Fellows' programme
Westminster Abbey Institute runs an annual Fellows’ Programme for public servants in, or moving into, senior leadership roles.
Through a mix of seminars and residentials, members of the programme are given the opportunity to develop as servant leaders, to gain an integrated understanding of a wide range of public service institutions and their values, and to understand the moral and personal challenges facing those who work in them.
For information about the programme, and to enquire about the 2025/26 Fellows’ Programme please contact: [email protected]
Current programme members
The Revd Tom Mumford - Vicar, St Mary le Tower Ipswich, Church of England
Miriam Lorie - Rabbi, Kehillat Nashira
Connor Moore - Head of Philanthropy and Partnerships, Turn2us
Ugbana Oyet - Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons
Lt Col Jennifer Painting - Educational and Training Services Management, British Army/Ministry of Defence
Helen Hitching - Deputy Director, Digital, Data and Technology, Chief Data Office, National Crime Agency
Sarah Helferty - Director of Operations, Private Secretary’s Office, Royal Household
Sarah Brader - Director of Culture Change, Head of Business Improvement & Change Team, House of Lords
Peter Walker - Senior Political Correspondent, The Guardian
Sarah Butters - Senior Manager, Prudential Regulation Authority, Bank of England
Theo Clarke - Vice Chair, UN Association UK
Nabeela Rasul - Formerly Deputy Director, Leadership, Talent & Inclusion, DEFRA
Cllr. Fred Grindrod - Principal Official, Campaigns and Communications, NASUWT
Julie Black - Director of Discovery and Sustainability, UK Space Agency
Alice Adamson - Deputy Director Rehabilitation Strategy and Interventions, HMPPS
Dr Gareth Conway - Chief, Fellow, and Ethics Champion, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, Ministry of Defence
Rupert Littlewood - Head of the Geography Department, The Grey Coat Hospital School
Graduated fellows
2014
The Ven Elizabeth Adekunle - Chaplain to His Majesty the King, Non-executive Director, Berkeley Group
Caroline Creer MVO- Secretariat Director, The Royal Household
Tom Dannatt - CEO & Founder, Street Child
Prof Adam Dinham - Professor of Faith & Public Policy, Goldsmiths, University of London
The Revd Josh Harris – Priest-in-Charge, The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree
Peter Howitt - Managing Director, Centre for Health Policy, IGHI, Imperial College London
Jessica Lee - Barrister, 1GC
Dr Chloë Reddaway - Research Fellow (Visual Commentary on Scripture) Arts and the Sacred at King's College London; McDonald Agape Theology and the Arts Research Associate, Duke University, North Carolina
Saira Salimi - Speaker's Counsel, House of Commons
Clare Salters - Panel Member, Judicial Appointments Commission; Trustee at the OHMI Trust, Music of Life Foundation, Constitutional Society and Hounslow Music Service and Music Tutor.
Dr Alison Thomas - Paediatric Haematology Consultant, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Rebecca Vaughan - Communications adviser, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Helen Whiteoak - Head of Programmes & Engagement, National Portrait Gallery
Ben Wilson - Head of Communications, National Infrastructure Commission
Caroline Winter - Deputy Director, Ukraine Humanitarian Taskforce, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Rapela Zaman - Freelance Consultant on Science and Society
2015
Dr Chris Adams - Senior Consultant at Shearwater Global
Dr Emily Baldock - Director of Strategy and Business Planning, House of Commons
Dawn Butler - MP, Labour, Brent Central
Commander Stephen Clayman - Metropolitan Police Service
Antony Garvey – Head of Video, LBC, Global
Major Luke Hoare MBE - Company Commander, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Jane Hough - Head of Business Planning & Performance, House of Commons
Adam Irwin - Director, Global Investigations, Arcanum
Charlie Lang - Deputy Director, Department for Education
Dr Lucian Leustean - Reader in Politics and International Relations, Aston University
The Revd Alexandra Lilley - Vicar, St George & All Saints Tufnell Park
Claire Macmillen - Deputy Director, Head of Climate Change and Renewable Energy, Government Legal Department
Zoë O'Sullivan KC - Serle Court
Dr Sarah Perkins - Director, GW4 Alliance
Victoria Prentis - MP, Conservative, North Oxfordshire, Attorney General
Shamailla Rashid – Head of HR, Government Actuary’s Department
Christopher Sandamas MVO – Operations Manager, Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Private Office at HM Treasury
Richard Sargeant - Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group
