Zenna Hopson (born 30 September 1965) [1] is a British businesswoman and public speaker [2] who consults on education. [3]
Hopson held positions as the first chairwoman of OFSTED [4] and as chairwoman of the Royal Navy Audit Committee [1] and was chair of governors of St John's College, Portsmouth in 2022 when the decision to close it was made. [5]
Hopson won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2000 [6] and in 2003, she received an Honorary Degree from the University of Portsmouth. [7]
Hopson is the niece of the Romanian-British Intelligence officer Vera Atkins CBE. [8]
Giggleswick School is a public school in Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire, England.
The American School in London (ASL) is a private, independent school in St John's Wood, London, England, for students from kindergarten through high school.
The seventeenth Royal Navy vessel to be named HMS Dolphin was the Royal Naval shore establishment sited at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport. Dolphin was the home of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from 1904 to 1999, and location of the Royal Navy Submarine School.
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator.
St Andrew's Catholic School is a Christian secondary school and sixth form college in Grange Road, Ottways Lane, Leatherhead, close to the town of Epsom, Surrey, England. Originally a convent back in the 19th century, St Andrews School was transformed into a school in 1901; it consists of three main buildings: the central building dating back to the 1900s, a sixth form and performance arts building, finished in 2008, and the Earl building which accommodates History, Geography and Languages, finished in 2017. Named in memory of John Earl who served as Chair of Governors.
Commander James Alfred Davidson OBE was a British naval commander and diplomat. After serving during the Second World War, he joined the Commonwealth Relations Office where he held several posts in Cambodia, Brunei, Bangladesh and the British Virgin Islands. He was an honorary member of the Royal Numismatic Society.
Oaklands Roman Catholic Comprehensive School and Sixth Form College is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form college with academy status located in Waterlooville, Hampshire. It opened in 1966, although its history can be traced back to 1902. Around 1400 students attend the main school with over 150 in the sixth form college. It has been a Specialist Humanities College since 2005. The school had a "Good" Ofsted report in 2017 and were accredited with "many outstanding features".
Hannah Diggs Atkins was the member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for the 97th district from 1968 to 1980, and the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. She was later appointed to the simultaneous positions of Secretary of State of Oklahoma and Secretary of Social Services, establishing her as the highest ranked female in Oklahoma state government until she retired in 1991.
Lucy Atkins is a British author and journalist. Her novels include Magpie Lane, Windmill Hill and The Night Visitor. Her books have been published in the UK and internationally and The Night Visitor (2017) has been optioned for television.
Gavin Andrew Collins is a British Anglican bishop. He has been Bishop of Dorchester, an area bishop in the Diocese of Oxford, since 14 April 2021. From 2011 to 2021, he had been Archdeacon of The Meon in the Diocese of Portsmouth in Hampshire.
Lieutenant General Sir John Gordon Lorimer, is a retired senior British Army officer, who served as the Chief of Joint Operations and the Defence Senior Adviser to the Middle East and North Africa. He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man on 29 September 2021.
Sir Mohamed Mansour is an Egyptian-born British billionaire businessman and former politician. He is the chairman of Mansour Group, a US$6 billion conglomerate. In October 2024, Forbes estimated his wealth at $3.3 billion. He served as the Minister of Transportation in Egypt between 2005 and 2009.
Helena Louise Morrissey, Baroness Morrissey,, is a British financier, campaigner and Conservative peer.
Sir Timothy David Melville-Ross is a British businessman who was CEO of Nationwide Building Society from 1985 to 1994 and went on to hold the role of chairman at several major companies, often simultaneously. Before and after his retirement from business he had leading roles in public bodies in areas including education and business ethics.
Liberty Vittert Capito is an American statistician, political commentator, and host of Liberty’s Great American Cookbook, a cooking show on Scottish Television.
The office of Treasurer of the Conservative Party was established in 1911, along with that of Chairman, as part of a wider reorganisation of the Conservative and Unionist Party's machinery following the party's failure to win the general elections of January and December 1910.
Sir Joseph Edward Hotung was a British/Hong Kong businessman, art collector, and philanthropist.
Cleveland Anthony Sewell, Baron Sewell of Sanderstead, is a British educational consultant and founder and chair of the educational charity Generating Genius. In July 2020, Sewell was appointed chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities tasked with looking into race disparity in the UK. Sewell sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He has been described as an admirer of the Black conservative scholar Thomas Sowell.
Alison Deborah Moira Hewitt is a British businesswoman and sports administrator. She was appointed as chair of the Football Association in June 2021, taking up the role in January 2022. Hewitt is the first woman to hold the post. Hewitt was previously chairwoman of The Restaurant Group.
Sense is a charitable organization based in the United Kingdom. The charity exists to support people who are deafblind or who have a hearing or vision impairment and another disability and campaigns for the rights of disabled people in the UK. It operates in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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