Going on 50 years, The Trust was established by HM King Charles III, then His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, against a backdrop of widespread unemployment. Today, its work has transformed the lives of over one million vulnerable young people in the UK and around the globe.
The Trust, including The King’s Trust USA, helps thousands of young people every day who are facing tremendous hardships, from unemployment to social exclusion, poverty, mental health issues, disability, and abuse. Without the right help, they would struggle to move forward in education or employment, and consequently become increasingly at risk of poverty, ill health, and exploitation in their adult lives.
➔ Over 75% of The Trust’s beneficiaries transform their life chances by re-engaging with education, securing employment, or even starting their own business and creating jobs for others.
➔ The Trust in the UK has returned over $1.7 billion in value to society in the last decade.
The King’s Trust Group is a global network of charities founded by HM King Charles III. The King’s Trust Group is active in 23 countries, within the Commonwealth and beyond, and includes the work of The King’s Trust in the UK alongside King’s Trust International, King’s Trust Australia, King’s Trust Aotearoa New Zealand, King’s Trust Canada and King’s Trust USA.
In a rapidly changing world, The King’s Trust Group delivers Education, Employment and Enterprise projects that enable young people and communities to thrive. We are focused primarily on transforming lives by enabling children and young people between the ages 11 to 30 to complete their journey from education to employment, providing programs to develop their confidence and life skills, provide them access to education and training, and offer them support to move into employment and self-employment.
We currently deliver programs in the following countries: AUSTRALIA | BARBADOS | CANADA | EGYPT | GHANA | GREECE | INDIA | JAMAICA | JORDAN | KENYA | MALAYSIA | MALTA | NEW ZEALAND | NIGERIA | PAKISTAN | RWANDA | SERBIA | ST LUCIA | TANZANIA | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | UGANDA | UK | USA
Jeremy Green, CBE
BOARD CHAIR
Jeremy is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Redmile Group, LLC, an investment firm that focuses on the health care sector. He has invested in life science companies for over 25 years. Prior to founding Redmile in 2007, he worked at Andor Capital, Salomon Brothers and SBC Warburg. Redmile’s investments have enabled the launch of innovative products and services, collectively generating over $60bn in revenues. Jeremy has worked with the King’s Trust for over two decades initially in the UK. Since its founding in 2019, Jeremy has served as Chair of King’s Trust USA (formerly Prince’s Trust USA). and as a trustee of The King’s Trust Group since 2022.
Jeremy is a Fellow of the fourth class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He currently sits on the board of directors of EDH. He has previously served on the boards of One Medical (ONEM) and Alder BioPharmaceuticals (ALDR) , the UK Government’s Life Sciences Scale-up Task Force and has taught at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
In 2024 Jeremy was appointed as a CBE for services to Business, Philanthropy and support to The King’s Trust. He holds a Master’s Degree (biological sciences) from Oxford University. He currently lives in Paris, with his wife and three children.
Rudyard Ceres
TRUSTEE
Rudyard W. Ceres is a trusted business and legal advisor with over 25 years of experience. He supports clients through all stages of a business’s life cycle, from inception to exit, across industries such as finance, technology, logistics and entertainment.
Mr. Ceres’ dual UK and US qualifications, coupled with his extensive experience over the past twenty-five (25) years plus, allows him to work closely with private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, family offices, high-net-worth clients and not-for-profit entities, to identify, manage and mitigate their legal and business risks globally. Beyond his significant experience working on cross-jurisdictional matters and with global teams, he also has extensive international work experience including contract/settlement negotiations, import regulations, export controls, economic sanctions, international arbitration, anti-bribery, and regulatory compliance.
Ceres has helped foreign governments attract investments, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, and has served as a liaison at the United Nations. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and sports, particularly soccer. He holds a Solicitors Finals from the College of Law, York, and an LLB Hons from the University of Leicester. He teaches “International Business Transactions” at Fordham Law School in New York City.
Oliver Christian
TRUSTEE
Oliver Christian is His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America and His Majesty’s Consul General to New York as of March 2025.
Prior to this role, Oliver Christian was His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for the Middle East and Pakistan, and His Majesty’s Consul General to Dubai since September 2023.
