Staff

Helen sets strategy and implements Trust policy in consultation with the Trustees.  She builds the Trust’s value to students and to the University, working with a range of international and local partners.

A graduate of the University of Oxford, Helen began her career in the UK civil service working on a range of policy areas with an emphasis on European and international engagement.  She was Labour and Social Affairs Attaché at the British Embassy in Paris, and also held posts at the European Commission on secondment.  Resident in Canada for seven years immediately prior to joining the Trust in July 2013, she was Executive Director International and Special Advisor to the President at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Helen is a Fellow of Clare Hall.

Sue is head of the student support team, and is responsible for the administration of the Trust’s many scholarship programmes.  Formerly the Trust’s acting Administrator and Scholarships Secretary (1987-2008), Sue became Deputy Director in August 2008. 

Working with funding partners worldwide, Sue oversees the award of some 500 scholarships each year and has extensive knowledge of the admissions process to the University of Cambridge, its Colleges and Departments.

Sue’s previous employment included working for the University of Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies, which helped to arrange summer schools for international students, and for the National Health Service.