Dr Lisbet Rausing

Co-Founder

Co-founder of Arcadia and Lund Trust, which works to green peoples' lives in the UK. 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 Ingleby Farms, a farming company. She is a trustee of the National Trust and the Ecological Restoration Fund. Outside boards and committees have included the Harvard Board of Overseers, Yad Hanadiv Advisory Committee and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Advisory Board.

Professor Peter Baldwin

Co-Founder

Co-founder of Arcadia and chairman of the Advisory Board. 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 copyright, and of public health, including one on the covid epidemic. His most recent book, on the open access movement, was published in March 2023.

Frances Beinecke

Advisory Board

Frances is President Emerita of the Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC). She serves on the Boards of ClientEarth, the World Resources Institute, the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, the Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the Advisory Board of Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

Dr Johannes Burger

Advisory Board

Johannes is a partner at Marxer & Partner, the oldest and largest law firm in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Centrum Bank from 2008 to 2015.

Sir Charles Burrell Bt

Advisory Board

Charles owns the 3,500 acre Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex. Since 2001, he has devoted the estate to a landscape-scale rewilding project, with free-roaming cattle, horses, pigs, and deer driving habitat creation. Numerous endangered species have returned to Knepp, and it is now a breeding hotspot for turtle doves, purple emperor butterflies and nightingales.

Anthea Case CBE FRSA

Advisory Board

Anthea served as Principal Adviser of Arcadia between 2004 and 2020. She previously worked in the Treasury, and was Chief Executive of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 for services to heritage. Anthea's roles in the heritage and arts sector have included chair of the Heritage Alliance and Heritage Commissioner on CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment). She is currently on the boards of the Illuminated River Foundation, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival Trust and a member of the British Council’s Cultural Protection Advisory Group.

Professor Dr Markus Hilgert

Advisory Board

Professor Dr Markus Hilgert is the secretary general and chief executive officer of the Kulturstiftung der Länder (Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States). Previously, Markus was the director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of the Ancient Near East) in the Pergamonmuseum, Berlin and Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Heidelberg University. He established the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage at Heidelberg University as well as the Center for Digital Cultural Heritage in Museums at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

Heather Joseph

Advisory Board

Heather is the executive director of SPARC, a global coalition committed to making “open” the default for research and education. She has served on the Board of Directors of non-profit organizations including the Public Library of Science (PLOS), Duraspace, EIFL, the Center for Open Science and ImpactStory. In 2015, Heather was appointed to the Commerce Data Advisory Council of the United States Department of Commerce.

Sigrid Koerner

Advisory Board

Sigrid Koerner is a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge and is currently a doctoral student in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. Her research addresses the intersection of visual arts and poetics in the late Middle Ages, with a particular focus on animated sculptures of Christ crucified. Sigrid is a visual artist and a graduate of City and Guilds of London Art School. She also has an active interest in regenerative farming.

Neil MacGregor OM

Advisory Board

Neil chairs the Steering Committee charged with preparing the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. He was previously director of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015, and of the National Gallery from 1987 to 2002. He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2010.

Jonathan (Jonny) Hughes

Advisory Board

Jonny is an ecologist and conservation professional. He is WCMC chief executive officer at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and former chief executive officer of the Scottish Wildlife Trust. Jonny has held several senior board roles, including at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Cambridge Conservation Initiative, and the World Forum on Natural Capital, which he co-founded. He is also chair of the Postcode Green, Planet and Earth Trusts and a trustee at the John Ellerman Foundation.

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.

Dr Arthur Dudney

Director of Cultural Programmes

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.

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.

Dr Gerardo Fragoso

Director of Environmental Programmes

Gerardo Fragoso is responsible for the development and management of Arcadia’s environmental grants portfolio. He was previously Head of Programme at the United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre, where he was responsible for overseeing the provision of advice to national and intergovernmental authorities on the protection of endangered species and their habitats. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Gerardo’s professional and academic experience span marine and terrestrial conservation, both in tropical and in temperate environments. He is also a qualified financial manager.

Dr Francesca McGrath

Senior Environmental Grants Manager

Francesca manages Arcadia’s environmental grants, alongside Gerardo, Catherine 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.

Dr Catherine Docherty

Environmental Grants Manager

Catherine manages Arcadia’s environmental grants, alongside Gerardo, Francesca and Emma. She previously worked in project design, impact evaluation and learning at Fauna & Flora International and research development at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham and was a postdoctoral researcher at Shinshu University, Japan. Her research focused on the impact of a changing climate on Arctic and Alpine river systems. Catherine also holds an MSc in Conservation Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Dr Emma McIntosh

Consultant to Environmental Programmes

Emma works as a consultant as part of the environment team. She specializes in marine conservation, programme design and impact evaluation. Emma previously worked with the Great British Oceans coalition, Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. Emma holds a DPhil in conservation science from the University of Oxford.

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.

Andrew Wright

Director of Lund Trust

Andrew leads on strategy and grant-making for Lund Trust, our sister-charity. He previously worked for Cripplegate Foundation, a charitable trust in North London. Andrew has an MA in Aegean Archaeology and an MSc in Philanthropy, Grantmaking and Social Investment.

Olivia Dryden

Lund Trust programme Officer

Olivia works with Andrew on Lund Trust's grant-making. She previously worked in project management and grant-making at the Prince’s Countryside Fund, Trees for Cities, and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. Olivia has an MSc in International Development and a BA in African Studies with Anthropology.

Tami Shacham

Chief Operating Officer

Tami heads Arcadia’s operations and communications. 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.

Lucy Bromley

Operations and Communications Officer

Lucy works with Tami and Sofia on Arcadia and Lund Trust's operations and communications. 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.

Sofia Sancho

Operations Assistant

Sofia works with Tami and Lucy on Arcadia and Lund Trust's operations and communications. She has a bachelor's degree in Human Sciences from University College London.