Board of Trustees

Cape Farewell is a registered charity (No 1094747). The following people sit on Cape Farewell's board of trustees:

• Charlie Kronick
• Graham Devlin
• John Hammond
• Diana Liverman
• Ian McEwan
  
• Fiona Morris
• Michael Wilson

Graham Devlin

Graham Devlin is a writer and director in both theatre and opera, a senior arts manager and a cultural strategist. As an artist, he has directed in the UK, Europe, the United States and Australia for, amongst others, the National Theatre, Aldeburgh Festival, Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne, Adzido Pan-African Dance Company, Nitro and the Sydney Opera House. As a manager, he has run both theatres and festivals as well as his own successful touring theatre company Major Road from 1973 to 1997 at which point, he was appointed Deputy Secretary General and Acting Chief Executive of the Arts Council of England.

Since leaving the Arts Council he has worked as a consultant, specialising in the field of cultural strategy with a client list that includes Central Government (Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Cabinet Office, Scottish Executive); Non-Departmental Public Bodies (e.g. Arts Council of England, Franco-British Council, Museums. Libraries & Archives, Scottish Arts Council, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, National Foundation for Youth Music), local authorities (principally Greater London, Edinburgh and Liverpool for its successful European Capital of Culture bid) and many arts organisations (including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wales Millennium Centre and the National Museum of Science and Industry).

He was Chair of Phoenix Dance for seven years, has served on numerous Arts Council and Government committees and is currently a board member of the Royal Court Theatre in London. He has also been Visiting Professor of Cultural Policy at Queen Margaret's University College in Edinburgh.

Charlie Kronick (Chair)

Charlie is the Director of Climate Strategy for Greenpeace UK. Charlie has worked in the field of environment and development for two decades. At Greenpeace UK and elsewhere he has been an activist/climber/inflatable driver, campaigner, thinker and writer on issues including the international trade in hazardous waste, incineration, ozone depletion, transport and road building, climate change, genetic engineering, sustainable agriculture and the environmental and social impacts of corporate globalisation. Born in Minnesota, Charlie trained as a historian and historical bibliographer/rare book librarian at Columbia University and the New York Public Library in the US, an obliquely appropriate preparation for most of what has ensued.

John Hammond

John has supported Cape Farewell since the first ideas of creating it were born, and was chairman of the trustees for the first five years. He brings extensive experience of education policy and practice and in the management of major development and dissemination projects in the public sector. He is well versed in the science of climate change and is familiar with the political context and the challenges of communicating controversial messages in effective ways. He has used a bicycle to get around London for the last 40 years, mainly because it is more convenient and reliable than other methods but also celebrating the fact that it increases his CO2 output only marginally and in a way that improves health. 

Diana Liverman

As Director of the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) Diana coordinates the work of more than 100 interdisciplinary contract researchers and doctoral students who work primarily in the areas of climate, energy and ecosystems with a strong applied and policy focus. ECI hosts or co-hosts national and international projects that include the UK Climate Impacts Programme, the Oxford node of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the UK Energy Research Centre, and the ICSU Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) international project office. ECI also hosts a node of the James Martin 21st Century School for Oxford University.

Diana's professional career prior to moving to Oxford was based in the United States with degrees in geography from Toronto (MA) and UCLA (PhD), postdoctoral fellowships from NCAR and the MacArthur Foundation, and faculty positions in geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Penn State and the University of Arizona (where she was also Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies and Dean of Social and Behavioural Sciences).

Her personal research has focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change including climate change policy and impacts, the social causes and consequences of land use change, and environmental management in the context of globalisation, especially in the Americas.

This research has led Diana to a variety of leadership roles including chair of the US National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change and the science committee for GECAFS, chair of the Latin American Studies Association Environment section; co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Inter-American Institute for Global Change; and member of committees for IGBP-Analysis, Integration and Modeling in the Earth Sciences (AIMES), the US National Academy of Sciences committee on the US Climate Change Science Plan, NOAA Social Science Advisory Board, NASA, NOAA Global Change Program, the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the Global Change, Publication and Honors Committees of the Association of American Geographers.

Diana is a member of editorial boards of the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Global Environmental Change, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and Climatic Change. She has been a contributing author and reviewer for three Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments, including the most recent (2007) and have given evidence to congressional and parliamentary committees in the US and UK.

In the last few years Diana has been honoured to give several plenary and distinguished lectures including at the Earth Systems Science Partnership Summit in Beijing China; the Nordic Geographers meeting in Lund; the Humboldt Lecture in the Department of Geography, UCLA; a Darwin Lecture in Cambridge; and was a distinguished visiting scholar at Queens University and Memorial Universities in Canada.

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan joined Cape Farewell on the 2005 Art/Science Expedition. Since then his writing from the expedition has been shown in Cape Farewell exhibitions The Ice Garden and Art & Climate Change.  In June 2008 Ian McEwan surprised audiences at the Hay Festival by reading an extract from his next novel about climate change.  He cites the Cape Farewell expedition as an impetus for the novel.

Ian was born in 1948 in Aldershot, England. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. While completing his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, he took a creative writing course taught by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson.

Ian's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Among them are the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.

He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday. His latest novel, On Chesil Beach, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize (2007).

Fiona Morris

Fiona Morris is Head of Arts for Initial Television part of the EndemolUK Group. She is responsible for developing of a wide range of programmes from arts documentary series to single dramas. Recent projects include Damon and Jamie's Incredible Adventure (BBC One), Inspector Morse at the Royal Albert Hall (ITV), Vivaldi's Women (BBC), Imagine A Diva (BBC), and currently in development with two drama projects Neil Labute's Autobahn (BBC) and Sweet Swan (BBC).

Prior to that as a Music and Arts executive producer at the BBC she was responsible for the primetime Emmy nominated Little Prince, Grammy nominated Trouble in Tahiti and Turn of the Screw. As well as many live events and shows from Pop (Pulp at Eden, Bjork at ROH), Jazz (Jamie Cullum), Classical Music (Cardiff Singer of the World, Choir of the Year) and the Lesley Garrett shows on BBC.

As a freelance documentary producer she has also made films for Imagine, Fine Cut, Dance for the Camera, and Sound on Film series as well as producing the award winning television adaptation of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake.

Michael G Wilson, OBE

Michael G. Wilson received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California and a Doctor Juris from Stanford Law School. He worked as a lawyer for the Department of Transportation in Washington D.C. before joining the law firm of Surrey and Morse. He became a partner in the firm in 1972 specializing in International Tax and Business Transactions. He left the firm in 1974 to join Eon Productions Limited, where he became Assistant to the Producer on The Spy Who Loved Me.

Wilson then went on to Executive Produce Moonraker and the next two Bond films. He co-wrote For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill with veteran screenwriter Dick Maibaum. He co-produced with his stepfather, the late Albert R. Broccoli, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. When James Bond returned to the screen after an absence of 6 years, Michael Wilson and his sister Barbara Broccoli produced Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day, which coincided with the 40th anniversary of the Bond series and most recently Casino Royale.

Michael is also recognized as a leading expert on 19th-century photography. He began collecting in the late 1970's. His first acquisitions focus on 19th-century travel and fine art photography. Over the years his interests have diversified to include 20th-Century photography.

In 1998 Michael formed the Wilson Centre for Photography, an archive for the preservation of early photographs and for study and research on the history and aesthetics of photography. The study room and library are open to students and researchers by appointment. The WCP has an active program which includes lending photographs for exhibitions at international museums and galleries. The Centre also offers courses and seminars on photography.