Oliver was previously Head of the Prime Minister’s Business Unit in Downing Street, serving four Prime Ministers from 2019 to 2023. Oliver was responsible for maintaining a trusted link between the Prime Minister, Whitehall and the boardrooms of UK and international businesses and investors. He oversaw over £78 billion of investment and export deals, establishing the UK Global Investment Summit and the creation of the Office of Investment during his tenure.
Prior to that he helped establish the Department for International Trade (now the Department for Business and Trade), as the Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State and President of the Board of Trade in 2016. Oliver has 13 years’ experience in Government having worked in trade, investment, business, regulation and security across several Departments and represented the UK in its missions overseas.
Oliver has a degree from Keele University in International Relations and Philosophy and studied abroad at the University of Toronto.
Kate James
TRUSTEE
Kate James worked for three decades in communications and branding most recently as Chief Corporate Affairs & Global Marketing Officer for Pearson where she lead their efforts to build a global education brand and an innovation driven culture. A passionate advocate for the private sector’s role in tackling some of the world’s toughest development challenges she also oversaw the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund and the company’s social impact work.
Prior to joining Pearson, Kate was Chief Communications’ Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Before Gates she held senior leadership roles in the financial services industry including global head of communications at Citibank and leading the advocacy and sustainability practice at Standard Chartered Bank. Kate serves on the boards of the National Audubon Society, World Reader, Unreasonable Group and chairs the Vital Voices’ Board. A graduate of Cambridge University, Kate moved to the US in 2005 and currently lives in California.
James Sommerville, OBE
TRUSTEE
James Sommerville is a recognized creative leader whose career spans from Yorkshire street artist to founder of KnownUnknown, a global creative talent network reinventing the agency model.
At 19, James co-founded ATTIK with Simon Needham using a £2,000 grant from The Prince’s Trust. Over 25 years, ATTIK grew to offices across Leeds, London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sydney, before being acquired by Dentsu in 2007.
As Global Design Vice President at The Coca-Cola Company (2013-2018), James led transformative brand design across 200+ markets, rebranding over 20 billion-dollar brands including Coca-Cola, Sprite, and Fanta. Former Global CMO Marcos de Quinto noted that James represents “a ‘before and after’ in the history of The Coca-Cola Company.”
In 2019, James launched KnownUnknown, connecting world-class creative talent with brands including Ford, Google, HP, and Kellogg’s.
Henry Timms
TRUSTEE
Henry Timms is the Global Chief Executive Officer of Brunswick. With 27 offices around the world, he is a trusted advisor to CEOs and Boards globally.
Before joining Brunswick, Henry served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Over five years, he transformed the Lincoln Center, both commercially and creatively, with the 65-year-old organization named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. In the face of the pandemic, Henry reimagined the organization, completing the $550 million David Geffen Hall project two years early, and building an outdoor performing arts center to serve the city during such challenging years.
He is the creator and co-founder of “Giving Tuesday”, the global generosity movement designed as a philanthropic counterpoint to Black Friday, it has generated over $20 billion for good causes and now takes place in over 100 countries.
Henry’s thinking has had significant influence on the business community globally. Henry is the co-author of the international bestselling book “New Power” which was named as a Book of the Year by Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune and FT. He has authored landmark articles on power, AI, and technology for Harvard Business Review.
Henry was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Arts and to Philanthropy. He is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the King’s Trust USA.
Liz Weikes
TREASURER
Liz Weikes is a Managing Director and Wealth Partner at J.P. Morgan Wealth Management. As the founding partner of her team, Liz draws on her blended capabilities to offer family office wealth management and high-level executional services. With more than 17 years of experience helping clients navigate complex wealth planning, Liz has earned a reputation for executional excellence with her clients, comprised of ultra-high-net-worth families, C-suite executives, and foundations. She is a member of the J.P. Morgan Wealth Management Portfolio Manager Program and manages her clients’ assets holistically with a family office-style model. She offers comprehensive investment strategies and active portfolio management, and the capabilities of JPMorgan Chase important to her clients, including philanthropic advisory, estate planning, banking, and lending.
A graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, Liz took a nontraditional path to Wall Street and began her career at the British Embassy working for the Department of International Trade. She joined a J.P. Morgan predecessor firm in 2006, managing money for wealthy families and trading for institutions.
