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Lomax Rachel

Ms Rachel Lomax

Deputy Chair, British Council


Deputy Chair British Council; Non-executive Director, Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited; Serco Group; Breugel, Brussels.

Formerly: Non executive director HSBC; Chair, International Regulatory Strategy group; Director, The City UK; President, Institute of Fiscal Studies; Deputy Governor (Monetary Stability), Bank of England (2003-08); Permanent Secretary, Departments for Transport, Work and Pensions and the Welsh Office; senior official at World Bank, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury.

An Honorary Governor (2023 -) and Finance and General Purposes Committee member (2017-), formerly a member of the Council of Management (2014-2022), The Ditchley Foundation.

Honorary Governors

Participants of the Ditchley Foundation internship programme in 2021

The Ditchley Internship Programme

The Ditchley Internship programme offers over 50 students the opportunity each year to become immersed in the ethos of Ditchley.

Antique chairs and sofas at Ditchley Park

Our Home at Ditchley Park

Ditchley Park is part of the world’s heritage and remains as central to our way of working now as it has ever been. 

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