Appointment by LDBS from May 2020 to May 2024 (first appointed May 2016)

Chair of Resources and Risk Committee

Hamish graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with a BSc in computer science and physics. He then joined a financial technology firm, Sinara Consultants, where he has held both engineering and sales & marketing responsibilities, working with exchanges and financial institutions in the UK and abroad. Whilst at Sinara, he has also taken part in the recruitment and supervision of new graduates. In addition to his full-time work in the IT industry, Hamish writes books for children, and visits schools to deliver reading and writing workshops. He also serves as ward councillor for Earl’s Court in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None

President, ex-officio Governor

Father Paul has been the Parish Priest at St Cuthbert Church since March 2013. Having been educated at King's School, Rochester, he studied theology and history in York, and then spent a year with the Francisans in Papua New Guinea before training to be a priest at Wescott House in Cambridge. 
He served his title at St Peter and St Paul, Chingford, was ordained Deacon in 1988 and Priest in 1989. He served a second curacy at St Saviour's and St James the Less, Pimlico, and 18 years Vicar of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell, and St Marks, Myddleton Square. 
He is currently Chaplain to St John Ambulance, serves on the Court of Zion College, is a Priest's Vicar at Westminster Abbey, and a Surrogate for the Diocese of London.

Relevant business and other interests: Charity trustee of St Cuthbert Centre and of William Temple House

Chaplain of the County Priory Group St Johns Ambulance

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/partner/relatives: None

Appointment by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from February 2019 to February 2023 (first appointed February 2015)

Teaching and Learning Committee Member

After graduating with an BA from Princeton University (Classics) I taught English in a girls’ middle school in Tokyo for two years. I then came to London and, with another four years in Japan, raised four children. I have been Mistress of the Grocers’ Company, involving a number of visits to various kinds of schools. I volunteer at the Rugby Portobello Trust homework club and I am on the Council of Christ Church Kensington and the Christ Church Community Trust. With my sons I administer an educational charitable trust to promote entrepreneurship in City Academies. I have a farm in Scotland, a dog and a grandson.

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None

Appointment by Deanery from March 2021 to March 2025
Member of Teaching and Learning Committee

Ben graduated from Cardiff University with a BA in History before deciding to specialise in education. He attended Liverpool Hope university to complete his PGCE in primary education. Learning quickly and enjoying being in the classroom Ben took on teaching posts in Manchester where he began undertaking leadership roles in Music and History. Ben re-wrote curriculums for these two areas and focused on pupil progress and quality of teaching. A change of circumstances saw Ben move to London where he is now curriculum development lead at Thomas’s Academy. Ben has a wide range of experience across the primary sector and enjoys evaluating the effectiveness of teaching, curriculum content and ensure pupils are exposed to high quality primary education.

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None

Appointment by St Cuthbert PCC from September 2022 to September 2026

Resources and Risk Committee Member

Teaching and Learning Committee Member

Carla Muñoz Slaughter is a PCC governor and is also currently a trustee of the London Diocesan Board of Schools.  She received a first degree at Harvard University, before attending Harvard Law School and then completing a Masters in Law degree at the University of Cambridge. Before entering academic life, she was admitted to the New York State Bar and worked as a corporate lawyer.  After leaving practice, she lectured in law and then became adjunct professor of law at the University of Notre Dame’s London Law Programme.  She is the author of Tuppence in the Bank, along with various academic publications.

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None

Head Teacher, ex-officio Governor

The Head Teacher attends all Full Governing Body meetings and is a member of all Committees. 

Gill qualified with a Bachelor of Education (HDE, South Africa) and spent the first years of her career teaching in South Africa. Alongside her teaching in primary schools in Cape Town, she spent some months working as a volunteer, supporting boys in an orphanage in the Langa Township, Cape Town. Shortly after moving to London, she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree (UNISA). She has also had the opportunity to complete some studies with Central St Martin’s Art School (UAL) London.

Before joining St Cuthbert’s in September 2013 as Deputy Head Teacher, Gill taught at Christ Church CE School, Chelsea. In September 2014 she stepped up to the Acting Head Teacher role. In February 2016 she was appointed Head Teacher.   Her hobbies include music, art, outdoor sports and hiking. 

