Sir Mark Henry Richmond

I was at school at Epsom College and, after National Service, was an undergraduate and then postgraduate at Clare. During the 1970s I was funded by the MRC to work on bacterial resistance to antibiotics (notably MRSA) first in the National Institute for Medical Research, then in the University of Edinburgh and finally in the University of Bristol. In 1998 I switched from Research to Administration, first as Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University and then as Chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council.  Following "retirement" in 1998, I worked for several years as a Consultant for Hoffman La Roche in Basel, becoming a Board Member of Genentech, then owned by Roche, in San Francisco. During this period I was heavily involved in fund-raising for Pembroke and, with Howard Raingold and Clive Trebilcock, set up the Pembroke Corporate Partnership Scheme.