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Chairman’s Introduction

The Chairman opened the meeting by welcoming two new Members of the Board to their first meeting – Professor Geoffrey Crossick, a newly appointed Co-opted Governor and Thomas Steer, the newly elected Guildhall School Student representative and President of the Student Union.

The Chairman went on to record his thanks to Lucy Frew who had written to him to indicate that she would soon be standing down from the Board and from the Court of Common Council. The Chairman wished to thank Ms Frew for her service on the Board to date. He reported that it was anticipated that the Common Council vacancy on the Board would now be advertised and appointed to before the end of the calendar year.

Apologies for absence were received from Stuart Fraser, Lucy Frew, Alderman David Graves, Jeremy Mayhew and Alderman William Russell.