The Nominations Committee is required to review the diversity of the membership of the Chapter and recommend how the Chapter can address any lack of diversity identified when it appoints new members. Whilst diversity encompasses age, disability, gender, race and sexual orientation, it can also include diversity of socio-economic background. The committee is made up of The Dean and five additional external members.
Edward Wild taught in secondary schools and worked for national charities before becoming the Development Director of an educational charity. He has advised a broad range of charities, schools and membership bodies on executive and non executive appointments and on strategy and mergers since 2004. Managing Director of Wild Search since 2010, Edward is a trustee of the Royal School of Church Music, a governor of St Pauls Cathedral School and a member of the Nominations Committee of Salisbury Cathedral. In Suffolk he has served on the Council of the Agricultural Association and the Long Shop Museum and the Executive Committee of Britten as a Boy.
Sue spent 27 years involved with criminal justice in the police and Magistrates’ Courts. More recently she shifted her focus to health & social justice, serving as Lay member of the Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership, Board member of Healthwatch Suffolk and Independent Chair of two separate groups working together to make Suffolk a dementia friendly county. She is Chapter Lead for social action & inclusion and a previous member of the Cathedral’s Finance Committee.
Neil was born in Lancashire, read Economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge and has lived in Mid Suffolk since 1978. He was a secondary school headteacher in Suffolk for 21 years and also worked in both advertising regulation at the ASA and press regulation at IPSO. He was a founder member of the board of Ofqual and a lay member of the Architects Registration Board. Neil is currently a Panel Member of the Suffolk Community Foundation and a Member of the St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Multi Academy Trust.
James moved to Bury St Edmunds in 1980 and is the third generation of the Cockram family to be involved in the town and our Cathedral. Professionally, he is a political campaign manager and trainer. During his career, he has worked on projects across the UK and around the world. Outside of politics, James is a Feoffee (charity trustee) of the Guildhall Feoffment and associated charities, supporting people in and around Bury St Edmunds. He is also trustee of a national charity providing benevolent support to people in need.
Liz is a Suffolk County Councillor representing the Gainsborough Division in the Southeast of Ipswich and was Chairman of Suffolk County Council from May 2024 for one year. She also represented Holywells Ward on Ipswich Borough Council for 23 years during which time she was Leader of the Council for six and a half years. Liz is patron of the Charity Talitha Koum which helps women who are being exploited and also a Patron of Family First, a small charity working to support families preventing homelessness. She is Chairman of The Ipswich Community Playbus, a member of the Foundation Development Trust at Ipswich School and Secretary of Ipswich Suffolk Business Club and is one of the four founding directors of Greener Ipswich CIC.
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