A full-time working member of the Royal Family, The Duchess of Edinburgh splits her time between her work in support of The King and visits to a large number of charities and organisations. She has a wide range of interests which include supporting children and young people in need of additional care, supporting people with disabilities, the elimination of avoidable blindness and championing the sight loss community, agriculture, fashion and gender equality.
Much of the day-to-day working life of The Duchess is taken up with her roles as Patron of over 70 charities and organisations. Each year, Her Royal Highness undertakes hundreds of visits to schools, hospitals, military bases and charity headquarters in order to learn more about their work, and to highlight it to the wider world.
Drawn from the varied worlds of Formula 1, industry, commerce, the law and philanthropy, our trustees guide Race Against Dementia aggressively to achieve our goals.
Three-time F1 World Champion, Sir Jackie continues an active role in the sport as a Global Ambassador for Heineken and a Rolex Testimonee of over 50 years.
Since the diagnosis of his wife, Helen, with frontotemporal dementia, Sir Jackie has founded and devoted his efforts to Race Against Dementia.
A former partner for an international grouping of professional firms, specialising in financial and taxation advice. Chris is a consultant and manages a broad based client portfolio encompassing retail, trading and investment companies, professional partnerships and not-for-profit entities.
An erstwhile Vice President of the illustrious IMG and now running her own business, Linda Cooper has a wealth of experience in the organisation of high level international fundraising events.
After a career in the City of London as a stockbroker, David Mayhew now chairs a number of companies. From 2012 until 2022 he was the Chairman of Alzheimer’s Research UK and is currently its Vice President.
Senior Partner and Global Head of Culture and Change at Korn Ferry. Khoi is a Non Executive Director of the Jamie Oliver Group and Lead Advisor at Astanor, an impact venture capital fund.
“It is an honour to be involved in such an innovative approach to funding and enabling a purposeful high performance culture, to drive rapid breakthroughs in dementia research”.
Professor Scheltens is Professor of Neurology at the Alzheimer Center, Amsterdam as well as managing partner of the LSP Dementia Fund. He is devoted to finding better therapies for dementia and as such is involved in clinical and biomarker research and venture funding of development of therapies in the broadest sense. Professor Scheltens is also the current Chair of the World Dementia Council.
An expert in regenerative neurology, Professor Siddharthan Chandran bridges the gap between clinic and the lab. He is Director of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Neuroscience, the Euan MacDonald Centre and the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic in Edinburgh and is a Group Leader in the UK Dementia Research Institute (DRI).
A business psychologist specialising in leadership development and executive coaching, Penny works with numerous organisations to help elevate performance and create transformational change.
Penny has worked with Race Against Dementia since 2018.
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