British Institute of Persian Studies(the)
Company 00740813 Active
Registered charity: The British Institute of Persian Studies
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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.
12
directors on the board
6.4y median 4.6y
average tenure
20.5y
longest tenure
5
directors past 6 years
8 vs 3 portfolio
first-time directors
3
also govern a charity
4
left in the last 12 months
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Professional services 3Education 2Business services 1Health and social care 1Other services 1
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Company details
| Number | 00740813 |
| Status | Active |
| Type | PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) |
| Incorporated | 14/11/1962 |
| Address | 10 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON, SW1Y 5AH |
| Accounts next due | 31/12/2026 |
| Accounts last made up | 31/03/2025 |
Industry (SIC)
58141 - Publishing of learned journals85520 - Cultural education94990 - Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c.
Ownership - persons with significant control (3)
- Professor Ali Massoud Ansari British
significant influence or control - Professor Ali Massoud Ansari ceased 2017 British
significant influence or control as trust - Professor Charles Peter Melville ceased 2023 British
significant influence or control
Officers (76)
- Akbarnia, Ladan, Prof Director · appointed 2025
- Gleave, Robert Martin, Prof Director · appointed 2025
- Pesaran, Evaleila, Dr Director · appointed 2024
- Errichiello, Mariano, Dr Director · appointed 2024
- Talajooy, Saeedreza, Dr Director · appointed 2023
- Holliday, Shabnam, Dr Director · appointed 2022
- Hossein Hamedani Director · appointed 2021
- Stewart, Sarah Rosemary Anne, Dr Director · appointed 2018
- Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh, Dr Director · appointed 2018
- Petrie, Cameron Andrew, Dr Director · appointed 2018
- David Hugh Gye Director · appointed 2009
- Ansari, Ali Massoud, Professor Director · appointed 2005
Show 64 former officers
- Ball, Warwick, Dr Director · appointed 2025 · resigned 2025
- Allen, Lindsay, Dr Director · appointed 2021 · resigned 2024
- Newman, Andrew, Professor Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2025
- Mcclary, Richard Piran, Dr Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2023
- Azad, Arezou, Dr Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2025
- Peacock, Andrew Charles Spencer, Professor Director · appointed 2018 · resigned 2023
- Narguess Farzad Director · appointed 2017 · resigned 2023
- Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd John, Professor Director · appointed 2017 · resigned 2018
- Hintze, Almut, Professor Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2019
- Williams, Alan Vincent, Professor Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2023
- Axworthy, Michael George Andrew, Dr Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2019
- Scarce, Jennifer Mary, Dr Director · appointed 2015 · resigned 2018
- Dominic Parviz Brookshaw Director · appointed 2014 · resigned 2017
- Akbarnia, Ladan, Dr Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2016
- Babaie, Sussan, Dr Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2015
- Alvandi, Roham, Dr Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2025
- Oliver Bast Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2018
- Douglas Nelson Kinnear Secretary · appointed 2012 · resigned 2019
- Gibson, Melanie Jane, Dr Director · appointed 2012 · resigned 2018
- Curtis, John Edward, Dr Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2018
- Brookshaw, Dominic, Dr Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2011
- Sauer, Eberhard Wilfram, Dr Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2015
- John Serjeant Ingham Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2013
- Martin, Vanessa Ann, Professor Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2010
- Cameron Andrew Petrie Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2013
- Herzig, Edmund Martin, Professor Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2013
- Coningham, Robin Andrew Evelyn, Professor Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2009
- Ridgeon, Lloyd, Dr Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2021
- Alexander Paul A'Court Bergne Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2006
- Daftary, Farhad, Doctor Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2007
- Treadwell, William Luke, Dr Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2007
- Boardman, John, Professor Sir Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2003
- Canby, Sheila, Doctor Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2009
- Gleave, Robert Martin, Dr Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 2016
- Barrington, Nicholas John, Sir Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 2001
- Melville, Charles Peter, Dr Secretary · appointed 1996 · resigned 2023
- Peter Augustus Knapton Secretary · appointed 1994 · resigned 2009
- Luft, Johann Paul, Professor Doctor Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 2005
- John Royston Grundon Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 1996
- Peter John Whittaker Taylor Director · appointed 1993 · resigned 1994
- John Cooper Director · appointed 1992 · resigned 1996
- Hillenbrand, Robert, Professor Director · appointed 1992 · resigned 2010
- Curtis, Vesta, Dr Secretary · appointed 1992 · resigned 1998
- Morgan, David Orrin, Doctor Director · appointed 1992 · resigned 1996
- Janet Elisabeth Aidin Director · appointed 1988 · resigned 1996
- Desmond Edward St Aubyn Harney Director · resigned 2000
- John Cecil Cloake Director · resigned 1995
- Sheikholeslami, Ali Reza, Professor Director · resigned 1996
- Christopher John Spencer Rundle Director · resigned 2003
- Gershevitch, Ilya, Dr Director · resigned 1992
- John Gilbert Hanson Director · resigned 1992
- Moorey, Peter Roger Stuart, Dr Director · resigned 1993
- Bosworth, Clifford Edmund, Professor Director · resigned 2003
- Mclachlan, Keith Stanley, Professor Director · resigned 1999
- Allan, James Wilson, Professor Director · resigned 2014
- Ferrier, Ronald Whitaker, Dr Director · resigned 1996
- Gurney, John David, Dr Director · resigned 1996
- Charles Allen Burney Director · resigned 1996
- Alexander Hargreaves Morton Director · resigned 1996
- Rogers, John Michael, Professor Director · resigned 1996
- Lambton, Ann Katherine Swynford, Professor Director · resigned 1996
- Hill, Clare Letitia, Dr Director · resigned 1992
- Herrmann, Georgina, Dr Director · resigned 1993
- John Sidney Phillips Director · resigned 1994
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