Corporate report

List of board members’ interests: March 2025

Updated 25 February 2026

Applies to England

This list covers executive and non-executive members of the Department for Education’s Board as of March 2025. The Cabinet Office publishes ministers’ interests.

Entries reflect members’ current positions and are based on a member’s discretionary judgement of what might form a potential conflict of interest, based on the guidance from the code of conduct for board members of public bodies.

The list covers:

• remunerated directorships
• other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity
• significant shareholdings or interests in public or private companies
• miscellaneous and unremunerated interests
• disclosure of family members’ interests

Executive members

Susan Acland-Hood

Remunerated private sector directorships

• None declared

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• Landowner in Somerset
• Share ownership in diverse portfolio, managed remotely with standing instructions to avoid investing in areas that could give rise to conflict or perceived conflict

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• Fairfield Charitable Trust (Trustee)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy (Policy Leader Fellow)
• Royal Academy of Engineers (Member of Advisory Board, Policy Fellow Programme)

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• Brother works in the Department for Education

Justin Russell

Remunerated private sector directorships

• None declared

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• None declared

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• Ex-spouse, Hanover Primary School, Islington (Headteacher)

Juliet Chua

Remunerated private sector directorships

• None declared

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• Whitehall and Industry Group (Trustee)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• None declared

Jane Cunliffe

Remunerated private sector directorships

• None declared

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• St Mungo Community Housing Association (Trustee)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• None declared

Tony Foot

Remunerated private sector directorships

• None declared

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• None declared

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• Spouse, Phoenix Group (Director of Phoenix Insights)

John Edwards

No interests declared

Julia Kinniburgh

Remunerated private sector directorships

• None declared

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• St Bede’s School Redhill (Governor)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• None declared

Non-executive members

Sir Kevan Collins

Remunerated private sector directorships

• Collins Education Associates Ltd
• Learning by Questions Ltd
• Goodstart Early Learning Ltd (Australian Early Years Provider, Non-Executive Director)

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• The Attwood Education Foundation (Consultant)
• South Australian Government Education External Advisory Board Member

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• The Education Endowment Foundation (Non-Executive Director)
• HG Foundation (Trustee)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• None declared

Stuart McMinnies

Remunerated private sector directorships

• Duke Street LLP (Senior Adviser)
• Ardent Hire Solutions Ltd (Non-Executive Director)

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• APEM Ltd (Investor)
• Delfield Group Holdings Ltd (Investor and Non-Executive Director)
• Unilever plc (Investor)
• Tryzens Ltd (Investor)
• Alpine Fire Engineers Ltd (Investor)
• Vistry Group plc (Investor)
• Eque2 Ltd (Investor)
• Herondale Investment Holdings Ltd (Owner)
• Smart CT Ltd (Investor)
• Techex Ltd (Investor)
• Channel 3 Consulting Ltd (Investor)
• Aptus Group Ltd (Investor)
• Survey Solutions Ltd (Investor)
• Causeway Securities (Investor)

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• Save the Children UK (Trustee)
• University of Southampton (Treasurer)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• Wren Midco Ltd
• Wren Buyerco Ltd
• Wren Topco Ltd
• Fork Rent Ltd

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• Spouse, Herondale Investment Holdings Ltd (Owner)
• Spouse, Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust (Non-Executive Director)

Jack Boyer

Remunerated private sector directorships

• Ricardo plc (Non-Executive Director)
• TT Electronics plc (Senior Independent Director)
• Bela Holdings AG (Non-Executive Director)

Other remunerated employment, office, profession etc

• Royce Hydrogen Accelerator (Chair of Trustees)

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• University of Bristol (Chair of Trustees)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• Spouse, SafeLives (Chair)

Sir Peter Bazalgette

Remunerated private sector directorships

• Acamar Films (Non-Executive Director)
• CI Implementation Ltd (Director)
• Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Chair)
• Business London (Board Member)

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• CMi Mentoring

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• Royal College of Art (Chair of Council)
• Creative Industries Council (Co-Chair)
• Creative UK Holdings Ltd (Non-Executive Director)
• Care Leavers Covenant (Chair of Business Council)
• Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Chair) (Involves a corporate directorship of the Samuel Johnston Prize for Non-Fiction Ltd)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• Spouse, Cell Therapy Catapult Ltd (Non-Executive Director)
• Spouse, Intellectual Property Office (Non-Executive Director)
• Spouse, British Science Association (Chair)
• Spouse, English National Opera (Non-Executive Director)
• Spouse, British Association for the Advancement of Science (Trustee)

Steve Crocker

Remunerated private sector directorships

• Steve Crocker Consultancy Ltd

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• National Children’s Bureau (Trustee)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• None declared

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• None declared

Rebecca George

Remunerated private sector directorships

• None declared

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• Metropolitan Police

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• St Peter’s Church Staple Fitzpaine (PCC member)
• BCS Chartered Institute of IT (Member of Investigations Panel)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• Denbigh Street Management Ltd (Director)
• University of Bradford (Honorary Doctorate)

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• St Peter’s Church Staple Fitzpaine (Church Warden)

Naomi Eisenstadt

Remunerated private sector directorships

• Kindling Interventions (Director)

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• Northamptonshire NHS Integrated Care Board (Chair)
• Department for Health and Social Care (Non-Executive Board Member)
• Social Mobility Commission (Advisor)

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• Education Endowment Fund (Trustee)
• Aberdeen Financial Fairness Trust (Trustee)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• Advisory Board Thrive at Five (Member)
• Advisory Board Sutton Trust (Member)

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• None declared

Margaret Casely-Hayford

Remunerated private sector directorships

• The Co-op Group (Non-Executive Director)

Other remunerated employment, office, profession and other activity

• None declared

Significant shareholdings or interests in listed or private companies

• None declared

Public sector or charity positions of influence

• LeatherSellers Academy Schools (Patron)
• Girls’ Brigade Ministries (Patron)
• Radcliffe Trust (Trustee)
• Concert Theatre Works (Trustee)
• UltraEducation (Advisor)

Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests

• Co-Op Party (Member)

Disclosure of family members’ interests

• Spouse, GQA Architectural Practice (Founding and Principal Director)
• Nephew, Casely-Hayford Tailoring and Clothing Retail (Principal Director)
• Niece-in-law, Studio Ashby (Founder and Principal Director)
• Brother, V and A East (Executive Director)
• Nephew-in-law, Paul Smith Foundation (Executive Director)