Michael is an alumnus of Stonyhurst. Michael left the college in 1959 having been a member of the 1st XV, an altar server and a Committee Member. He then joined the family business in Birmingham.

He is married to Frances and they have 6 children, now very much adults. The oldest and youngest are both girls with 2 sets of boy twins, Antony and Richard and Peter and Philip, who went to the College.

Michael has previously served as a Stonyhurst Governor and is both a past Chairman and past President of the Stonyhurst Association. For 20 years he has believed that a permanent endowment is needed to finance bursaries and fee assistance so is delighted to join the Stonyhurst Foundation as a Trustee.

Michael was Chair of Trustees from 2020 to 2023.

John is Headmaster of Stonyhurst, appointed in 2016. Stonyhurst is John’s 3rd Headship in independent day and boarding schools.

Prior to joining Stonyhurst John was Headmaster of St Aloysius’ College Glasgow and is a former Headmaster of Westminster Cathedral Choir School. John is an alumnus of St Ignatius’s College Enfield, a Jesuit voluntary aided secondary school in London.

John obtained his BA (Hons) in Music from the University of Bristol. He has a post grad LLB from City University, London and an MBA from the Open University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a Freeman of the City of London and the Musicians’ Company. John is a Governor of St John’s Beaumont, a Jesuit independent day and boarding school in Old Windsor. John is married to Marie and they have a son, William.

Fr Christopher is the Headmaster of Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall, having joined Stonyhurst in September 2022. Previously Fr Christopher was Headmaster of Ratcliffe College Preparatory School in Leicestershire and Headmaster of Leicester Preparatory School and Denstone College Preparatory School.

Fr Christopher has a Master of Arts degree in French from the University of St Andrews and in Theology from the University of Oxford. He is married to Honor, who works as a GP, and has six children and two grandchildren.

Fr Christopher is a former Anglican priest who was received into the Catholic church in 2011 and is now a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Ian served as Headmaster of Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall, from 2014 until summer 2022.

Ian now serves Stonyhurst as Director of Partnerships and is a member of Stonyhurst’s Senior Leadership Group.

Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall was Ian’s second Headship in independent boarding and day schools.  Prior to joining Stonyhurst, Ian was Headmaster of All Hallows Preparatory School in Somerset for 10 years.

Ian is an alumnus of Wimbledon College, a Jesuit secondary school in London.

Ian obtained his BA (Hons) in Psychology and his PGCE from Durham University, where he was a member of Hatfield College.  Earlier in his career Ian held teaching and leadership positions in both the maintained and independent sectors.

Ian’s wife, Rachel, teaches at Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall and both of their children have attended Stonyhurst.

Fr. Keith is a Jesuit Priest.  He is the Treasurer of the British Jesuit Province.   He has a PhD in Accounting.

He first arrived in Britain, from America, in 1989 to read for a Bachelor of Divinity at Heythrop College, University of London.   After a fourth year of Theology in the United States, and following Ordination as a Catholic Priest in 1993,  he returned to Britain to undertake a PhD in Accounting at the London School of Economics.  After completing that degree in 1997 he taught in the Missouri Province for three years.   In 2000, he returned to Britain as a Lecturer in Accounting at the London School of Economics.

In 2005 when Fr. Keith took his final vows as a Jesuit he became a member of the British Jesuit Province.  In 2007, he left academia for Sacred Heart Church in Wimbledon and in 2009 became Parish Priest.  In 2014 he became the Assistant Catholic Chaplain at Oxford University.   Fr. Keith became the Treasurer of the British Jesuit Province on Palm Sunday 2019.   He was a Stonyhurst Governor from 2004 to 2012 during which time he was a strong supporter of creating a dedicated bursary endowment.

Christine is a Governor of Stonyhurst and a parent of two alumni.

Christine joined the Governing Body in 2017.   She chairs the Libraries, Archives and Collections Committee and sits on the External Affairs Committee.</h6>
After studying Modern History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Christine qualified as a solicitor in 1985.   In 1992, she co-founded Moorhead James, a commercial law firm in the City of London, where she became Joint Managing Partner in 2008.  In 2015, she joined Hewitsons LLP as a Partner and Head of their London office, where she worked with colleagues in the sport, education and charity sectors.

She retired from Hewitsons in 2019 to focus on her mediation practice. She remains a solicitor, now non-practising, and is an accredited commercial mediator.  Christine’s husband Victor and their 2 children all attended Stonyhurst College.

