Ian D Grant CBE, FRAgS

Chairman, First Commissioner and Scottish Commissioner

Ian Grant first joined The Crown Estate Board on 1 September 1996 and was subsequently appointed Chairman of The Crown Estate in October 2002.

He farmed in Perthshire from 1962-1993. He is Chairman of Scottish Exhibition Centre Limited and is Deputy Chairman of NFU Mutual. In 1988 he was awarded the CBE for services to agriculture.

His other previous appointments have included President of the Scottish NFU; Chairman of the EC Cereals Working Party; Chairman of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers Grains Committee and Chairman of the Scottish Tourist Board. He was Deputy Chairman of Scottish & Southern Energy plc, a non-executive Director of Clydesdale Bank plc and East of Scotland Farmers Limited.

Aged 64.

Roger Bright MA(Cantab)

Chief Executive and Second Commissioner

Roger Bright graduated from Cambridge in 1973 and joined the Department of the Environment, where he went on to hold a series of senior positions, including Principal Private Secretary and Press Secretary to the Secretary of State. He left the civil service and became Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Corporation in 1991 and then held senior posts at the Personal Investment Authority, including Chief Executive, and subsequently Head of the Investment Business (Personal Investment Authority firms) Department at the Financial Services Authority.

Roger joined The Crown Estate in June 1999 as Director of Finance and Administration and was appointed to the Board in April 2000. In June 2001 he was appointed Chief Executive of The Crown Estate, taking up the post on 1 September 2001.

Aged 56.

Chris Bartram MA, FRICS

Non-Executive Board Member

Appointed to the Board on 1 January 2007.

Chris Bartram is currently Chairman of Orchard Street Investment Management and was Managing Director of Haslemere NV which was floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1999. Current non-executive appointments include: Chairman of Estate Management Development Fund at Cambridge University and Associate Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge.

Past (non-executive) appointments include: President of the British Property Federation, Chairman of the Bank of England Property and a non-executive Director of George Wimpey plc.

Aged 58.

Hugh Duberly CBE

Non-Executive Board Member

Appointed to the Board on 19 November 2001.

Hugh Duberly farms in Cambridgeshire and was a member of the Huntingdonshire District Council from 1979 until 2004. He was previously President of the Country Landowners Association and a Director of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation plc. Chairman of both the Papworth Trust and the Shuttleworth Trust, Hugh is also a Governor of Writtle College. He is HM Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

Aged 65.

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David Fursdon FRICS, FAAV

Non-Executive Board Member

Appointed to the Board in January 2008.

David Fursdon is a qualified rural chartered surveyor and agricultural valuer. He owns and manages an 800-acre family estate in Devon. He was formerly President of the Country Land & Business Association (CLA) which has 37,000 members across England and Wales. David is currently the Chairman of Governors for Blundell’s School, Parish Chairman, Deputy Lieutenant for Devon and a former member of the government’s Affordable Housing Commission and Heritage Protection Review.

Before taking the chairmanship of the CLA Board in 2003, he worked full time as an equity partner of Stags, the West Country Chartered Surveying firm.

Aged 55.

Jenefer Greenwood BSc, FRICS

Non-Executive Board Member

Appointed to the Board on 19 February 2004.

Jenefer Greenwood is currently Grosvenor Estate’s Retail Strategist, a position she took up in May 2003. Previously she worked for CB Hillier Parker for 25 years, where she was Head of Retail. Within Grosvenor she has particular responsibility for the retail positioning, leasing direction and marketing within the £3 billion development programme. She is a Board member of New West End Company and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Skills Academy for Retail.

Past President of the British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) and a member of the ICSC European Advisory Board, she is also a Governor of Westonbirt School.

Aged 50.

Martin Moore MRICS

Non-Executive Board Member

Appointed to the Board in April 2002.

Martin Moore is Managing Director of PRUPIM (Prudential Property Investment Managers) and director of M&G Ltd, the UK & European investment management arm of Prudential plc. He is a Board member and past President of the British Property Federation and chairs their Sustainability Committee. He also chairs the sustainability group of the Property Industry Alliance.

Martin is a past Chairman of the Investment Property Forum and Westminster Property Owners Association, was a member of the CABE Design Review Committee and has worked on various property related panels for both the Association of British Insurers and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Aged 51.

Dinah Nichols CB

Non-Executive Board Member

Appointed to The Crown Estate Board in January 2003.

Dinah Nichols is a non-executive Director of Pennon Group plc (a water and waste company) and of Shires Smaller Companies Investment Trust. In 2005 she became Chair of the National Forest Company. Until 2002 she was Director-General Environment in DEFRA, where her responsibilities covered policy for sustainable development, climate change, air and water quality, waste, chemicals and the environmental aspects of farming.

In her previous posts in the civil service she dealt with housing, construction, property, regeneration and transport. Dinah is also Chair of the regeneration charity, Groundwork, North London, and a Trustee of ENCAMS and the Travel Foundation.

Aged 64.

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