Governance
Chair
Dr Sue Horner
Deputy chair
Alistair Burtenshaw
Treasurer
Nigel Williams
Trustees
Professor Teresa Cremin | Paula Gay | Santiago de la Mora | Lynne Murray | David Roche | Carol Taylor | Fiona Wheeler OBE
Biographies
Chair, Dr Sue Horner, is a consultant working in education and the arts. For many years she has promoted creativity and imagination in reading and writing in the curriculum, and the importance of writers in schools.
Sue has been a supporter of Booktrust for many years. She believes that reading and writing are fundamental to individual wellbeing and for our society as a whole. Sue was Director of Curriculum at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. She is the author of a report for Arts Council England, published in 2010, called Magic Dust that Lasts, a review of writers in schools work.
Deputy Chair, Alistair Burtenshaw, Director of Books and Publishing at Reed Exhibitions, has directed The London Book Fair, one of the world's most influential international trade book fairs, for over ten years as well as having strategic responsibility for Reed Exhibitions' portfolio of book fairs around the world. Alistair is a former Treasurer of the Conference of International Book Fairs and was previously a Board Director of the Book Trade Benevolent Society, a Management Committee Member of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and a former Chair of the KPMG Publisher of the Year Award as well as being a former Executive Committee member of English PEN.
Treasurer, Nigel Williams, spent his working life in publishing. In 1967 he joined the finance department of Penguin; over the next 28 years he held various roles there, including Company Secretary and UK Finance Director. In 1995 he moved to Virgin Books Limited as Finance Director, where he worked until his retirement in 2004.
Carol Taylor is the Director of Research and Development for the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE). She has 30 years' experience of teaching and managing learning, with all ages. She has been a primary and secondary teacher, worked in HE and FE, and in local authorities. She was formerly an adviser for Travellers and for Family Literacy, head of outreach at an FE College and a Community Tutor for Derbyshire's Adult Community Education Service. She became Director of Read On Write Away!, a partnership literacy organisation in Derbyshire ion 1997, and Chief Executive of the Basic Skills Agency in 2006.
Professor Teresa Cremin works at the Open University and is a Trustee of the UKLA and the Poetry Archive, a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and co-coordinator of the BERA Creativity SIG. Teresa has worked as a teacher, Staff Development coordinator, Director of a Reading centre, Principal Lecturer, Reader and Professor. Much of her career has been involved in educating the teachers of tomorrow and in undertaking research, publication and consultancy, both nationally and internationally. She has published over 25 books and numerous research papers. Her work focuses upon aspects of literacy teaching and learning and the development of teachers' and younger learners' creativity.
Paula Gay is an International HR Advisor at the British Red Cross. She has extensive experience in the voluntary and public sectors as an HR professional and has over 17 years experience in the field of HR Management and Development. She has experience of managing organisational restructures, and developing and delivering HR-related training to employees. In addition, she has expertise in developing HR policies and procedures as well as designing and implementing reward systems.
During her time on the Board she has worked firstly with the staff committee and latterly with the HR sub-committee group to lend her experience to the development of HR solutions for Booktrust.
Lynne Murray is Partner for TLT LLP in the Social Housing team. She specialises in the constitutional, regulatory, governance, funding and structuring side of the social housing sector. She is also recognised for her expertise in the social care sector, especially in the transfer of care homes from the public to the not-for-profit sector, and in advising on supporting people matters.
Lynne is ranked in Chambers as a leading individual in the field of Social Housing, and in the Legal 500, as a key individual in Social Housing finance.
Santiago de la Mora is the Director of Print Content Partnerships for Google in Europe, Middle East and Africa and as such he and his team manage Google's relationships with large and strategic partners in the book publishing industry as well as those with newspaper and magazine publishers. Prior to Google, Santiago de la Mora worked in content production and sales on behalf of newspapers and magazines. Most recently, he was founder of a media company that worked with European business magazines to produce sectorial and country reports on Emerging Markets. He started his career in Investment Banking in France.
Fiona Wheeler OBE is a former career civil servant, having held a wide variety of policy posts across 42 years within the Home Office, the Department of Health and the Department for Education, where until recently she managed the Government grant to Booktrust.
Her relationship with Booktrust started through her work in the Sure Start Unit, which originally funded the Bookstart programme. She worked closely with Booktrust to develop plans for the Booktime and Booked Up programmes.
Fiona spent four years on secondment to Barnardo's, where she worked directly to the Chief Executive.
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