Meet the trustees
Margaret Evison is Mark’s mother and Executive Trustee of the Foundation. She is a consultant clinical psychologist with a long experience of developing support services within the NHS and has always worked closely with patients from all backgrounds and in many situations. She is very interested in individual development.
Elizabeth Evison is Mark’s sister: they were very close. She is quieter and more bookish, much less prone to physical exertion. However Mark and the Foundation have since inspired her to more adventurous pursuits, such as running a half marathon for the Foundation in 2010. She is now a civil servant.
Georgie Speller is the Director of Sixth Form at the West London Free School and has worked with the Mark Evison Foundation for a number of years at WLFS, and at her previous Sixth Form in Camden. Georgie believes strongly in the mission of the MEF, not least because she has seen the impact of completing a challenge on the confidence and development of the young adults in her care, and her experience of working in busy schools will hopefully be useful to the MEF in expanding its reach and developing its offer.
Amy Zambon is a Senior Leader at the City of London Academy, Highgate Hill (COLAHH) and oversees the development of its Sixth Form (Islington Collegiate Sixth Form). Amy currently serves a governor at Newham Collegiate Sixth Form and is an advisor to Speakers for Schools. Amy is passionate about students pursuing their academic and non-academic passions and has recently launched the MEF at COLAHH.
David Harris (Former Captain, 1WG) attended King’s College London, after which he went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and joined the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards with Mark in early 2008. Mark was an inspiring and close friend through ceremonial, adventure and operational training across Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. They both deployed together to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in April 2009 as Platoon Commanders. David is now Managing Director at Cadarn Capital having previously worked for Frostrow Capital and Morgan Stanley on leaving the British Army in early 2011.
Dr Joe Spence FRSA was Master of Dulwich College from 2009 to 2024 and is CEO of the School Partnerships Alliance. In June 2024, he was awarded Tes Headteacher of the Year (Independent), the citation drawing particular attention to his promotion of partnership projects. He was Headmaster of Oakham School from 2002, having previously taught history and politics at Eton College, where he was also Master in College (housemaster to the King’s Scholars).
Under Joe’s leadership, Dulwich developed a number of mutually-beneficial independent-state school partnerships, promoted national SCITT programmes and supported Saturday Schools for primary school children in Science, the Arts and Mathematics. He is Co-Director of the Southwark Schools’ Learning Partnership, an alliance of 18 state and independent schools.
Joe has been a governor of more than a dozen state and independent schools. A trustee of the Mark Evison Foundation, Art History Link Up and the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, he is also a playwright and the librettist.
Ian Macauslan works on education and human development. He led the education portfolio at Oxford Policy Management, an international development consulting firm, and then worked as an education adviser at the British Embassy Yangon for the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office. He is now a partner in Human Development at Genesis Analytics, a South African consulting firm advising governments and private companies.
Lucien Mulberg won the Mark Evison award in 2018 and is now a freshly graduated physicist from the University of Oxford. Lucien really values the experience he gained biking up Alpe d’Huez for the Mark Evison award and is keen that as many students get a chance to apply for the award as possible.
All trustees are unpaid.