Board of Governors

Meet Newbold’s Board of Governors that oversees the operations of the College through the approval of policies, strategies and activities.

About the Board of Governors

Newbold’s Board of Governors seeks to 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 to 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 meets twice a year in conjunction with the TED spring and winter meetings.

Current Board of Governors

Raafat Kamal
Chair (Trans-European Division President)

Ian Sweeney
Vice-Chair (British Union Conference President)

Dr John Baildam
Secretary (Newbold College of Higher Education Principal)

Wim Altink
Member (Netherlands Union Conference President)

Audrey Andersson
Member (Trans-European Division Executive Secretary)

Kalervo Aromäki
Member (Finland Union of Churches President)

Claudette Comerasamy
Member (Lay member)

Richard de Lisser
Member (South England Conference President)

Dr Daniel Duda
Member (Trans-European Division Education Director)

Styrkår Dramstad
Member (Lay member)

Jaroslaw Dziegielewski
Member (Polish Union Conference President)

Ingalill Gimbler
Member (Lay member)

Göran Hansen
Member (Swedish Union of Churches Conference President)

Kathleen Hanson
Member (British Union Conference Education Director)

Victor Hulbert
Member (Trans-European Division Director of Media Missions)

Nenad Jepuranović
Member (Trans-European Division Treasurer)

Patrick Johnson
Member (Trans-European Division Ministerial Association Secretary)

Reidar Johansen Kvinge
Member (Norwegian Union Conference President)

Isabel de Moraes
Member (Lay member)

Thomas Müller
Member (Danish Union of Churches Conference President)

Drago Mojzeš
Member (Adriatic Union President)

David Nömmik
JMember (Baltic Union Conference President)

Sophia Nicholls
Member (South England Conference Disability Ministries Coordinator)

Tamas Ócsai
Member (Hungarian Union Conference President)

Robert Rearce
Member (Lay member)

Ian Redfern
Member (Lay member)

Berton Samuel
Member (Lay member)

Djordje Trajkovski
Member (South-East European Union Conference President)

Carsten Waern
Member (Lay member)

About the 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 meets 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 meets around six times per year, between the dates of the scheduled full Board meetings.

List of the current membership of the Executive Committee of the College Board of Governors