Governing Body changes
A number of important changes have recently taken place to the membership and committees of Governing Body.
Dr Jonathan Reynolds has been elected as Vice Principal of Green Templeton for a three-year term. He will also Chair the Buildings Committee and becomes a member of Academic Committee and Fellowship Committee.
Jonathan is Deputy Dean and Associate Professor in Retail Marketing at the Saïd Business School. He is one of the leading academic experts studying the future of global retailing and consumption. Jonathan is actively engaged with scholars from multiple disciplines, practitioners and with international policymakers interested in such matters.
Jonathan originally trained as a geographer and has brought a much-needed spatial perspective to scholarship in the fields of electronic commerce, innovation, retail productivity and skills, and the role of place in marketing and retailing. His research activities have also extended into science and technology futures.
Jonathan joined then-Templeton College as a Research Associate in 1985 and was one of the founding members of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management, becoming a Research Fellow and then Governing Body Fellow. He spent two periods as the college’s Senior Tutor, before becoming one of the first faculty appointments in Oxford’s new Business School.
Jonathan succeeds Professor Rebecca Surender, who remains a Governing Body Fellow.
Jonathan said of his new role,
‘It is a privilege to take on the role of Vice Principal at the college. I look forward to once again supporting the college’s leadership team and contributing what I can to what I have always felt is a wonderfully distinctive community.’
Michael Cook has been elected as a Barclay Fellow and Chair of the Development Committee. Michael was previously an Associate Fellow and member of the Principal’s Circle, which he will continue to attend in his new capacity.
Michael is the Founder and Chairman of SouthernSun Asset Management, Inc., a firm he established in January 1989. With over 35 years’ experience in the asset management industry, Michael has been instrumental in SouthernSun’s success, frequently appearing on CNBC, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg Television.
Michael contributes to educational and community initiatives as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis. He has served as Chair of the University of Memphis’s Capital Campaign Steering Committee since 2020.
Michael said of his new role,
‘As an Associate Fellow since 2020, and a friend of the college for much longer, I have discovered a warm and welcoming community of experts working in areas essential to addressing the global challenges of the future.
‘I am honoured to have been elected to Governing Body in support of the tremendous vision it has laid out for the college under the leadership of Principal Sir Michael Dixon.
‘As Development Committee Chair, I look forward to working with members from across the entire Green Templeton network to reach the ambitious objectives in front of us. I do so in the full knowledge that as a college we have something really special to offer.’
Also becoming Governing Body Fellows are:
Professor Trudie Lang is Director of The Global Health Network at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health. Her career has focused on combating diseases of poverty through the generation of high-quality evidence. Trudie has worked in industry, academia and UN organisations and within each role has aimed to drive better health outcomes in vulnerable communities by enabling local leadership and ground-up implementation of health research.
Professor Catherine Pope is based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Catherine is an expert in qualitative and mixed methods for applied health research, and a key contributor to developing methods for evidence synthesis. Her research interests encompass organisational change in health care, service delivery and reconfiguration, workforce and work in health services, and the impact of digital and web technologies on health care and services.
Professor Andrew Sharott is an MRC Investigator at the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit. His key research areas are the mechanisms through which large populations of neurons across the brain enable cognition and behaviour. By identifying the ways in which these neural dynamics are disturbed in disease, he aims to develop ways of normalising these pathological activities for therapy using brain stimulation. He is a member of Academic Committee.
Professor Sara Shaw is based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Her interests focus on the organisation, re-organisation and delivery of health and care, including the adoption and spread of technologies. Sara leads a programme of work on technology-enabled care and is Director of DECIDE, a centre focused on rapid evaluation of technology-enabled remote monitoring.
Principal Sir Michael Dixon said,
‘I am delighted to welcome Jonathan, Michael, Trudie, Catherine, Andrew and Sara to Governing Body
‘They will strengthen Green Templeton’s governance in support of the delivery of college’s strategic objectives. I would like to thank Rebecca for her guidance and support as Vice Principal since the time of my appointment, and I look forward to now working with Jonathan in that role. Michael’s appointment is particularly significant because it marks an intention to significantly step up our large-scale fundraising.
‘These new members, once combined with those standing down this year, will bring the makeup of Governing Body close to gender parity for the first time. The college has more work to do and remains committed to the Equality Objectives it has outlined.’
