Sir Philip Adams, KCMG

Director: January 1977-August 1982

(17 December 1915 - 14 October 2001)

HM Ambassador to Egypt (1972-75); Deputy Secretary, The Cabinet Office (1970-72); HM Ambassador to Jordan (1966-70); HM Consul-General, Chicago (1963-66).

Former Directors

Sir John Holmes, GCVO, KBE, CMG

September 2010-August 2016

Sir Jeremy Greenstock, GCMG

August 2004 - August 2010

Sir Nigel Broomfield, KCMG

Director: August 1999-August 2004

Sir Michael Quinlan, GCB

Director: August 1992- August 1999

Sir John Graham, Bt, GCMG

Director: August 1987- August 1992

Sir Reginald Hibbert, GCMG

Director: August 1982- August 1987

Sir Michael Stewart, KCMG, OBE

Director: July 1971- December 1976

H V Hodson

Provost of Ditchley: November 1961- July 1971

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Participants of the Ditchley Foundation internship programme in 2021

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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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