Liz is dedicated to supporting financial literacy and educational opportunities in her industry, and has aligned her charitable and mentorship support alongside diversity and inclusion efforts to empower youth.
Hannah Young
TRUSTEE
Hannah Young is the Vice President, Special Projects at Standard Industries. Formerly the Consul General at the British Consulate General (and before that, Deputy Consul General), Hannah served Number 10 as the Prime Minister’s lead official on Home Affairs policy, a brief that covered everything from criminal justice reform to counter terrorism and immigration.
She has a background in both international and domestic policy. Previous roles include establishing and leading the International Agreements Unit within the UK’s Department for Exiting the EU, working as Senior Advisor in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, Cabinet Office roles on migration and intelligence policy, and three years as a UK diplomat in Afghanistan at the height of the conflict, capacity building for national police forces.
Romero Britto
TRUSTEE EMERITUS
Romero Britto is an international artist known for his vibrant work, which has been exhibited in galleries and museums in over 100 countries, including the Carrousel de Louvre and MuseoSoumaya. He has created public art installations for the O2 Dome in Berlin, New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, Cirque Du Soleil at Super Bowl XLI, and has been credited with the largest monumental sculpture in London’s Hyde Park history. He has also collaborated with international brands such as Audi, Bentley, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Evian, Hasbro, Hublot, and Universal Pictures. Britto has donated time, art, and resources to more than 250 charitable organizations. He holds a seat on several boards including The Prince’s Trust USA, The Best Buddies International and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. A believer in that role of an artist as an agent of positive change, Romero Britto is committed to developing and supporting the role art will continue to play in world issues.
Stephen C. Byrd
Peter Sarsby
Michael Welch OBE
Dev Pragad
Wendu Nwakanma
Victoria Gore
CEO
Victoria joined the Prince’s Trust in 2018, bringing her 20 years of strategic client and business development experience to support the Trust’s launch in the USA. More specifically, Victoria has spent most of the last decade on patron development for non-profit institutions and foundations, focusing on business growth initiatives, strategic partnerships and fundraising event management.
Prior to her work in the non-profit sector she was a Senior Vice President at Sotheby’s, primarily responsible for global client strategy of the Jewelry and Watch division, the company’s third largest revenue generator after the C.20th Fine Art Departments. She worked with the international teams to cultivate and engage new clients as well as enhance existing relationships, with the objective of increased transactional activity. In addition, she successfully planned and executed key sale-week programs for targeted clients, on a regional and global basis.
Born and educated in the United Kingdom, graduating with a Masters in History & History of Art from Edinburgh University, Victoria lives in New York City with her husband and two teenage daughters.
Alison Zayas
DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY
Alison joined the Prince’s Trust USA in January 2022 as Director of Philanthropy with over 17 years of principal and major giving, event, and strategic fundraising experience. She was previously the Director Principal Gifts and Director of Development, New York at Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign where she developed and led the New York market as well as their national $100 million growth fund.
Alison started her fundraising career in politics as the Finance Director for various re-election campaigns such as Congressman Rush D. Holt, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. She went on to become a Development Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, closing several six, seven, and eight figure gifts for various medical research priorities and hospital initiatives.
She holds a master’s degree from the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs in Public Administration, Nonprofit Management, and volunteers for various nonprofits in the Tristate area.
Fergal Lynch
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND EVENTS
Fergal joined the then Prince’s Trust in May 2012 as Director of Global Events, to plan, execute and evaluate high-profile fundraising events for The Trust in the UK – as well as managing the celebrity Ambassador team and Active events team. He previously managed Global Events for KPMG international for 12 years, creating exceptional event experiences that inspired guests & partners around the world, working directly for the International Chairmans office.
Fergal moved to New York to support King’s Trust USA as the Director of Events and Corporate Partnerships in February 2023 where he leads the Events fundraising strategy, manages multiple key partnerships, and also supports the Global Ambassador Group led by Lionel Richie.
With over 28 years of experience in event management, fundraising, and partnership creation, Fergal leverages his expertise in professional services, non-profit fundraising, and protocol for governmental and royal engagements, to create fun, engaging, and compelling events to meet the fundraising goals of The Trust across the world in order for us to empower young people to transform their lives.
The Trust was founded on the vision that every young person should have the chance to succeed – a vision that remains unchanged today.
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