Our Board

Our trustees have extensive experience in the health and not-for-profit sector, and jointly supervise the activities of the Trinity Challenge.

Our Convenor
Dame Sally Davies

Dame Sally Davies is the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University and the first woman to hold the post. She was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in 2019.

Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government from 2010-2019. She is a leading figure in global health, having served as a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board 2014-2016, and as co-convener of the United Nations Inter-Agency Co-ordination Group (IACG) on AMR, reporting in 2019. In November 2020, Dame Sally was announced as an inaugural member of the new UN Global Leaders Group on AMR, serving alongside Heads of State, Ministers, and prominent figures from around the world to advocate for action on AMR.

In the 2020 New Year Honours, Dame Sally became the second woman to be appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research, having received her DBE in 2009. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine, USA in 2015.

Steve Davis

Steve Davis currently serves as a Senior Advisor and interim Director of Philanthropic Partnerships for the Gates Foundation, as a Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and Global Health Faculty Fellow, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Steve has deep experience, including numerous boards and advisory groups, focused on the intersection of social impact, business, innovation, and philanthropy. He currently serves as co-chair of the G7 Triple I Initiative to increase impact investment in global health and as chair of the Advisory Board of the Brookings/CSIS initiative on Advancing US-China Collaboration. He recently served as co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group, as a Distinguished Fellow for the World Economic Forum and as a senior advisor for both McKinsey & Company and the Rockefeller Foundation. Steve is the former President & CEO of PATH, a leading global health innovation organization; former Director of Social Innovation at McKinsey; former CEO of Corbis, a digital media pioneer; and as an attorney with K&L Gates. With degrees from Princeton University, University of Washington, and Columbia Law School, Steve is the author of Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism (Wiley 2020). He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.

Sally Spensley

Sally qualified as a Chartered Accountant and went on to pursue a career as a Finance Director, primarily in the advertising and marketing services sector. From 2008 to 2019 she was Chief Financial Officer for the EMEA region for J Walter Thompson, one of WPP’s major networks. In this role she served on several boards around Europe and was responsible for all financial, legal and HR matters.

Sally is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. For 5 years she was a Trustee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and is now a Governor of Birkbeck, University of London. Sally lives with her family in London.

David Secher

Dr David Secher is an independent consultant in the areas of research commercialisation, intellectual property and technology transfer, in the UK and internationally. He is based in Cambridge University, where he is a Life Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. He has served as an interim Bursar of Trinity and Corpus Christi Colleges, and he is a Governor of Coventry University. In 2002, together with Lita Nelsen of MIT, he founded “Praxis” (now “Knowledge Exchange UK”), the leading UK knowledge exchange organisation. He served as chairman or as a director until 2014 and is now Patron.

For his contributions to “creating environments that favour enterprise, specialising in the practical aspects of commercialising the results of academic research”, he received a lifetime Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2007.

Ian Stanley

Ian spent his professional career based in London, in the City, at international law firm Allen Overy where, as a corporate partner, he advised corporations, banks and governments on cross border transactions. He has experience, in particular, of governance issues, risk analysis and managing international teams so that they work effectively.
In addition, he is vice chair of the trustees of Rambert School, a leading dance conservatoire which trains contemporary dancers. He also coaches university students from under-privileged backgrounds to help prepare them for a legal career.