Principal responsibilities Trustees

The Trustees will have a diverse background, with a focus on expertise in finance, law and history.

The Trustees will have the ultimate responsibility for
  • The running of the Endowment and
  • The approval of the use of funds generated by the Endowment
The Trustees will have the power to appoint the members of the Investment Committee
  • Subject to guidelines established at the inception of the Endowment
The Trustees will approve annual disbursements of cash to UWC Mostar based on consideration of an annual budget presentation
  • Additional information relating to the performance of the school from bi-annual reviews of performance against agreed KPIs
The Trustees will have a diverse background, with a focus on expertise in finance and law
Lord Guglielmo Verdirame
Chairman
International Law, King's College and QC
Fleur Meijs
Executive director
Former partner with PwC
Jutta Freifrau von Falkenhausen
Corporate Lawyer
Sir Mike Jackson
Former Head of the British Army
Prof Emma Widdis
Head of Slavonic Studies, Cambridge University
Prof Ewald Engelen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Principal responsibilities Investment Committee

The members of the Investment Committee will typically be UWC alumni with a strong background in finance and investing.

The Investment Committee will be responsible for making overall asset allocation decisions and for the selection of professional money managers of Endowment fund
  • The fund will be invested with external fund managers
  • No money will be invested with the firms where the members of the Investment committee work or have worked in the past in order to avoid conflicts of interest.
The Investment Committee will meet and report to the Trustees on a quarterly basis
  • Quarterly meetings to review investment strategy, new opportunities and results
The members of the Investment Committee will typically be UWC alumni with a strong background in finance and investing
  • All will work on a pro bono basis
  • It is recommended that each member will donate one scholarship endowment to ensure alignment of interests with donors
Adriaan de Mol van Otterloo
UWC of the Adriatic
Partner, Intrinsic Value Investors (Public equity)
Mayamiko Kachingwe
UWC of the Atlantic
Former MD, Terra Firma (Private equity)
Shaked Atia
UWC Mostar
UWC Mostar alum and Analyst with Morgan Stanley
Eszter Marton
UWC Red Cross Nordic College
Analyst, Intrinsic Value Investors (Operations / Governance)
Pål Ristvedt
UWC of the Adriatic
Partner, Lexington Partners (Private equity)