Tom Tolfree - Executive Director of Portfolio Oversight at Office of Projects Victoria (OPV), Australia
Emma Woods - Director of Policy, Natural History Museum
2016
Dr Katharine Bailey - Consultant Haematologist, King’s College Hospital
Professor Andrew Blick - Head of the Department of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and Contemporary History, KCL
Ian Clarke KC - Selborne Chambers
Ben Cooper – Chief Content & Music Officer, Bauer Media Audio
John Fitzpatrick - Director, Covid-19 Public Inquiries Response Unit, Cabinet Office
Dt Sup Treena Fleming - Metropolitan Police Service
Charlotte Fox – PhD student in English Literature funded by AHRC at Royal Holloway, University of London
Martin John - Director, Science Hub Programme, UK Health Security Agency
The Rt Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett – Bishop of Croydon
Jenny McCartney – Journalist and author
Colonel Doug Pennefather – UK Ministry of Defence
Becky Purvis - Interim Director of Policy and Partnership, Health Research Authority
Talitha Rowland - Deputy Director, Security & Online Harms, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Adam Thompson - Head of Border Threats, National Crime Agency
Dr Edge Watchorn – Deputy Director, Westminster Abbey Institute
Daniel Whiteley - Strategy & Change Directorate, National Crime Agency
2017
Xenia Angevin - Principal Consulting Psychologist, OD and L&D Specialist, Res Claritas Consulting, Germany
Steve Bennett - Director, Shoreline Consultants Ltd
Captain Stuart Finn - Royal Navy, Royal College of Defence Studies
Dr Emma Fosbury - Consultant in Paediatric Haematology, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital,
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Marcus Fysh – MP, Conservative, Yeovil: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Exports in the Department for International Trade
Daniel Hobbs - Director Asylum, Protection and Enforcement, Home Office
Sarah Jones - Clerk, House of Lords
Jack Palmer-White - Anglican Communion Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Dr Lorenzo Pasculli - Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the UCL Dawes Centre for Future Crime, University College London
Daniel Pearl - Vice President, Unscripted UK Originals, Paramount+ at Paramount Global
The Revd Canon Malcolm Rogers MBE - Vicar of Huyton Quarry, Area Dean of Huyton and The Bishop of Liverpool's Canon For Reconciliation
Commander Catherine Roper - Central Specialist Crime, Metropolitan Police Service
Barbara Speed – Deputy Opinion Editor, The Guardian
Tristan Stone - Head of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Ewell Castle School
Fay Tennet - Deputy Director of Security, The Royal Household
Fleur Thomas – His Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador, Luxembourg
Jonathan Tod - Barrister, 29 Bedford Row Chambers
Carl Warner - Principal Curator, Narrative, Imperial War Museums
Polly Williams - Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Royal Academy of Engineering
2018
Paul Brummell - His Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador, Latvia
Davina Cameron Gale - History teacher, The Greycoat Hospital
Damien Dacey - Deputy Director, English Devolution and Institutions, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Rachel Davies Teka – Advocacy Director, Transparency International UK
David Fugurally - Head of Efficiency and Capability, Department for Education
Libby Kurien - Director of Business Change, Transforming Digital Programme, UK Parliament
Julia Lopez - MP, Conservative, Hornchurch and Upminster
Charlie MacDermot-Roe LVO – Independent HR Consultant
The Revd Canon Anna Macham - Canon Precentor, Salisbury Cathedral
Rebecca Mitchell - Barrister, 1GC
Noel Murphy - Lawyer, Financial Conduct Authority
Aidan Naughton - Head of Portfolio and Programmes (Applications and Information Management) and Technology Command/Portfolio and Programmes, National Crime Agency, NCA
Roya Nikkhah - Royal Editor, The Sunday Times
Chris Porter - Director of Forensic Services, Metropolitan Police Service
Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd Pritchard MBE - Royal Navy, Royal Marines
Jonathan Smith - Head of Finance, House of Lords
Alasdair Tait - Chief Executive & Artistic Director, Young Classical Artists Trust
Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge - Director of Translational Neuroscience, Boehringer Ingelheim
Alison Wragg - Older Adults Service Director for the Boroughs of Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL); Founder and Director Leone Centre, Individual & Couple Therapy and Family Therapy Services
2019
Commander Caroline Dix - Air Engineer, Royal Navy
