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News: 11 November 2020
New grant to continue the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
Our new grant to the British Museum will support EMKP for an additional seven years.
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Article: 17 December 2020
Monthly digest
Our December digest is out!
Each month, our grants team shares interesting news that relates to their work. Read, subscribe, or view the latest editions.
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Article: 03 September 2020
It’s a watery world… Our aspiration for a diverse and abundant ocean
Abundant, diverse and healthy marine ecosystems are crucial for all life on Earth. This is why almost 30% of the total giving in our environment programme, more than $70 million in grants since 2002, has supported work to protect the world’s oceans. This blog highlights some of this work.
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Case Study: 03 September 2020
Promoting strong marine protection policies in national waters
Protecting marine habitats, reducing threats to endangered species, stopping overfishing, curbing marine pollution.
Programme: Protecting endangered natureFocus area: GovernanceGrantee: Oceana -
Case Study: 26 August 2020
Documenting historic temples and wall paintings in Shanxi, China
Many of these buildings contain wall paintings illustrating stories from Chinese folk beliefs, Buddhism and Taoism.
Programme: Preserving endangered cultureFocus: Heritage SitesGrantee: University College London - Institute of Archaeology -
Case Study: 15 September 2020
Freeing public domain information
Public.Resource.Org is dedicated to publishing and sharing public domain materials that legally and morally should be free, but are locked behind paywalls.
Programme: Advancing open accessFocus area: Intellectual property rightsGrantee: Public.Resource.Org -
Article: 21 September 2020
Towards a greener Arcadia
The climate crisis requires us to rethink, change, adapt and act, because business as usual is no longer an option. Read about out work towards running Arcadia’s operations in a more environmentally sustainable way.
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Total awarded since 2002:$millionOur giving by programmePreserving endangered culture%$mProtecting endangered nature%$mPromoting open access%$m
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Dr Lisbet Rausing
Co-Founder
Co-founder of Arcadia. Lisbet did her BA at UC Berkeley and her PhD at Harvard University, where she was a lecturer and assistant professor in the history of science. Lisbet also supports family companies such as Ecolean, a liquid food packaging company, and Ingleby Farms, a farming company. Outside boards and committees have included the Harvard Board of Overseers and Yad Hanadiv Advisory Committee. She currently serves on the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Advisory Board.
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Professor Peter Baldwin
Co-Founder
Co-founder of Arcadia and chairman of the Donor and Advisory Boards. Peter is professor of history at UCLA and Global Distinguished Professor at NYU. He is a member of the board of the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Wikimedia Endowment, and chair of the board at the Center for Jewish History. Peter has written books on the history of the welfare state, of public health, and of copyright. He has a book on the history of crime and the law and one on the Covid-19 pandemic forthcoming in 2021.
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Dr Simon Chaplin
Chief Executive Officer
Simon is Arcadia’s CEO. He was previously Director of Culture & Society at the Wellcome Trust and Director of Wellcome Collection. He is a biologist-turned-historian and has served on the boards of several research-focused organizations including Research Libraries UK, the British Society for the History of Science and the Society for the History of Natural History.
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Dr Arthur Dudney
Cultural Grants Manager
Arthur manages Arcadia’s cultural grants. He was previously a research fellow at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a teaching fellow at SOAS. He holds a PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, and an AB from Princeton University’s Department of Classics.
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Dr Mike Heyworth
Consultant to Cultural Programmes
Mike works as a consultant as part of the culture team. He is an archaeologist by training and was previously the executive director of the Council for British Archaeology. He is now a consultant working with a range of archaeology and heritage groups across the UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Bradford in archaeological science.
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Dr Gerardo Fragoso
Director of Environmental Programmes
Gerardo heads Arcadia’s environmental programme. He was previously Head of Programme at the United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre, where he was responsible for overseeing advice provision on the protection of endangered species and their habitats.
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Dr Ross Mounce
Director of Open Access Programmes
Ross manages Arcadia’s open access grants. He was previously a postdoc in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, a Software Sustainability Fellow, and a Panton Fellow for open data in science. Ross gained his doctorate at the University of Bath, where his thesis focused on the role of morphology in analyses of evolutionary relationships that include fossil species.
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Dr Francesca McGrath
Environmental Grants Manager
Francesca manages Arcadia’s environmental grants, alongside Gerardo and Emma. Trained as a conservation scientist, she has international experience in coupled human-natural systems in Southeast Asia, US, UK, and wildlife trade in the Middle East. Francesca was previously a research fellow in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Her PhD from the National University of Singapore explored incentive-based conservation programmes in Indonesia. She also holds an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics.
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Dr Emma McIntosh
Environmental Grants Manager
Emma manages Arcadia’s environmental grants, alongside Gerardo and Francesca. She previously worked on environmental policy, monitoring and evaluation, and advocacy projects in Australia, French Polynesia and the UK including with the Great British Oceans coalition, Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. Emma holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford in conservation science.
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Jack Foxall
Consultant for Environmental Programmes
Jack supports the development of our environmental strategy and new grants. He has eighteen years of experience working in international nature conservation, and has managed several large-scale restoration projects. Jack has previously worked for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Fauna & Flora International, RSPB and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. He is a Geography graduate of King’s College, London.
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Andrew Wright
Chief Operating Officer and Director of Lund Trust
Andrew heads Arcadia’s operations and also leads Peter and Lisbet’s more personal giving through Lund Trust. He previously worked for Cripplegate Foundation, a charitable trust in North London. Andrew has a master’s degree in Aegean archaeology from the University of Sheffield.
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Tami Shacham
Operations and Communications Manager
Tami manages operations and communications for Arcadia and its sister charity, Lund Trust. She previously worked at Yad Hanadiv, a Rothschild family foundation. Tami has a master’s degree in culture studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Lucy Bromley
Operations Assistant
Lucy works alongside Tami and Andrew in Arcadia’s operational team. She previously worked at Sotheby’s, an international fine art auction house. Lucy has a master’s degree in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh.
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