Winton is an alumnus of Stonyhurst.

Winton is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley. He has been based in Hong Kong for the last 12 years.

He arrived at Stonyhurst from St John’s Beaumont in 1994, spending five years at the College, where he was active in rugby, CCF, orchestra, and the choir.

Following this, Winton obtained a B.A. (Hons) in Economics & Management from Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall).

Eugene was educated at McQuaid Jesuit High School and St Bonaventure University in New York.    He is a parent of two alumni.

He has spent his career in international insurance underwriting, primarily with AIG first in New York and from 2002 in the UK.   He began his own business in 2010 and now works in London managing an insurance underwriting agency specialising in global insurance for consumer and commercial activities with Lloyds of London.

Eugene is married to Jenny a teacher at Donhead Prep School and is the proud father of a son and daughter, both OS. Eugene holds a passionate belief that the Ignatian way of encouraging children to be “men and women for others” is paramount, it is why he ensured that his children followed the established family tradition of receiving a Jesuit education and why he is so keen to assist the Stonyhurst Foundation in its mission.

Eugene was elected Chair for Trustees in June 2023.

Richard is an alumnus of Stonyhurst.

Richard works for Inalytics, a performance analytics firm that examines and evaluates portfolio manager decision making for institutional investors and asset managers.

Prior to joining Inalytics in 2019, Richard was Head of Equities for the Church Commissioners for England, the endowment fund for the Church of England and one of the largest charitable investors in the UK.   At the Church Commissioners for England, he was responsible for fund manager selection and portfolio construction in the £3 billion equity portfolio with a specific focus on global and emerging markets mandates.   Prior to working at the Church Commissioners for England in 2006, Richard worked in equity research at Unicredit based in Milan.  Richard graduated in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2002 and is a CFA and CIPM charterholder.

Richard is a member of the Investment Committee of the British Province of the Jesuits and also of the John Slater Foundation.   Richard was a pupil at Stonyhurst College and St.Mary’s Hall from 1990 until 1998.

Cathy is a parent of three current boarding pupils at Stonyhurst.

Cathy is a Managing Director in the legal department of BlackRock, a global asset management firm.  Cathy is global head of legal coverage for Client Portfolio Solutions and is also head of EMEA Institutional Legal team.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Cathy was a lawyer in the legal department at Goldman Sachs where she held a variety of roles including heading the structured products legal team.  Cathy started her career at Allen & Overy where she worked as an associate in the Derivatives Practice Group.

Cathy is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and is admitted to the New York Bar.  Cathy holds a B.A. in Law from Cambridge University.

Terry is an alumnus of Stonyhurst and a parent of four alumni.  Terry left the College in 1972 having been Captain of Cricket and a member of the 1st XV.  He was President of the Stonyhurst Association in 2015 and remains a Committee Member and a Trustee.

Terry is a Chartered Surveyor and trained at Gerald Eve before setting up his own practice near Waterloo in London in 1983.

He has previously been a Governor of Barrow Hills School, Witley, and a Trustee of the Garden Museum.

Désirée is a past parent of Stonyhurst. She is experienced in education, having raised five children and having been involved with various schools at different levels.

Désirée is German by nationality and has been living in Hong Kong for over thirty years. She is married to Hans Michael Jebsen, who is the fourth generation of the family to be active in China and Hong Kong – a family commitment of more than 125 years.

Désirée attended school in Switzerland (Ecole du Mont-Olivet, Lausanne and Ecole de La Chassotte, Fribourg).  She graduated with a French Baccalaureate before heading to Zurich University where she studied Business and IT.  After her marriage she dedicated herself entirely to the education of her five children, who are all grown up now.  In 2012 Désirée became a Dame of the Order of Malta in Hong Kong and became a founding member of the Hong Kong Association.  Désirée is currently serving as their Hospitaller.

Désirée was for many years on the Board of the German Swiss International School in Hong Kong, where she chaired the Basic Policy Committee and Fundraising Committee.   She was Chairman of the Board from 2017 to 2019.  Désirée was a member of the international parents committee of Herufsholm Kostskole, Naestved, Denmark.  She was involved in the “Boarding revival program” of Upper Canada College and she is currently on the Board of Trustees of Louisenlund, a school in Schleswig-Holstein, known for its progressive new teaching methods.