Elizabeth Gilmore - Director, Hastings Contemporary
Rebecca Hackett - Deputy Director, DG Net Zero Head of Office and Strategic Support, The Scottish Government
Oliver Higgins - Head of Tasking, National Crime Agency
Dr Andrew Hines - Lecturer, World Philosophies, SOAS, University of London
William Humphrey-Jones - Manager/Editor, Hansard, House of Lords
The Revd Canon Dr Simon Jones - Higher Education Chaplaincy, Merton College, Oxford
Laura Marjason-Smyth – Director, Metropolitan Police
Lucy McCormick - Barrister, Henderson Chambers
Dr Cathy Miller - Deputy Director, Roads Planning and Environment, Department for Transport
James Mirza-Davies - Senior Library Clerk, House of Commons Library
Anthony Pickles - Director, The Blakeney Group
Mario Pisani - Deputy Director, HM Treasury
Elizabeth Rawlinson - Religious Studies Teacher, Bishop Luffa School, Chichester
Nadine Smith – Director of Government and Enterprise, Social Finance
Adam Smyth – Interim Director, BBC Northern Ireland
2021
Professor Holly Bridge - Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford
The Revd Ben Cahill-Nicholls - Chief Executive, Clergy Support Trust
Miriam Cates – MP, Conservative, Penistone and Stocksbridge
Chloe Challender - Senior Clerk, House of Commons
The Revd James Cruddas OBE - Deputy Director, Northern Ireland Strategy, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chris Farrimond - Director, Threat Leadership, National Crime Agency
Dr Natasha Hall - Head of Special Projects Team, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dr Eleanor James - Consultant Clinical Oncologist City Hospital, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Sharon Maddix - Deputy Director, Local Transport, Department for Transport
Rabbi David Mitchell - Co-Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue
Andrew Paterson - Deputy Director, Organised Immigration Crime, Home Office
Anthony Perks - Station Officer, London Fire Brigade
Commander Victoria Shirvill - Officer Commanding the Royal Navy Air Engineering and Survival Equipment School
Dr Edward Stevens – Impact & Knowledge Exchange Manager, King’s College London
Colonel Hannah Stoy - Personnel Lead, Headquarters Field Army
Dr Alison Wood - Fellow and Academic Director Homerton Changemakers, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
2022
Lieutenant Colonel James Ashworth - Military Assistant to Commander Home Command and Standing Joint Commander (UK)
Tammy Banks - CEO Taye Training; Lay Member of Parliamentary Committee on Standards
Becky Barrow - News Editor, The Sunday Times
Chris Chipchase - Senior HR Business Partner, Home Office
Dr Richard Douglas - Senior Analyst, National Audit Office; part-time Research Fellow of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
Rosie Duffield – MP, Labour, Canterbury
Alison Groves - Clerk, House of Commons
Kate Newton – UN World Food Programme
Leila Pilgrim - Deputy Director/Secretary to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry
Lewis Pugh OIG - UN Patron of the Oceans
Superintendent Dr Richard Smith – Metropolitan Police
Dr Tristan Stubbs - Secretary, House of Lords Commission
Dr Mehrunisha Suleman - Director of Medical Ethics and Law Education, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford
Commander Anne Sullivan MVO - Deputy Private Secretary to HRH Princess Anne, The Royal Household
2023
Rosanna Barry SCS1 - Team Leader of the Committees Scrutiny Unit, House of Lords
Dr Harrison Carter - Chief of Staff, Office of Steve Russell, National Director for Vaccinations and Screening, NHS England
Dr Tagore Charles - Consultant paediatrician, Imperial College Healthcare Trust, NHS
Sophie Duncan - Business and Strategy, NCPPE (National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Bristol University)
Jonathan Finlay - Implementation Manager – Policy, Research and Analysis Community (grade A2), House of Commons
Colonel James Greaves - Lt Col, British Army
The Revd Guy Hewitt Director of Racial Justice, Church of England, Lambeth Palace, London
Dr Neil Hudson MP - House of Commons
Detective Superintendent Christina Jessah - CID & Tasking, Roads and Transport Policing Command
Dr Siobhán Jolley - Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Research Fellow in Art & Religion, The National Gallery
Professor Yseult Marique - Deputy Research Director (International), Essex Law School
Gillian McFarland Deputy Director – Strategic Policy Directorate, Department for Education
Paul Morgan-Bentley - Head of Investigations, The Times
Nicole Nicholls - T/Director Intelligence, National Crime Agency
Kyla Owen - Ceremonial Events, Lord Chamberlain’s Office, The Royal Household
Lydia Urquhart - Head of Campaigns, Communications, Home Office
