Members

Members hold the board of trustees (governors) to account for the effective governance of the trust.  Details of the College's members can be found below.

Dr Robert Guthrie

Dr Robert Guthrie holds a degree in Physics, a PhD in Ceramics and an MBA with Distinction from Durham University Business School. He was Head of Secondary and Principal of St George’s British International School, Rome in the 1990s before returning to the United Kingdom where he was Principal of Hockerill from 1996 to 2008.

He was Chair of the UK State Boarding Schools Association and on the Executive Committee of the Boarding Schools Association.

He is currently also a Chair of Governors and a Director of a Multi Academy Trust in Rutland, a Governor of St George’s British International School, Rome, and a Governor and Feoffee at Old Swinford Hospital in Stourbridge. 

He has been an Educational Adviser to a number of the country’s top performing schools and schools within Europe, presented at numerous educational conferences, and assisted with a number of Principal and Headship appointments.

A former international rugby player at school and university and lifelong Manchester United supporter.

Dr Deborah Outhwaite 

Deb Outhwaite is an expert in the education system, with interests in leadership and sustainability.  She has taught for 30 years at secondary, FE and HE. She is a Visiting Senior Fellow for Education in the Department of Social Policy at LSE; Director of Studies at the Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Liverpool; and the CEO of DTSA (a former teaching school, now a regional education charity) that trains teachers and provides STEM professional development in the East Midlands.

She is current Chair of BELMAS 2023-2026. She is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Fellow of CollectiveEd, Fellow of the Institute of Educational and Social Equity, and a Senior Fellow of the HE Academy.

She sits on the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Teaching Profession.

Jim Tatchell

Last year Jim concluded his 16 years of School Governor experience in Bishop’s Stortford, 8 years at Hockerill Anglo-European College and before that, 8 years at Thorn Grove Primary School.

During his time as Chair of the Resources committee at Hockerill Jim was part of the team that built the Science Block and the Sports Hall, as well as numerous other capital projects.

Both of Jim’s sons went to Hockerill from year 7 to 13 and continue to use the skills and knowledge they were fortunate enough to gain from being part of this community.

Jim has a degree in German, Swedish and Economics and has worked for several companies in finance – with experience in both very large and very small organisations, where he has seen the advantage of language ability at first hand.

Away from Hockerill Jim is CEO of the Anglo/Latvian Wealth Management firm Diagram Capital, and runs his international payments and currency conversion company, Circadian FX. He co-founded the charity Helping Herts which works with 12 other local charities to improve the life chances of children and young adults across Hertfordshire. Jim also co-founded the VolMatch Community CIC, which sources ad-hoc volunteering opportunities in the local area.