Board of Trustees
Chairman of The Institute, Lord Ryder of Wensum OBE
As a charity the ICR is governed by Charity Trustees - collectively known as the Board of Trustees. The Trustees carry the responsibility of company directors of the ICR. The Board of Trustees comprises 18 individuals nominated by The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Cancer Research UK; individuals co-opted by the Board of Trustees itself and one member elected by the Academic Board, together with ex officio members (the Chief Executive and the Academic Dean) and a student nominee.
The Board of Trustees carries the overall responsibility for ensuring that the ICR pursues its charitable objects, complies with its own constitution and relevant legislation and regulations, applies its resources exclusively to its objects, and enacts cancer research of the highest international standard.
The Board of Trustees determines the ICR's strategies; approves its scientific and financial plans, annual report and accounts and governance structure, makes key appointments (Chief Executive, Academic Dean, Chief Operating Officer) and monitors the ICR's strategic performance. It also approves new initiatives and non-recurrent expenditure costing £1m or more.
To facilitate the smooth running of the ICR, the Board of Trustees has established a number of sub-committees. The terms of reference for each committee have been approved by the Board of Trustees.
Board of Trustees:
- Lord Ryder of Wensum OBE – Chairman
- Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci - Deputy Chairman
- Konstantin Graf von Schweinitz - Honorary Treasurer
- Professor A Ashworth FRS FMedSci - Chief Executive
- Professor A Horwich PhD MRCP FRCR FMedSci - Academic Dean
- Dr P N Goodfellow FRS FMedSci
- Professor A Harris MB ChB BScHons MA DPhil FRCP FMedSci
- Mrs I Hotimsky MBA
- Mr D Itzhak
- Professor K Jones PhD CChem FRSC
- Dr H S Kumar MA MEng MBA DSc
- Lady Otton SRN
- Miss C A Palmer CBE MSc MHSM DipHSM
- Mr I Molson BSc(Hons) (Alternate Director)
- Miss A C Pillman OBE
- Mr M J Usher BA CPFA
