Staff

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Alexandra Henderson

Director & CEO

Having worked closely with the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Humanitas programmes, Alexandra became Director/CEO of the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust after its establishment in 2015. Her career has been in the television industry, both in management and production of news, current affairs and documentaries for the BBC, ITN and independently.

Christopher Shakespeare

Deputy Director

Following a career in educational and media publishing, Christopher has worked at the University of Oxford since 2008, in the collegiate system (St Hilda’s and St Peter’s), as well as the University’s development office for the Oxford School of Global and Regional Studies.

 
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Jane Baldwin

Scholarships and Leadership Programme Manager

Jane has a background in educational charities. She has worked extensively in the field of heritage management including museums, archaeological research projects and preservation trusts both in the UK and internationally.

 

Eman Hamdan

Business Challenge Lead

Eman has eight years of diverse experience in community-building, strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship, and business innovation background. She has worked in several technology start-ups, led several social impact projects in the Arab world and the UK and has experience obtaining funding for social projects and capital investment. Previously, she co-founded a social enterprise in 2013 in Palestine, where she worked for four years.
Eman is endorsed as Global talent from Tech Nation, a Chevening alumna, and a global Shaper at the World Economic Forum.

 

Advisors

 

Stephen Wright

Academic Fellow

Stephen Wright is Lecturer in Philosophy at Lincoln and Trinity Colleges. His research focuses on issues in Epistemology, Moral Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Religion. In 2018, he published his book Knowledge Transmission, which explores questions of how we come to know things by believing what people tell us. He has published papers on memory and testimony, the problems of persistence, the nature of trust, and the relationship between lying and truth.