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Official record Companies House · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 93

  1. Dr Arif Mohiuddin Ahmed 2021-2022 Director View profile
  2. Dr Fiona Ellis 2019-2024 Director View profile
  3. Dr Matthew Kieran 2019-2021 Director View profile
  4. Dr Edward Harcourt 2019-2022 Director View profile
  5. Dr Yasemin Jane Erden 2019-2020 Director View profile
  6. Professor Katherine Hawley 2016-2019 Director View profile
  7. Professor Thomas Leonard Montague Pink 2016-2021 Director View profile
  8. Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza 2016-2023 Director View profile
  9. Professor John Haldane 2010-2025 Director View profile
  10. Dr Alan Millar 2009-2016 Director View profile
  11. Dr Helen Beebee 2009-2016 Director View profile
  12. Prof Stephen Clark 2009-2017 Director View profile
  13. Dr Alexander Bird 2009-2019 Director View profile
  14. Prof Robin Le Poidevin 2009-2013 Director View profile
  15. Dr Miranda Fricker 2009-2013 Director View profile
  16. Prof Paul Coates 2009-2019 Director View profile
  17. Professor Ted Honderich 2009-2018 Director View profile
  18. Professor David Papineau 2007-2013 Director View profile
  19. John Hyman 2007-2009 Director View profile
  20. Professor Philip Stratton Lake 2007-2009 Director View profile
  21. Dr Carolyn Susan Price 2007-2009 Director View profile
  22. Dr Roger Stephen Crisp 2007-2009 Director View profile
  23. Professor Adrian William Moore 2007-2009 Director View profile
  24. Dr Catherine Joanna Osborne 2007-2009 Director View profile
  25. Peter Raymond Cave 2006-2009 Director View profile
  26. Professor David Edward Cooper 2006-2009 Director View profile
  27. Professor Susan Lesley Mendus 2006-2009 Director View profile
  28. Professor Robin Attfield 2006-2009 Director View profile
  29. Stephen Richard Patriarca 2004-2009 Director View profile
  30. Dr Barry Crawford Smith 2000-2018 Director View profile
  31. Kevin Magill 2000-2018 Director View profile
  32. Matravers, Derek Cameron, Doctor 2000-2010 Director View profile
  33. Paul Jonathan Pitt Noordhof 2000-2016 Director View profile
  34. Horace Romano Harre 1993-2009 Director View profile
  35. John Randolph Lucas 1993-2009 Director View profile
  36. Professor Anthony Palmer 1993-2009 Director View profile
  37. Professor Frank Cioffi 1993-2009 Director View profile
  38. Professor Leon Pompa 1993-2006 Director View profile
  39. Professor David Holdcroft 1993-1998 Director View profile
  40. Professor William Edward Lyons 1993-2009 Director View profile
  41. Professor Ilham Dilman 1993-2005 Director View profile
  42. Patrick Thomas Corrie Lewin 1993-2009 Director View profile
  43. Dr Ardon James Lyon 1993-2009 Director View profile
  44. Prof Roger Hugh Trigg 1991-2009 Director View profile
  45. George Macdonald Ross 2009 Director View profile
  46. Professor Timothy Miles 2009 Director View profile
  47. Professor Martin Hollis 1998 Director View profile
  48. Anthony Meredith Lord Quinton 2009 Director View profile
  49. Dr Michael Alexander Stewart 2006 Director View profile
  50. Professor George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson 2005 Director View profile
  51. Sir Karl Popper 1994 Director View profile
  52. Professor David Walter Hamlyn 2009 Director View profile
  53. Ronald Beardsmore 1997 Director View profile
  54. Professor Godfrey Norman Agmondisham 2006 Director View profile
  55. Alan Claude Robin Goldsmid Montefiore 2000 Director View profile
  56. Professor Hywell David Lewis 1992 Director View profile
  57. Dr Nicholas Frederick Bunnin 2016 Director View profile
  58. Professor Anthony O'Hear 1998 Director View profile
  59. Professor Roy Fraser Holland 2009 Director View profile
  60. Brenda Almond 2015 Director View profile
  61. Professor Daniel John Oconnor 1998 Director View profile
  62. Professor Richard Sorabji 2009 Director View profile
  63. Professor Peter Strawson 2006 Director View profile
  64. Dr Oswald Hanfling 2006 Director View profile
  65. Professor Anthony Richards Manser 1995 Director View profile
  66. Professor Keith Ward 2009 Director View profile
  67. Professor Margaret Ann Boden 2009 Director View profile
  68. Ruby Lilian Meager 1992 Director View profile
  69. Alexander Alfred Kassman 1998 Director View profile
  70. Mary Midgley 2009 Director View profile
  71. Dr Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes 1998 Director View profile
  72. Professor David Hugh Mellor 2009 Director View profile
  73. Dr Paul Foulkes 2009 Director View profile
  74. Dr David Adrian Lloyd Thomas 2009 Director View profile
  75. Martin Michael Warner 2009 Director View profile
  76. Joan Marguerite Joyce 2005 Director View profile
  77. Dr Michael Keith Tanner 2009 Director View profile
  78. Professor John David Gemmill Evans 2009 Director View profile
  79. Terence Michael Okeeffe 2009 Director View profile
  80. Professor Ondra Oneill 2009 Director View profile
  81. Professor Ronald Field Atkinson 1998 Director View profile
  82. Susan Margaret Butter 1998 Director View profile
  83. Kenneth Minogue 2007 Director View profile
  84. Professor Bernard Arthur Owen Williams 2006 Director View profile
  85. Prof Antony Flew 2009 Director View profile
  86. Professor Jonathan Harrison 2009 Director View profile
  87. Professor Walter Bryce Gallie 2007 Director View profile
  88. Halsbury, Anthony, Earl 2000 Director View profile
  89. Dr Samuel Guttenplan 2009 Director View profile
  90. Professor Stuart Campbell Brown 2009 Director View profile
  91. George Anthony Philip 2022-2022 Secretary View profile
  92. James Garvey 2001-2022 Secretary View profile
  93. Ingrid Mary Purkiss 2001 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

Incorporated
06/04/1925
Also a registered charity
The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

11 directors on the board

5.4y median 5.6y
average tenure
9.6y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

0
left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Tech and media 2

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Gaps to watch

  • No director brings board experience from anywhere else
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: a director with board experience elsewhere; directors from a wider range of sectors.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00205110
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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