Trustees
The Great Generation Trustees are a group of individuals brought together to steer and provide guidance to the development of our programmes. Their knowledge and humanitarian involvement will ensure The Great Generation achieves it aims, missions and objectives.
Adam Chamberlain
Adam Chamberlain has spent the last 15 years working in the fixed income departments of two major City institutions, primarily managing teams within the bond trading group. He has just returned to the UK after 3 years in New York where he helped build the presence and profile of one of the UK’s premier investment banks. Adam gained a degree in Banking & International Finance from City University Business School.
Outside banking he has been involved extensively over the last five years in projects involving refugees and asylum seekers. Working closely with the Home Office and local councils he has been able to facilitate safe, clean and secure accommodation for those that need it most. This has evolved into sourcing housing for children with special needs who require constant nursing or supervision. Adam’s spare time is filled with a young family, and after a year off travelling in 2001 he has rekindled the desire to explore parts of the world as yet unspoilt.
Dianne Cornes
Dianne Cornes has spent most of her professional career working in the fixed income markets. Over the past 15 years she has worked on the trading floors of four leading City institutions in derivative and capital market sales, and now heads a team of 30 for a major UK bank. Dianne gained a degree in mathematics from Imperial College and qualified as a Chartered Accountant, after which she spent five months in Accra, Ghana, on a World Bank project.
External roles include two years as governor of a state school in London where she was closely involved in financing and budgetary matters. She has travelled extensively, including Thailand, Indonesia, Jordan, Syria, Iran, Uzbekistan and Malawi. Hobbies include horse riding and opera.
Henry Knowles
Henry Knowles is a solicitor who trained at, and has worked for, a City law firm for over 10 years, specialising in mergers & acquisitions. During that time he spent a year and a half working in Tokyo, including a secondment to the legal department of a Japanese client. Outside law he has run a small design company and undertakes some business consultancy services for small and start-up companies.He read Social and Political Science at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has travelled extensively, much of it in South East Asia - having visited India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Nepal on varying occasions, often to pursue his favoured pastime of photography. He has also taught English to Vietnamese boat people in a closed refugee camp in Hong Kong.
Jonathan Salmon
Jonathan Salmon has been a consultant physician in Oxford for the past eight years, specialising in intensive care and acute general medicine. He trained at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and The Middlesex Hospital, London then spent 15 years as a physician in the Army. He served in Northern Ireland, Hong Kong, Nepal and Bosnia and took part in caving expeditions to Peru and Papua New Guinea.For his last three years in the Army he was director of intensive care at the Royal Hospital Haslar and consultant physician in various field hospitals. He has extensive experience of planning and providing medical support in the field whether integral to well-equipped, military operations or as part of lightly equipped expeditions in very remote areas. Hobbies include walking and an increasingly armchair interest in caving and climbing.
