{"id":45450,"date":"2025-03-27T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/?page_id=45450"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:25:35","slug":"board-of-trustees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/?page_id=45450","title":{"rendered":"Background and Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: -2em;\" align=\"justify\">IHES Trust UK is a charity for the public benefit supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/en\/\">Institut des Hautes \u00c9tudes Scientifiques (IHES)<\/a>. It is dedicated to advancing science and education in fundamental mathematics, theoretical physics, and related disciplines in the UK. Its key goals include:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><p align=\"justify\">Promoting appreciation and understanding of science which has originated in France and furthering British and French relations on scientific research and debate.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><p align=\"justify\">Carrying out and facilitating scientific research in the fields mentioned above and promoting and publishing the useful results of the same.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><p align=\"justify\">Enhancing public awareness and understanding of these fields and related scientific theories and developments.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><p align=\"justify\">Participating in scientific debate.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\">A founding member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/en\">Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay<\/a>, IHES is a globally renowned private research institute specializing in mathematics, theoretical physics, and related disciplines. Recognized as a Foundation serving the public interest, the Institute hosts a small team of permanent professors and welcomes around 200 researchers annually from across the globe for research visits. The Institute\u2019s core values of research freedom, independence, and interdisciplinarity make it a unique and vital hub for fundamental scientific discovery.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading blue\">Board of trustees<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brown-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brown-1.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brown-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brown-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/francis-brown-1a9467158\">Francis Brown, Chair of the Board of Trustees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis Brown is a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University with dual Franco-British citizenship. He has over 10 years&#8217; experience in the charities sector and serves as a trustee of All Souls College, Oxford, where he is a Senior Research Fellow. He has a long-standing relationship with the IHES where he has been a frequent visitor in several different guises: as a Ph.D student, post-doctoral fellow, CNRS researcher and Gelfand chair.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bioche.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bioche.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bioche-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bioche-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/guillaume-bioche-9892465\/\"><strong>Guillaume Bioche, Trustee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guillaume Bioche works in the banking industry in London and has a longstanding interest in mathematics. He is involved in developing automated market-making algorithms and strategies, in particular for the fixed-income markets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cont.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cont.jpg 340w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cont-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cont-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rama-cont-0493203\"><strong>Rama Cont, Trustee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rama Cont is Professor of Mathematics and Chair of Mathematical Finance at the University of Oxford and Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematics of Random Systems. Rama Cont&#8217;s research focuses on stochastic analysis, stochastic processes and mathematical modeling in finance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gibson.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gibson.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gibson-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gibson-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amy-g-b3830b13\/\"><strong>Amy Gibson, Trustee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Gibson is an experienced corporate and commercial solicitor specialising in commercial and IP matters. Her career has taken her from city law firm to the Abbey Road recording studios and on to data science, animal genetics and now drug discovery and AI.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ullmo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ullmo.jpg 340w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ullmo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ullmo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/en\/professeur\/emmanuel-ullmo-2\/\"><strong>Emmanuel Ullmo, Trustee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emmanuel Ullmo is a Professor of Mathematics at the Orsay Mathematics Laboratory of Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay in France and has served as Director of the Institut des Hautes \u00c9tudes Scientifiques (IHES) since 2013. His research lies in arithmetic geometry, a field at the crossroads of number theory and algebraic geometry. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waelwska.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waelwska.jpg 340w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waelwska-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waelwska-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a><strong>Clotilde Walewska, Trustee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clotilde Walewska began her career at Electra Partners, a private equity firm in Paris, before spending five years in London as part of KPMG Corporate Finance\u2019s Private Equity team. With a deep interest in the sciences, Clotilde and her husband have been longtime supporters of the Institut des Hautes \u00c9tudes Scientifiques (IHES).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHES Trust UK is a charity for the public benefit supporting the Institut des Hautes \u00c9tudes Scientifiques (IHES). It is dedicated to advancing science and education in fundamental mathematics, theoretical physics, and related disciplines in the UK. Its key goals include: A founding member of Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, IHES is a globally renowned private research institute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45450"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45913,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45450\/revisions\/45913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}