First Story
Fostering creativity, literacy and talent
Who we are
- Executive Director: Katie Waldegrave
- Director: William Fiennes
- Programme Manager: Monica Parle
- Programme Officer: Sarah Marsh
Directors
- Beth Colocci (Independent Curator and Photographer)
- William Fiennes (Writer)
- Charlotte Hogg (Managing Director, Experian UK and Ireland)
- Rob Ind (Head of English, Cranford Community College)
- Jane MacKay (Grant Thornton)
- John Rendel (CEO, Promoting Equality in African Schools)
- Alastair Ruxton (Senior Lawyer, London 2012)
- James Wood (CEO, Data Transparency)
Advisory Board
- Lord Adonis - Secretary of State for Transport
- Julian Barnes - Writer
- Jamie Byng - Publisher, Canongate
- Alex Clark - Former Editor, Granta
- Julia Cleverdon - CEO, Business in the Community
- Andrew Cowan - Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, UEA
- Jonathan Dimbleby - Writer and Broadcaster
- Mark Haddon - Writer
- Josephine Hart - Writer and Presenter
- Simon Jenkins - Writer
- Andrew Kidd - Literary Agent, Aitken Alexander Associates
- Rona Kiley - CEO Academy Sponsors Trust
- Chris Patten - Chancellor, The University of Oxford
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Kevin Prunty - Headteacher
- Deborah Rogers - Literary Agent
- Zadie Smith - Writer
- Alicia Stubbersfield - Writer and Teacher
- William Waldegrave - Chairman, Science Museum
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Brett Wigdortz - CEO, Teach First
William FiennesPhoto by Joe Miller
Katie WaldegravePhoto by Neil Turner
