Governance and Management
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Board of Governors
Newbold’s Board of Governors oversee the operations of the College through the approval of policies, strategies, and activities that advance Seventh-day Adventist higher education within the Trans-European Division (TED).
Members of the Board of Governors come from Unions within the TED, and include Union Presidents, Division staff, and lay members that create a Board with a variety of competences, ethnicities and a gender-balance. Through this combination of skills the Board is able to address the College’s strategic and performance-related needs, acting in its best interests, while taking account of the wider context of the TED.
The full Board of Governors meet twice a year in conjunction with the TED spring and winter meetings.
Executive Committee of the College Board of Governors
The function of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors is to act on behalf of the full Board to make decisions on regular operational matters. It reports to the Board of Governors.
The Executive Committee meet more regularly than the full Board and comprises members of the full Board who are relatively local to the College and TED offices. This allows for more regular meetings, and decisions made at these meetings are presented via the minutes of the Executive to the full Board twice yearly.
The Executive Committee meet around six times per year, between the dates of the scheduled full Board meetings.
Board of Governors
| Raafat Kamal | Trans-European Division President (Chair) |
| Dr John Baildam | Newbold College of Higher Education Principal (Secretary) |
| Dr Daniel Duda | Trans-European Division Education Director |
| Ian Sweeney | British Union Conference President (Vice-Chair) |
| Audrey Andersson | Trans-European Division Executive Secretary |
| Nenad Jepuranovic | Trans-European Division Treasurer/CFO |
| Rob de Raad | Netherlands Union Conference President |
| Aimo Helminen | Finland Union of Churches Conference President |
| Ryszard Jankowski | Polish Union Conference President |
| Patrick Johnson | Trans-European Division Prayer Ministries Director |
| Bobby Sjolader | Swedish Union of Churches Conference President |
| Victor Marley | Norwegian Union Conference President |
| Thomas Müller | Danish Union of Churches Conference President |
| Drago Mojzes | Adriatic Union Conference President |
| Ivo Käsk | Baltic Union Conference President |
| Tamas Ocsai | Hungarian Union Conference President |
| Dragan Grujicic | South-East European Union Conference |
| Emmanuel Osei | South England Conference President |
| Gina Abbequaye | British Union Conference Education Director |
| Styrkår Dramstad | Tyrifjord Junior College Principal (Norway) |
| Sophia Nicholls | South England Conference Disability Ministries Coordinator |
| Isabel Moraes | Lay Member |
| Claudette Comerasamy | Lay Member |
| Ingalill Gimbler Berglund | Lay Member |
| Ian Redfern | Lay Member |
| Judy Clements | Lay Member |
GDPR
Data Protection
We value your trust.
The College hold and process a student’s personal data for a variety of reasons, for example, to keep records, provide support to students and to also track individual academic development. We hold financial data to invoice students correctly and record payments; academic information so we can monitor progression and provide the appropriate teaching support and opportunities. Any further data we hold is in order to help and support our students, as well as fulfil our legal obligations.
We also collect and process personal data of prospective students in order to support academic suitability for admission and enable a smooth and transparent admissions process.
Newbold College of Higher Education takes the security and integrity of all the personal data it holds very seriously. Our systems are secure, and do not release information about students to any third parties outside the College unless we have a legal obligation to do so. We do not release information about students to family members or fee payers without the consent of the individual student, except in very serious emergency situations.
The handling of personal data is controlled by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and associated legislation.