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.
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. From 2020 to 2026, she was a member of the 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.
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.
