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Council for AT-Risk Academics

Post-graduate level higher education

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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Previous officers 70

  1. Ben Webster 2024-2026 Director View profile
  2. Professor Colin Barr Grant 2018-2023 Director View profile
  3. Professor John Joseph Naughton 2016-2019 Director View profile
  4. Professor Penelope Helen Gardner-Chloros 2016-2022 Director View profile
  5. Tabitha Nice 2016-2021 Director View profile
  6. Lilia Jolibois 2014-2023 Director View profile
  7. Nigel Fredrick Thomas Hugh Petrie 2014-2022 Director View profile
  8. Professor Ian Andrew Goldin 2012-2014 Director View profile
  9. Jonathan Mark Hammond 2012-2023 Director View profile
  10. Stephan Roman 2012-2021 Director View profile
  11. Mary Elizabeth Manning 2009-2015 Director View profile
  12. Professor Hamid Ghodse 2009-2013 Director View profile
  13. Sir Martin Best Harris 2009-2012 Director View profile
  14. Dr Nicholas Sagovsky 2009-2018 Director View profile
  15. Professor Margot Light 2008-2016 Director View profile
  16. Professor Philip Begg 2007-2015 Director View profile
  17. Anne Mary Lonsdale 2007-2022 Director View profile
  18. Professor Michael Worton 2007-2023 Director View profile
  19. Baroness Onora Sylvia O'Neill 2007-2012 Director View profile
  20. Ucko, Peter John, Emeritus Professor 2006-2007 Director View profile
  21. Professor Alan John Mccarthy 2006-2024 Director View profile
  22. David Granger Ure 2006-2023 Director View profile
  23. Dr Frances Diana Dow 2004-2016 Director View profile
  24. Prof Sir Robert David Hugh Boyd 2004-2017 Director View profile
  25. Dr Paul Julian Weindling 2003-2025 Director View profile
  26. Sir Deian Rhys Hopkin 2003-2022 Director View profile
  27. Mark Wellby 2003-2012 Director View profile
  28. Professor Robin William Baker 2003-2013 Director View profile
  29. Dr Josephine Dianne Beall 2002-2009 Director View profile
  30. Dr Carole Hillenbrand 2002-2009 Director View profile
  31. Dr Jocelyn Alexander 2002-2009 Director View profile
  32. Sir John Michael Ashworth 2002-2012 Director View profile
  33. Dr Joachim Max Goldstrom 2000-2002 Director View profile
  34. Dr John Bannister Eastwood 1999-2008 Director View profile
  35. Desai, Jagdishchandra, Lord Meghnad 1998-2006 Director View profile
  36. Dr Michael Gabriel Brophy 1998-2013 Director View profile
  37. Alan David John Phillips 1998-2007 Director View profile
  38. Stephen James Cox 1997-2011 Director View profile
  39. Peter Wilfred Henry Brown 1996-2011 Director View profile
  40. Terence Garrett 1994-2003 Director View profile
  41. Professor Robert Burton Pynsent 1994-2016 Director View profile
  42. Prof Kenneth James King 1994-2007 Director View profile
  43. Alison Frawles Girdwood 1994-1996 Director View profile
  44. Joanna Mary Womack 1993-2000 Director View profile
  45. Alan Edward Angell 2001 Director View profile
  46. Professor Walter Kurt Hayman 2004 Director View profile
  47. Dr Esther Simpson 1996 Director View profile
  48. Michael David Yudkin 2013 Director View profile
  49. Professor Shula Marks 2012 Director View profile
  50. Professor David Leo Pyle 2008 Director View profile
  51. Professor Margaret Mary Gowing 1997 Director View profile
  52. Jane Freeland 1994 Director View profile
  53. Lord Eric Ashby 1992 Director View profile
  54. Professor Albert Neuberger 1996 Director View profile
  55. Professor Wilhelm Sigmund Feldberg 1993 Director View profile
  56. Professor Jacques Alexandre Berthoud 2004 Director View profile
  57. Professor Patricia Hannah Clarke 1999 Director View profile
  58. Professor Lewis Richard Benjamin Elton 2011 Director View profile
  59. Dr Peter Tolman Warren 2002 Director View profile
  60. Raymond Hoffenberg 2001 Director View profile
  61. Professor Paul Martin Andrew Broda 2017 Director View profile
  62. Dr John Rosselli 1994 Director View profile
  63. Kenneth Polack 1995 Director View profile
  64. Sir Isaiah Berlin 1997 Director View profile
  65. Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny 1993 Director View profile
  66. Dr Ronald William John Keay 1998 Director View profile
  67. Anthony Norman Smith De Reuck 2001 Director View profile
  68. Stephen John Wordsworth 2012-2025 Secretary View profile
  69. John Richard Akker 1999-2012 Secretary View profile
  70. Helen Elizabeth Fraser 1991-1999 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Post-graduate level higher education
Incorporated
10/11/1959
Registered office
London
Also a registered charity
Council for AT-Risk Academics
Previous names
Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (until 17/03/2014)

Grants received

3 grants · £96,361 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £57,367
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £38,994 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £57,3672022-12-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £28,6842022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £10,3102020-07-01
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.

10 directors on the board

4.4y median 3.6y
average tenure
9.6y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (2)

Portfolio (8)

Left in the last 12 months

  • Ben Webster Director · appointed 2024 · resigned 2026

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.

Education 7Business services 1Construction 1Manufacturing 1Professional services 1Property 1Tech and media 1

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.

Sources

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

Record details
Company number
00641687
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Accounts next due
30/09/2027
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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