Giles Henderson

Giles Henderson

Giles Ian Henderson CBE, born 20 April 1942 in South Africa, is the present Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Gaining his Bachelor of Arts degree at Michaelhouse, University of the Witwatersrand, Henderson became Senior Mackinnon Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained his MA and BCL). He received the Fulbright Award from University of California, Berkeley in 1966-67.

Henderson joined Slaughter and May in 1968 and was admitted Solicitor in 1970. He became a Partner in 1975 and a Senior Partner in 1993, and was one of HM Government's most important advisers on the process of privatisation and a member of the Hampel Committee. He was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by HM The Queen in 1992, and became Master of Pembroke College, Oxford on 1 July 2001. Since 2007 he has been Chair of the Conference of Colleges.

Among his other appointments, Henderson is Chairman of the UK-China Forum law group, non-executive director of Land Securities REIT and Standard Life, and Senior Member of Oxford University Golf Club.

He married Lynne Fyfield on 21 August 1971. They have two sons, a daughter, and two dogs called Ellie and Gracie.

External links

* [http://www.jeremysutton.com/gileshenderson.html Jeremy Sutton's portrait of Giles Henderson]
* [http://www.ox.ac.uk/publicaffairs/pubs/annualreview/ar01/13.shtml University of Oxford Annual Review 2000-01]
*"Debrett's People of Today" (12th edn, London: Debrett's Peerage, 1999), p. 895


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