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The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

The Secretary of State has reappointed John Baillie and Catharine Seddon as Commissioners of the Gambling Commission commencing 31 December 2022 until 10 April 2024.

John Baillie

John is a Chartered Accountant and a former partner of KPMG in Scotland and London. He is a former Chair of the Accounts Commission for Scotland, the Scottish local authority watchdog, and served two, three-year terms. He was Chair of Audit Scotland, the Scottish equivalent of the National Audit Office for several years, and a member of the Reporting Panel of the UK Competition and Markets Authority for nine years. John was also a visiting professor of accountancy at the University of Edinburgh and has previously held similar appointments at other Scottish universities.

Catharine Seddon

Catharine Seddon has 14 years of public service as a non-executive director, principally for national regulators. Catharine has been the Senior Independent Director for The Gambling Commission since 2017. She is Deputy Chair and Chair of the Audit and Governance committee of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Senior Independent Director of the Legal Services Board. She has recently joined the board of the Children and Family Courts Advisory and Support Service.

Previously, she has held non-executive and committee roles with the Human Tissue Authority and The Pensions Regulator. She sits on tribunals in mental health and employment, as a lay assessor on civil cases in the county courts and she is a presiding magistrate in Central London. Catharine tutors for the Civil Service College and is a member of the Health Service Products Appeal Tribunal and a trustee for CPotential, a special needs charity.

Catharine spent twenty years as a high-end film documentary maker, at first at the BBC and latterly for C4, eventually setting up her own independent production company.

Remuneration and Governance Code

Commissioners of the Gambling Commission are offered remuneration of £295 per day. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. John Baillie and Catharine Seddon have not declared any significant political activity.

 

The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

The Prime Minister has appointed Jessica Pulay to a five-year term as a Trustee, commencing 19 September 2022. As a result of her appointment, the Wallace Collection Trustees have elected Jessica as their new Chair with immediate effect.

Jessica Pulay

Jessica Pulay has 35 years’ finance experience in both the public and private sectors, specialising in government and supranational funding from capital markets. She has been Co-Head of Policy and Markets at the UK Debt Management Office (DMO) since 2015 and is an executive member of its Advisory Board. She has responsibility for the UK government’s debt issuance and cash management, as well as the policy, research and business operations areas.

Prior to joining the DMO, Jessica spent 16 years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, where she was Deputy Head of Funding. Earlier in her career she was an executive director at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs and a managing director at Deutsche Bank.

Jessica’s commitment to the arts and education includes serving an eight-year term as a trustee of the Wallace Collection (2013-2021), where she chaired the Audit Committee.  She currently serves on the ENO board of trustees and has been a board member of the Arts Foundation.

Jessica has previously served on a number of other charity boards and is a board member of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), financing Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.  Following her experience in the 2004 Asian tsunami, Jessica helped to establish the Rawatha Orphanage in Sri Lanka.

Remuneration and Governance Code

Trustees of the Wallace Collection are not remunerated. Schedule 4 of the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 sets out that ‘The Board shall consist of at least six members (in this Schedule referred to as“trustees”) who shall be appointed by the Prime Minister; and the trustees shall appoint one of their number to be chairman’. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Jessica Pulay has declared no such activity.

The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

The Secretary of State has reappointed Truda Spruyt to the Theatres Trust Board for 3 years.

Truda Spruyt

Reappointed for a three-year term from 7 October 2022 until 6 October 2025.

Truda Spruyt is Managing director of the culture team at Four, where she heads up integrated, strategic campaigns for a number of cultural clients. She has almost 30 years’ experience in cultural communications, over 20 of them at Four. Clients that she works with include the Booker Prizes, the Baillie Gifford Prize, We Are Lewisham: London Borough of Culture, Jerwood Arts and StoryTrails, part of UNBOXED 2022. Key campaigns she has worked on include the Future Skills League table for Kingston University, highlighting the value of creative study and Centre Stage for the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, which led to the creation of Get Into Theatre.

Truda has extensive experience of managing complex multi-stakeholder projects and of directing strategic campaigns. She works with clients at senior level to define key messages, evaluate brand values and develop integrated communication strategies. Particular specialisms include thought leadership and cultural placemaking. Truda read English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge and was formerly Chair of the Philosophy Foundation.

Remuneration and Governance Code

Trustees of the Theatres Trust are not remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Truda Spruyt has not declared any significant political activity.

