSc in Sociology at the London School of Economics and his MPhil and PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Since coming to London, his research has focused on various aspects of homelessness, from their survival practices to homeless policy. At Max-Cam, Johannes acts both as the centre’s research coordinator and continues his own research on inequality and ethics. His postdoctoral project turns to international venture capital investors and investigates the values and ethics behind their efforts of making a better future. His first monograph ‘Making Better Lives’ on his research with people experiencing homelessness was published in 2022 and his second one based on his VC research is under contract to be published in 2024.

Dr Joseph Millard

Interdisciplinary computational ecologist and data scientist. I have a broad interest in biodiversity modelling, ecological economics, ecosystem service risk projection (particularly crop pollination), digital metrics for monitoring human-nature interactions, evidence synthesis, the application and ethics of AI in research, and future thinking for biodiversity change prediction and solutions. My current role is as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Zoology, focusing on the potential future role of ensemble biodiversity models, central banks, and spatial finance, in solving at least some dimensions of the problems emergent from rapid biodiversity change.

Prior to my current role, I led the development of the Species Awareness Index and the meta-analytic platform Dynameta; designed ensemble threat-response models for predicting global insect biodiversity change; built automated data-handling systems for CITES data; and was a contributing author on a No. 10 Cabinet Briefing on the reintroduction of behavioural interventions for COVID-19.