Kennedy Memorial Trust

11 November 2004

The Prime Minister has appointed Professor Kay-Tee Khaw and Daniel Alexander QC as Members of the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Memorial Trust for a period of five years from 11 November 2004 and 1 May 2005 respectively.

Biographical Notes

Professor Kay-Tee Khaw is professor of Clinical Gerontology at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She has served as a board member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (1992-1997), Trustee of Help the Aged (1993-1998), and as a member of the National Health Service UK Central Research and Development Committee (1991-1997), Medical Research Council UK Health Services and Public Health Research Board (1999-2003), MRC Cross Board Group (2001-2004) and World Heart Federation Council on Epidemiology and Prevention. She is also Co-ordinator of World Heart Foundation/World Health Organisation International Teaching Seminar, which trains physicians and scientists worldwide in research and prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Daniel Alexander QC is an Intellectual Property lawyer. He took a first degree in physics and philosophy at Oxford followed by an LLM at Harvard Law School as a Kennedy Scholar. He was called to the bar in both New York and England in 1988 and was appointed a QC in 2003. He has appeared in several leading cases with both technical and artistic subject matter. He is a member of the Oxford University Law Faculty Advisory Group. In 2001/2, he was a member of the Government's Commission on Intellectual Property Rights and was appointed a trustee of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts in June 1999.

Notes for Editors

The Kennedy Memorial Trust was established in 1966 to administer monies raised in the United Kingdom a tribute to the late President John Kennedy. Part of the fund was used to create and maintain the Kennedy Memorial site at Runnymede. The remaining capital is used to provide Kennedy Scholarships which enables British post-graduate students to study at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.