Staff
Dame Hilary Boulding
Director & Chief Executive
Hilary joined the Weidenfeld Hoffmann Trust following eight years as the President of Trinity College Oxford, and ten years prior to that as the Principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Her earlier career was in BBC television and radio, as a Producer and Manager in arts broadcasting.
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.