The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

The Prime Minister has reappointed Ray Macfarlane for a term of two years and six months, commencing 01 October 2022.

Ray Macfarlane

Ray Macfarlane is the Chairman of Museums Galleries Scotland having previously served as Chair of its Recognition Committee. That committee was established by Scottish Government to identify and support nationally important collections held by bodies other than the national museums and galleries.

Ray is also Chairman of the Scottish Legal Aid Board and of the Hopetoun Foundation and is a Trustee of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Her other non-executive roles have included Trustee and Deputy Chairman of the National Galleries of Scotland and Trustee of its Foundation, Chair of Scottish Screen, Deputy Chair of the Scottish Arts Council, Chair of Home Scotland and Non– Executive Director of Home Group, one of the UK’s largest Housing Associations.

Ray graduated MA, LL.B, MBA from the University of Glasgow and began her career as a commercial solicitor in private practice. She moved on to senior management roles with Bank of Scotland where she was Group Head of Community Investment and Scottish Enterprise where she was the Managing Director responsible for 6 divisions covering Business Development, Sector Development. Training and Skills Development, Competitive Place (involving property development, environmental improvement, and land engineering) Inward Investment and Export Development.

Remuneration and Governance Code

The Scotland Trustee receives remuneration of £20,749 per annum. Ray Macfarlane was initially reappointed to a second term of six months and this reappointment is therefore to a third term.This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Ray Macfarlane has declared no such activity.

The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

The Prime Minister has reappointed Jonathan Anderson, David Bomford and Marc St John as Trustees to the Victoria and Albert Museum for four year terms.

Jonathan Anderson

Reappointed for a four year term from 01 February 2023.

Jonathan Anderson is one of the leading fashion designers of his generation, earning both critical acclaim and commercial success with the collections he designs for his eponymous label, JW Anderson, and as creative director of the LVMH-owned Spanish luxury house LOEWE.

Anderson attended the London College of Fashion and launched his own menswear collection in 2008, under the JW Anderson label. In 2010, he expanded into womenswear and in 2013 was named the creative director of LOEWE. Two years later, in 2015, he became the first fashion designer to be awarded both Men’s and Womenswear Designer of the Year by the British Fashion Council. Over the course of his career, Anderson has also collaborated on collections and products for brands including Moncler, Uniqlo and Persol among others.

Outside the world of fashion, Anderson is a dedicated supporter of art and craft. In 2016, he founded the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, the world’s first international award for contemporary craft and, in 2017, he curated Disobedient Bodies, an exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire.

Born in Northern Ireland in 1984 Jonathan is the son of Irish rugby player, Willie Anderson, and Heather Buckley, who worked as a secondary school teacher.

David Bomford

Reappointed for a four year term from 31 March 2023.

After studying chemistry at the University of Sussex, David Bomford went to the National Gallery, London, where he became Senior Restorer of paintings; during nearly four decades there he worked on many important paintings and organised an award-winning series of exhibitions and catalogues on the techniques of European painters, including early Italian artists, Rembrandt and the Impressionists.

In 2007, David joined the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles as Director of Collections and then as acting Director of the museum. In 2012, he moved to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as Chair of Conservation and Head of European Art. While in Houston, he was in charge of the design and construction of a new state-of-the-art conservation building and curated exhibitions on subjects including Rubens, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Spanish Colonial painting, the Habsburgs and the British monarchy.

David has been the Secretary-General of the International Institute for Conservation; editor of the international journal Studies in Conservation; Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford; and has had visiting professorships in conservation and art history in Mexico City, in Sao Paolo, and at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington. He has many academic interests, including the study of unfinished art.

Marc St John

Reappointed for a four year term from 01 February 2023.

Marc is former head of investor relations at CVC Capital Partners, where he spent 19 years. CVC is a global fund manager with approximately $122 billion of assets under management. Prior to CVC, Marc was at Citigroup in several European corporate finance leadership positions and spent his last two years at Citigroup working directly with the chairman, John S. Reed, on special projects.

Throughout his career, Marc has lived in New York, London, Paris, and Moscow. Marc is married to Julie Newton, a Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. They have two children who live in New York City.

Remuneration and Governance Code

Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum are not remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Jonathan Anderson, David Bomford and Marc St John have declared no political activity.

The press release issued by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.