Governors

The Trustees are the Governors of both Stonyhurst College and St Mary’s Hall and bring a wealth of experience to the Board from their professional working lives which encompass education, safeguarding, accountancy, investments, chaplaincy, law and hospitality. As unpaid volunteers, they give of their time freely to assist in many areas of school life, but their prime responsibility is to determine the strategy and direction for Stonyhurst. The Board meets twice per term.

The Trustees conduct the governance of the schools through a series of committees which meet at least once per term: Education, Finance and General Purposes, Safeguarding and Wellbeing, Libraries, Archives and Collections, Nominations and Governance, External Affairs, and International.

Chair of Governors

Christine Keunen

Christine Keunen

Christine joined the Governing Body in 2017. She became Chair of Governors in September 2024, having been Deputy Chair from September 2021. She is a member of the following committees: Finance and General Purposes; Nominations and Governance; External Affairs; Libraries, Archives and Collections; International and Remuneration.

After studying History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Christine qualified as a solicitor. In 1992, she co-founded Moorhead James, a commercial law firm in the City of London, where she became joint managing partner in 2008. In 2015, she joined Hewitsons LLP as a partner and head of the London office, where she worked with colleagues in the sport, education and charity sectors. She retired from Hewitsons in 2019 to focus on her mediation practice. She remains a solicitor (non-practising) and is an accredited commercial mediator.

Christine has held a number of non-executive positions and is currently a Director of the Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools (AGBIS).

Christine’s husband Victor and their 2 children all attended Stonyhurst College.

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Deputy Chair of Governors

Gerry Lagerberg

Gerry Lagerberg

Gerry Lagerberg joined the Governing Body in 2018 and sits on the Education Committee , Libraries, Archives and Collections Committee, International Committee, Nominations and Governance Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

Gerry read Law at Birmingham University and was called to the Bar in 1983. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1986 and spent 34 years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers ("PwC"). He specialised in forensic accounting and financial investigations and testified as an expert witness in arbitration proceedings in London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, New York, Toronto and Dubai. He served in various governance roles at PwC, chairing the Supervisory Board of PwC's UK firm and was a member of the Board of PwC in the Middle East and the PwC Global Board.

Gerry is an alumnus of Stonyhurst and is the Treasurer of the Stonyhurst Association.

Other Governors

Dr Aileen Brady

Dr Aileen Brady joined the Governing Body in 2021 and is a member of the Education Committee.

Aileen read Parasitology at the University of Glasgow and went on to undertake a Masters in Aquatic Pathology at Stirling University as part of her NERC CASE PhD Studentship, working jointly with the University of Stirling and the Natural History Museum, London. Aileen then carried out post-doctoral research work prior to entering the teaching profession.

On qualifying, Aileen became a Primary specialist teacher of Science in 1994 at St Aloysius’ College, a Jesuit School based in Glasgow, and held various leadership roles until she was appointed Head of Junior School from 2007-2019. She was appointed Associate Assessor with HMIE in 2015. Aileen is now Head of St Joseph’s Primary School in Falkirk and is a Quality Associate with Falkirk Council.

Joanne Dodd

Joanne Dodd joined the Governing Body in 2019 following two years as a co-opted member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee.

Joanne read geography at Durham University following which she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1999 working at Grant Thornton and as a manager at Ernst & Young specialising in Corporate Restructuring and Corporate Finance. Since 2008 Joanne has been a director of Crabtree Capital Limited, a company advising and investing in businesses.

Joanne is a Trustee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and also sits on the School’s Finance and Investment Committee.

Joanne and her husband Andrew have two children both of whom are current pupils at Stonyhurst.

Fr Roger Dawson SJ

Fr Roger Dawson SJ joined the Governing Body in 2018 and sits on the Nominations Committee.

Fr Roger is Superior of the Jesuits in Scotland. He has been a Jesuit since 1996 and in that time has worked at Wimbledon College in the Chaplaincy and teaching psychology and RS, was Assistant Chaplain to the University of Oxford for three years and was Director of St Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre in North Wales.

Fr Roger has also worked on the Ignatian formation of teachers with the Jesuit Institute and edited Thinking Faith, the Jesuit on-line journal. During his Jesuit training he has studied in London, Paris and the United States and he holds degrees in philosophy, theology and psychology. He is trained as a clinical psychologist.

Prior to joining the Jesuits Fr Roger was an infantry officer in the British Army for nine years and was an NHS psychologist for six years.

Simon Glassbrook

Simon Glassbrook joined the Governing Body in 2017. He is Chair of the External Affairs Committee and is a member of both the Finance and General Purposes Committee and the Investment Committee. Simon spent 31 years as a practicing Independent Financial Advisor (IFA). He has been involved in numerous start-up and private equity ventures, across a broad range of sectors, from Property, Broadband, Hotels, to Online Marketing.

Simon and his wife Carolyn have two children, both of whom are current pupils at Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall. Simon and Carolyn were the founding supports of the Glassbrook Tennis Dome at Stonyhurst.

Sarah Young

Sarah Young works full time for the Jesuits in Britain. She is a spiritual director and a member of the Jesuit Institute team. Sarah was Lay Chaplain at Stonyhurst for 11 years from 2006-2017.

Sarah was Head of Religious Education at Cardinal Allen Catholic High School, Fleetwood. She left teaching to be a Lay Missionary with the Columban Missionary Society in Mindanao in the Philippines and coordinated the programme in the UK on return from overseas.

Sarah is also a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and continues to practice voluntarily through the North Lancashire Counselling Service.

Andrew Noyons

Andrew Noyons joined the Governing Body in September 2023 and sits on the Finance and General Purposes Committee.

Andrew is a Partner at Hambro Perks, a London based international investment firm, and manages its distribution and capital raising team and activities. Prior to Hambro Perks, Andrew was in Equity Capital Markets at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for the distribution of multiple European initial public offerings including the landmark Siemens Healthineers transaction. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Andrew was in the institutional equities division at Morgan Stanley.

Before joining financial services, Andrew was a Captain in the British Army completing tours of Bosnia and Afghanistan with the Welsh Guards and the Parachute Regiment before serving as Equerry to HRH The Prince of Wales.

Andrew is a graduate of Durham University with a degree in Modern History, and is also an alumnus of Stonyhurst.

Helen McCormick

Helen McCormick joined the Governing Body in 2023 and sits in the Safeguarding and Wellbeing Committee.

Helen qualified to teach in 1993 and achieved National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) accreditation from the University of Newcastle in 2014. She was a senior leader for eleven years, four of which were as a Headteacher.

In 2019, she joined the British Red Cross to lead the development and implementation of their safeguarding policy and framework in the UK and internationally, whilst developing and nurturing the safeguarding culture across the organisation.

Mark Hurst

An alumnus of Stonyhurst, Mark Hurst joined the governing body in 2024. He is a member of the Finance and General Purpose Committee and has been advising clients in Commercial Property for over 35 years, specialising in Commercial Property Management. He is also a Partner in the Commercial Property Consultancy, HDAK.

Mark and his wife Alison have two children, whom both attended Stonyhurst.

Stephen Morris

Stephen joined the Board in September 2024, having previously served as a co-opted specialist to the Education Committee.

He studied Theology at Hull University, qualifying as a secondary school teacher and working in both state and independent sectors, including boarding schools. He has been headmaster of the Cathedral School in Cardiff (HMC 3-18 school) and principal of St Edward's College Liverpool (comprehensive 11-18 Catholic high school), both of them Cathedral choir schools. Now retired from headship, he works for an education union supporting senior leaders in Wales.

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