ZOË ASHCROFT
LYDIA CARLSTON
Midsummer in Oxford '01DAMI EWEDEMI
DIANE GELON
Education: LLM, London School of Economics (1986); JD, Cardozo School of Law (1984); Graduate School UCLA (doctoral studies Art History ); BA, UCLA (1970)
RUTH HOGARTH
MALCOLM JOHN
RICHARD JOHNSON
CHAIRSAMIR JOSHI
Mr. Joshi is the Head of International Investment Specialists for both EMEA and APAC regions for J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management Hedge Fund & Alternative Credit Solutions. Before joining JPMorgan Asset Management, Sam worked at Hong Kong-based Maso Capital in a Strategy, IR & BD capacity. Formerly, he ran Delta-1, ETF, and Prime Sales in Singapore & Hong Kong for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to this Sam was the Global Head of Emerging Market Sales Trading & Trading for equities & derivatives at BNP Paribas. Sam previously was the co-head of Asia at Millennium Management with responsibilities for Trading, Risk, and PM hiring. Previously he worked at Cheyne Capital in London and Hong Kong running Asian trading across various funds. Sam began his career at JPMorgan rotating through Trading, ECM, and Investment Banking. Sam completed his Masters in Chemistry from King’s College London.WENDY LU
Wendy Lu is a Director of Corporate Development at Liberty Blume in London. Her current project focuses on growing scale-up companies through acquisitions. Before London Business School, Wendy studied at Duke University in the US and worked in the tech, media and telecom industries for three years in San Francisco; first in strategy consulting and later in tech sales. She also studied and interned in China, Guatemala and Argentina, mainly in the tech and non-profit sectors. She decided to move to London long-term after spending a few months studying films and going to the theatre at King’s College London when she was 18 and finally completed the move in the beginning of the pandemic. Given her own experience, Wendy is passionate about equal access to liberal arts education and encouraging young people to study abroad. She is still very much involved with her alma maters as an alumni interview for Duke and an alumni ambassador for London Business School.MATT TRUEMAN
Since 2019, Matt Trueman has been Creative Associate at Sonia Friedman Productions, where he is responsible for discovering and developing new work for stages in the West End and on Broadway. He joined the company after a decade as a freelance theatre critic, writing for publications including the New York Times, the Guardian and the Financial Times among others. In this guise, he taught theatre criticism at BADA for a year, joining the board in 2022.MELANIE WHITTAKER