Founder
Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE
Governors
Chairman The Marchioness of Douro OBE
Vice Chair Ricki Gail Conway
Governor Emeritus The Lady Sainsbury CBE *
Suneel Bakhshi
Jonathan Chenevix-Trench
Nicolas Chisholm
Richard Cunis
Clarissa Farr
David Fletcher
Tony Hall
Candida Hurst-Brown
Janet Lambert
Sir David Lees
Professor Margaret Maden
Dame Monica Mason DBE *
Madeleine Plaut
Edmund Wallis

* danced with The Royal Ballet and/or Birmingham Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet)

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Advisory Board
David Bintley CBE *
Darcey Bussell CBE *
Felicity Clark
Sir Anthony Dowell CBE *
Sir Peter Wright CBE *

* danced with The Royal Ballet and/or Birmingham Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet)

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Director
Gailene Stock AM, ARAD, Grad Dip Ed (Visual and Performing Arts)
Assistant Director
Jay Jolley BA (Hons) Dip RBS (PDTC) *
Chief Operating Officer
Alan Winter
Academic and Pastoral Head
Dr Charles Runacres MA (Cantab, York) PhD (Bristol)
Head of Lower School - White Lodge
Phillippa Hogg-Andrews BEd (Hons)
Ballet Principal Lower School - White Lodge
Diane van Schoor FISTD (CSF) Fin Dip FRSA (International Examiner)
Head of Outreach and Teacher Training
Mark Annear Dip Dance (Hons) Dip Teaching (TAFE) BEd (VET) Grad Cert (Elite Ballet Instruction)
Head of Development
Sarah Eliot-Cohen
Head of Finance
Pippa Adamson BSc (Hons) ACMA

* danced with The Royal Ballet and/or Birmingham Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet)

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Upper School
Gary Norman ARAD Grad Cert Ed (Visual and Performing Arts)
Meelis Pakri
David Peden ARAD Dip PDTC *
Nicola Tranah Dip PDTD RAD *
Rosalyn Whitten ARAD Dip PDTC *
Anita Young FISTD ARAD *
Lower School
Antonio Castilla
Jessica Clarke Dip RBS (PDTC)
Tania Fairbairn BPhil (Hons) Dip RBS
Belinda Hatley Dip RBS (PDTC) *
Nicola Katrak ARAD *
Hope Keelan Dip RBS (TTC) ARAD ATC (Hons)
Diane van Schoor FISTD (CSF) Fin Dip FRSA (International Examiner)
David Yow Dip RBS (TCPD) LISTD BSc (Hons) *
Associate staff
Melanie Agar B Phil (Hons) Dip RBS (TTC)
Suzie Amiet Dip RBS (TTC)
Amanda Armstrong Dip PDTD
Paul Bayes-Kitcher Dip PDTD RAD *
Victoria Collinson Dip RBS (TTC)
Jayne Cooper Dip RBS (TTC) FISTD ARAD
Helen Farrell Dip RBS (TTC)
Graham Fletcher Dip RBS (TCPD) *
Nicola Gaines B Phil (Hons) LISTD
Sylvia Hubbard Dip RBS (TTC) AISTD
Jessica Kidwell ACSM
Harvey Klein BA RAD Stott Pilates
Susan Lucas *
Jenny Murphy MA Dip PDTD RAD *
Annette Pain *
Karen Paisey *
Carol Pakri BFA (Hons) Dip RBS (PDTC)
Guest Teacher Tamara Rojo ARAD *
Catherine Royce
Samira Saidi ARAD Dip RBS (PDTC) *
Neil Westmoreland Dip PDTD

* danced with The Royal Ballet and/or Birmingham Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet)

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