The Trustees

The Trustees of the Coexist Foundation are:

• The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres

has been the Bishop of London and Dean of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal since 1996. He was educated at Cambridge, and taught history at the International School in Seville before being ordained as a Church of England minister in 1973. He served as Chaplain to Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, and as Rector of St Stephen’s Rochester Row, before becoming Bishop of Stepney in 1992. He is responsible on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury for relations with the Orthodox Churches; and is Chairman of the Trustees, and founder, of the St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace.
• Christopher Griffiths

studied at the University of Wales and the College of Law before joining the Thomas Tilling Group in London as a solicitor. He was later appointed as attorney in the London offices of Chrysler International. In 1980 he joined the Jameel Group as Legal Counsel and Group Secretary, and later moved to Oxford as Company Secretary of the Hartwell Group.
• Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel

is President of the Abdul Latif Jameel Co Ltd, the world’s largest independent Toyota and Lexus dealership, whose headquarters are in Jeddah. He studied at Japan’s Sophia University, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ALJ’s Community Service Programmes; the Jameel Poverty Action Lab and the Mohammed Yunus Challenge at MIT; and the Grameen-Jameel micro-credit partnership are some examples of ways in which Mohammed Jameel is working to tackle global challenges. He is also a Trustee of the Prince of Wales’ International Business Leaders Forum and the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, and a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
• Greville Janner, Lord Janner of Braunstone QC

has been a member of the United Kingdom’s Parliament since 1970, first as MP for Leicester North West, and, since 1997, as a Member of the House of Lords. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard Law School, he has written more than sixty books, many on employment law and on presentational skills and public speaking. He was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1978-1984; President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council; vice-President of the World Jewish Congress; Chairman of the Holocaust Education Trust; and joint-Founder, with HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal, of the Political Council for Coexistence.
• Edward McCabe

is Director of Seven Spires Investments ltd, a high-tech investment fund. He studied at Oxford and the Henley Management School, before joining Barclays Bank. From 1992-2005 he was Chief Executive and then Chairman of Hartwell plc, one of the UK’s biggest car-dealerships.
• Timothy Ryan

is Chairman of Bell Pottinger International. Educated in Australia, he served with the Australian Army and with the United Nations in the Middle East. He co-founded Chelworth, an aerospace and defence consultancy, and later joined SkyPharma, the UK-based Pharmaceuticals company, as Director of Communications. He performed a similar role at NTL, the Cable Media and Telecoms company, before moving to Bell Pottinger in 2003.
• Professor Muhammad Yunus

is the founder and Managing Director of Grameen Bank, which currently operates nearly two and a half thousand branches providing credit for more than seven million poor people across almost eighty thousand villages in Bangladesh. His Grameen banking concept – banking without collateral for the poorest of the poor – has won him a host of international prizes, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Professor Yunus studied economics at Vanderbilt University in the USA, and taught, first at Middle Tennessee University, and then at Chittagong University. He started the Grameen project in 1976, and the Grameen Bank was formally registered in 1983. Its principle - helping the rural poor into self-employment through small loans – has since been taken up across the world. Alongside Grameen Bank, Professor Yunus has established a series of companies in Bangladesh to address related issues of development and poverty. These include Grameen Phone, Grameen Cybernet, Grameen Communications, Grameen Fund, Grameen Renewable Energy and many others.