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None

Elected Parent Governor from July 2019 to July 2023

Resources and Risk Committee Member

Teaching and Learning Committee Member

Khalid graduated in 1999 from the French University of Technology with a diploma in logistic and industrial system engineering. An experienced executive with 20 years of leadership in international business, he is currently director at Logiq group, a consulting firm specialised in SAP SCM solutions. In addition to his role as a governor, Khalid teaches students in a MSc program in Paris. For 10 years, he was deputy chair of a French charity which supports pupils with their after-school homework. Since 2005, he has been a non-executive governor of a Zambian orphanage (Africa) in charge of fundraising. He lives in London and works all around Europe, is married and has 3 children.

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None

Appointment by Deanery from October 2018 to October 2022

Chair of Teaching and Learning Committee

​Head Teacher Performance Management governor

After graduating from Bristol University with a Joint Honours B.A. degree in French and German , I completed my Postgraduate Certificate of Education at Goldsmiths’ College (University of London).   This launched me into a lifelong career in secondary education, first as a French and German teacher in two Hertfordshire schools, before moving to North West London where I became a Head of Modern Languages in what was to become one of the first six Language Colleges under the Specialist Schools Initiative. Finally, I was appointed to a Deputy Headship in a boys’ secondary school in the London Borough of Camden with a vast range of responsibilities, from pastoral and disciplinary to leadership of Teaching, Learning and Staff Professional Development.  I retired in 2015 but have maintained my passion for education which has led me to volunteer as a governor in two schools.

I am a practising Anglican and longstanding member of the Parish Council of Christchurch with St. Laurence, Brondesbury, NW6.

I am married with one grown-up son.

Retirement has allowed me time for my many interests and hobbies :  foreign travel, learning Spanish, reading ,theatre and cinema, walking , swimming, yoga and Pilates.       

Relevant business and other interests: none

Governor in education elsewhere? Chair of Governors at Christchurch C of E Primary School, Brondesbury

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: none

Co-opted by Governing Body from October 2022 to October 2026

Resources and Risk Committee member

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None

Appointment by LDBS from September 2019 to September 2023

Resources and Risk Committee member

Julie obtained a BEd (Hons) at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, and later studied for her MA in Educational and Professional Development at the University of East Anglia. She has extensive management experience in overseeing a range of Degree, Vocational and ‘A’ level courses, as well as extensive teaching experience with children and adults of all ages. Throughout her career, she has led on a range of community projects and a wider strategic agenda and has been Chair of Starting Points (a county-wide anti-racist group) and Trustee of a Community Learning Group where she planned events and engaged in public speaking. She is a supporter of, and has a personal interest in, the Arts. She was actively involved with partnership work (most notably with Sir Matthew Bourne) in the Creative and Performing Arts as part of her previous role as Head of Faculty at Sir George Monoux College, London. Julie more recently worked full-time as a Deputy Director, Partnership and Skills, at City and Islington College, London.

At present, in addition to working on a Storytelling project with three London schools and teaching on a supply basis, Julie has been actively involved as Coordinator and Convenor for the United Nations (UNITAR)-endorsed Institute for Responsible Leadership. 

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None

Appointment by St Cuthbert PCC from March 2019 to March 2023

Teaching and Learning Committee member

Resources and Risk Commitee member

Appointed by St Cuthbert PCC March 2019

Carolyn graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in Chemistry.  She moved to London and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PwC).  After qualifying she remained at the firm for several years as a manager.
She moved to Earl’s Court in 1993 and has been treasurer of St Mary The Boltons church since 1997.  She acts as trustee, treasurer and secretary for The Friends of Brompton Cemetery.  She is also a trustee of a small new charity which promotes literacy for young readers; this is called Learn To Love To Read and is so far based mainly in Wandsworth.
St Mary’s started a volunteer reading team at St Cuthbert with St Matthias School in 2007 and Carolyn and her husband have been volunteers from the beginning, reading mostly with Year 2.  

Relevant business and other interests: None

Governor in education elsewhere? No

Relationships with school staff inc spouse/ partner/relatives: None