Marjolein has been visiting Kettle’s Yard since she first moved to Cambridge, and still enjoys the experience of the student concerts, New Music concerts and the Chamber Music series at Kettle’s Yard. She regularly attends other musical and cultural events, both in Cambridge and further afield.

In return for those many hours of enjoyment, challenge and inspiration, she is pleased to support music at Kettle’s Yard more actively and to apply her University background and experience. Marjolein says, “with its newly refurbished galleries, it is an exciting time to be part of an enthusiastic team and help to make music sparkle in this wonderful space.”

Malavika is Head of Live Programme at Wellcome Collection – a museum of contemporary art and historic collections in London – where she oversees a vibrant public programme of events, broadcast partnerships, youth engagement and schools’ activity. Previously, Malavika worked for the University of Cambridge, organising the Festival of Ideas and later, as one of Arts Council England’s nationally selected ‘Change Makers’ at the University of Cambridge Museums. As a local resident, she has always loved Kettle’s Yard and is excited by the radical potential of its vision and role as a cultural space.

Helen has been teaching in a North Cambridge primary school since completing her English degree and a PGCE at Homerton College, Cambridge.

She has worked closely with the Kettle’s Yard community team for the past five years on several projects including Making Conversations and the opening ceremony in 2018 of the New Kettle’s Yard. Helen is also a member of the Open House panel selecting and working with artists and promoting Art and creativity in North Cambridge.

Favaad Iqbal is Head of Indirect Taxes at Cambridge Assessment. Fav received his PhD in Neuropharmacology from University College London in 2012 before going on to qualify as a Chartered Tax Adviser in Deloitte’s Charities & Public Sector team, advising a number of museums and galleries during his tenure. He is a holder of the ICAEW’s Diploma in Charity Accounting and recently completely his Masters in Voluntary Sector Management from Cass Business School. He lives in Cambridge and Kettle’s Yard is one of the places he most enjoys visiting – for the café and drinks receptions, as much as the art itself!

Sabine is a communication specialist with over two decades of experience leading and supporting multi-cultural teams at times of transformation. Having transferred early in her career from the arts and academia to a business environment, she continuously seeks ways to build storytelling and personal identity into organisational narrative. A Swiss and Portuguese national, Sabine has lived in the UK since 1991. Based in Cambridge since 2009, her links with Kettle’s Yard are driven by her interest in the role of museums and cultural capital in shaping the future of diverse communities.

Antoinette Jackson has been Chief Executive of Cambridge City Council since June 2009. The Council provides a wide range of services to the city. This includes arts and community development activities, including some projects in partnership with Kettle’s Yard.

Antoinette is particularly interested in how the arts can help develop communities and shape places

Prior to joining Cambridge she worked for the London Borough of Camden and Reading Borough Council. She attended Somerville College, Oxford where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Toby is a highly-experienced marketing professional with over 25 years’ experience in running marketing agencies. He is a founding partner and managing director of Sunday, an award-winning agency based in London. He develops marketing and communications strategies for digital, offline and social media, and has worked with a range of consumer and business clients from John Lewis to Savills, to Microsoft and ITV. Frequent visits to Kettle’s Yard as a teenager kick-started Toby’s lifelong love of Jim Ede’s singular vision and legacy.

Beckie is the student member of the Kettle’s Yard Committee. She is in her second year, reading History of Art at Peterhouse. When visiting Kettle’s Yard as part of her course, the rare mix of art and the everyday, as well as the continued tradition of students visiting this wonderful collection immediately sparked her imagination! For all university members, Kettle’s Yard offers a unique oasis of culture and an escape from the hectic world of university life.

Luke Syson is the fourteenth Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. From 2012-19, he was Chairman of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where he led on the complete refurbishment of the British Galleries, a $22m project, planned to open in January 2020. Luke has held curatorial positions at the British Museum, V&A and the National Gallery – where he led the successful campaign to acquire Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks for the nation and curated the highly-acclaimed exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci – Painter at the Court of Milan in 2011.

Dr Williams was educated at Dynevor Secondary Grammar School in Swansea, he came up to Christ’s College in 1968. He studied for his doctorate at Christ Church and Wadham College Oxford, working on the Russian Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky. His career began as a lecturer at Mirfield (1975-1977). He returned to Cambridge as Tutor and Director of Studies at Westcott House. After ordination in Ely Cathedral, and serving as Honorary Assistant Priest at St George’s Chesterton, he was appointed to a University lectureship in Divinity. In 1984 he was elected a Fellow and Dean of Clare College. During his time at Clare he was arrested and fined for singing psalms as part of the CND protest at Lakenheath air-base. Then, still only 36, it was back to Oxford as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity for six years, before becoming Bishop of Monmouth, and, from 2000, Archbishop of Wales. In 2002, he became the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.

He was awarded the Oxford higher degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1989, and an honorary DCL degree in 2005; Cambridge followed in 2006 with an honorary DD. He holds honorary doctorates from considerably more than a dozen other universities, from Durham to K U Leuven, Toronto to Bonn. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2003 and of the Learned Society of Wales in 2010. In 2013, he was made a life peer, becoming Lord Williams of Oystermouth, in the City and County of Swansea.

Dr Williams is a noted poet and translator of poetry, and, apart from Welsh, speaks or reads nine other languages. He learnt Russian in-order to read the works of Dostoevsky in the original. This led to a book; he has also published studies of Arius, Teresa of Avila, and Sergii Bulgakov, together with writings on a wide range of theological, historical and political themes.

As an undergraduate Richard Wilson met Jim Ede who showed him round his house.  He has chaired the Friends of Kettle’s Yard since 2013.

Richard Wilson was a civil servant for 36 years. He worked in the Cabinet Office for Mrs Thatcher, headed the Department of the Environment and later the Home Office and ended up as Secretary of the Cabinet.  After retirement he became Master of Emmanuel College for 10 years and held various non-executive positions. He still lectures and speaks occasionally in the House of Lords.