Tamsin James will take up her post as Honorary Treasurer and Trustee in August.
We are delighted to welcome Tamsin to the Gates Cambridge team and wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to Timothy Harvey-Samuel for his service.
Professor Eilis Ferran
Gates Cambridge is delighted to welcome Tamsin James as its new Honorary Treasurer and Trustee.
James, who is Bursar of Churchill College, will take office in August, stepping into the shoes of Timothy Harvey-Samuel, Bursar of Trinity Hall College.
She did a Law degree at Newcastle University and spent a year working as a graduate trainee in the Lord Chancellor’s Department before joining the University of Cambridge in 1999. Since then she has worked in various Departments, starting in the Registrary’s Office and then moving on to become Faculty Administrator in Classics and then English.
In 2010 she became Head of Corporate Governance in the first Community Services NHS Trust, helping to establish the Trust and supporting several mergers and a significant change management programme.
During her time with the NHS James also undertook postgraduate study in business law, finance and governance, to become a Chartered Company Secretary and she is now a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute of the UK & Ireland.
In 2013 James re-joined the University, becoming Deputy Director of the Institute of Continuing Education. She joined Churchill College as Bursar in February 2017. Her responsibilities include oversight of the College’s Amalgamated Investment Fund as well as the wider financial affairs of the College, governance, estates, operations and personnel.
Professor Eilis Ferran, Provost of Gates Cambridge, said: “We are delighted to welcome Tamsin to the Gates Cambridge team and wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to Timothy Harvey-Samuel for his service. Tamsin’s wide-ranging experience will prove invaluable to the Trust as we continue to develop and evolve. She joins the Trust at an auspicious moment as we mark our 25th anniversary and celebrate the ripple effect that our scholars are having across the globe.”
