Trustees

Lynn is a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Certified Coach with over 16 years’ experience. She is known for her no-nonsense yet non-judgmental approach to coaching upheld with a commitment to empowering her clients. Her coaching specialities include leadership performance, team building, communications, and diversity skills. She has experience coaching a cross-section of clients from C-suite executives and their teams to young professionals in industries as diverse as finance, auditing, marketing, media, and music. Her clients include companies like Nike, KPMG, EY, Barclays, and PayPal. Previously Lynn worked as an on-air journalist at networks including BBC, ITV 1, CNN, CBS, CNBC, and GMTV among others.

Louise is an artist who has been working in collaboration with her twin sister, Jane Wilson, since 1989. Currently the Wilsons are joint Professors of Fine Art at Newcastle University. Their early works centred on abandoned buildings, often imbued with the presence and ideology of the original occupants. Through carefully choreographed film installations, sound works and photography they have explored some of Europe’s least accessible sites, including a former Stasi Prison, the British Houses of Parliament and the huge Star City complex in Moscow, a key site of the Russian Space Programme. In 1999 they were nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2018 were appointed Royal Academicians. In 2020, they were the coordinators of the 252nd Royal Academy Summer/Winter Exhibition. Louise is a trustee at BALTIC and R.A. Council Member.

Tara is a qualified solicitor with over 20 years’ experience gained in private practice and in-house. Tara served as Head of Legal at Tate, leading on wide-ranging legal advice across Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Enterprises Ltd. She also acted as company secretary to Tate Foundation and Tate Exhibition Productions Ltd. After training in commercial law and civil litigation and qualifying in a city firm of solicitors, she joined DLA Piper LLP specialising in Corporate/Commercial law. Before joining Tate, Tara’s keen interest in non-Western art history led to her taking a pause from legal practice to embark on a MA in History of Art, which she was awarded with distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). Tara read law at Cambridge University (Corpus Christi College) and holds both a BA and MA in Law. Tara also holds a Diploma in Art Profession Law and Ethics from the Institute of Art and Law and Certificate in Cultural/Creative Industries and IP Law from City University.

Sam is a cultural communications consultant based in London, working internationally with many leading public and commercial galleries, museums, art fairs, festivals, private foundations, artists and curators. His clients include Maureen Paley, Alison Jacques, Pace Gallery, Camden Art Centre, Dia Art Foundation, Goldsmiths CCA, Nottingham Contemporary, Spike Island, Independent and Freelands Foundation. Sam works with a small team to offer services including strategic media planning, media and VIP relations, cultural advocacy, events management and crisis communications. Sam is on the Board of Trustees of  Chisenhale Gallery and on the Advisory Board of Troy Town Art Pottery. 

Aindrea studied at The Courtauld Institute of Arts before embarking on a career as a curator and art historian focussing on colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation. Her recent exhibition BLACK VENUS; a survey of the legacy of the Black woman in visual culture opened at Fotografiska, New York in May 2022 and will tour to MOAD, San Francisco and Somerset House, London in 2023. Aindrea has contributed to numerous publications, most recently Revising Modern British Art (Lund Humphries, 2022). Her first book, A Brief History of Protest Art was published by Tate in 2022. In 2021, Aindrea was appointed to the Mayor of London’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, and in 2022, she was named Curator at Large at the Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA).

Fabienne is the head of D&PS Finance and Portfolio Governance within the Corporate and Investment Bank of JPMorgan Chase & Co. She leads a global team of 250+ across Finance, Investment Governance and Vendor Management. Her focus is on business and finance process transformation to improve transparency across a $7bn expense base. Prior to joining the Finance organization, Fabienne led the EMEA CIB Strategy team, providing thought leadership and fact-based analysis to frame key strategic decisions of the firm. Born and raised in Belgium, Fabienne worked for many years in New York before relocating to London in 2013.

Oba is a Nigerian-born, London-based lawyer. When he took silk in the UK in 2002, he became the first Nigerian practising abroad to be promoted to Queen’s (now King’s) Counsel. He spent 7 years as a member of the Judicial Studies Board, England & Wales, responsible for the training of Judges and Recorders. In 2005, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria and elected a Bencher of Gray’s Inn. In 2006 he was elected a participant of the Royal Society of Arts. For the past 15 years, he has headed Pump Court Chambers in London. He is a Visiting Professor of Law to City University, and a Senior participant of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (“NLI”). Oba was recently elected Chair of the Africa Centre and is a Trustee of the Yinka Shonibare Foundation.