Ian Ash, Chair of Trustees

Ian Ash recently retired from a career in the international High Tech Business with periods working in Paris, New York, San Francisco, Munich and Beijing as well as the UK. During this period he was Director, Chief Executive or Chairman of several companies from small start ups to major international Corporations. He has always been involved in the voluntary sector as a volunteer worker, fundraiser, trustee or Chairman focussing on disability and young people groups.

Alex Birks-Agnew

Alex is a secondary school teacher. He entered the profession through Teach First, which places graduates in challenging inner city schools, and subsequently spent two years working at a city academy in south London. An Award Holder himself, Alex was a member of the Diana Award’s first Youth Advisory Board. Alex currently manages the ICT department at a secondary school in south east London and is a trustee of a youth organisation near where he lives. He is the newest member of the Diana Award board of Trustees, having joined in Autumn 2007.

Roger Cooper

Roger is a Chartered Accountant. After most of his career in the financial services industry he has more recently worked advising a number of charities. He has been involved with the Princess Diana Award since its inception in 1999.

Diane Louise Jordan

Diane Louise Jordan is a television and radio presenter and a director of Chronicle21, a corporate motivational company. For Chronicle21, her clients have included Microsoft, Marks and Spencer plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Diane has many charitable commitments. Among these, she is a Vice President of NCH, Patron for the Oasis Trust and a recently appointed trustee of the Prince's Trust.

Victoria Sabin

Victoria Sabin, a communications specialist, has advised a wide range of major companies and voluntary organisations on communication campaigns and strategies both as an independent consultant working and for Brunswick, the leading financial PR consultancy and as Director of Public Relations for Forte and United Biscuits. Client she has worked with include Camelot; the World Health Organization, the families of the UK Guantanamo Bay detainees; Diana, the Princess of Wales Memorial Fund; Selfridges; French Connection; PowerGen and Mothercare

Pat Samuel

Pat joined the Office of the Third Sector in July 2007 as Deputy Director, Public Sector Partnerships.

Previously, Pat had been the Head of the Charity and Third Sector Finance Unit in HM Treasury from 2003, responsible for a wide range of third sector policy issues and for third sector aspects of the 2004 and 2007 Spending Reviews. Pat has had a long Civil Service career, having first joined the Treasury in 1985 where she worked on a range of policy areas in both domestic and international policy and financial management.

Pat started her career as a secondary school teacher. She has been a School Governor and is currently a Trustee of The Diana Award, a charity that promotes and celebrates community service for young people.