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The impact of your support
Mr Guy Hands (PPE, 1978)
and Mrs Julia Hands MBE
Julia Hands is an entrepreneur, hotelier and philanthropist. After studying Classics and Law at Cambridge, she joined Linklaters & Paines and qualified as a solicitor in 1986, remaining with
the firm until 1996. Julia is Chair and CEO of Hand Picked Hotels, 19 unique country house hotels across the UK and Channel Islands. She won the Tourism & Leisure business sector in the First Women Awards in 2005, organised by the CBI and Real Business magazine. In 2008 Julia was awarded an MBE for services to the hospitality industry. Guy Hands is Chairman and Founder of Terra Firma, one of Europe’s leading private equity firms. He started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Global Asset Structuring Group. Guy left Goldman Sachs in 1994 for Nomura International plc, where he established the Principal Finance Group (PFG). PFG went on to undertake groundbreaking deals involving trains, housing and pubs. In 2002, he led the spin-out of PFG to form Terra Firma. Guy was elected a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000 in recognition of his achievements. In 2012, he was named the 20th most influential figure in Private Equity International’s ‘100 Most Influential of the Decade’.
Guy and Julia have been important supporters of our College for
many years. Guy was the President and lead benefactor of ‘Access
to Excellence’, Mansfield’s initiative to promote the broadest possible access to higher education in the UK. More recently, Guy and Julia’s
lead gift founded the Hands Building, our beautiful new student accommodation building and home to the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, opened in 2018. The couple also initiated Mansfield’s prestigious annual Hands Lecture. Guy and Julia are members of the University of Oxford Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors as well as Fellows of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. They have four children.
Sir Joseph Hotung
Joseph Hotung is a successful businessman, philanthropist, and knowledgeable collector of Chinese art. Born in China, schooled in Shanghai and Tianjin, he completed his education in the USA and UK. He subsequently received an LLB from the University of London. Having initially
taken up employment in Marine Midland Bank, Joseph started his own business in Hong Kong and later became a Director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd and HSBC Holdings. Throughout his career, Joseph has actively participated in public and community affairs in Hong Kong and in London. Among his many and varied positions, he has acted as Council Member at the University of Hong Kong and served as Chairman of the Arts Development Council, Hong Kong and as a member of the SOAS Governing Body. Joseph has served on boards or committees of several major international museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where he is now Trustee Emeritus and a Life Fellow; and the British Museum where he made possible the construction of a number of new galleries, including the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia opened by Her
Majesty the Queen in 2017. In Hong Kong Joseph served as a member of the Judicial Services Commission and on the Inland Revenue Board of Review. He funded the Sir Joseph Hotung Programme for Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East at SOAS, University of London. At Mansfield, Joseph’s superlative support has founded the College’s new lecture theatre, opened in 2018 and named in his honour.
Mr Harry Leventis
Harry Leventis has been involved, throughout his career, in the management of a number of companies in the AG Leventis group based in Nigeria and in the United Kingdom. He is
a Trustee of the AG Leventis Foundation. Harry personally supported Mansfield College’s Love Lane capital
campaign, establishing the Gilly Leventis Room within the new Hands Building. The AG Leventis Foundation’s generous grants
to the University of Oxford include support for the Ashmolean Museum, where they have funded the AG Leventis Gallery for Cyprus, a curatorial post for the Cypriot collections, an exhibition on Heracles, and the Department of Antiquities. The Foundation has also supported the Theology Faculty, the Faculty of History, Merton College, Balliol College, St Peter’s College, St Antony’s College,
and Oxford Philomusica (now the Oxford Philharmonic). As well as being a Bancroft Fellow of Mansfield College, Harry represents the AG Leventis Foundation on the University of Oxford’s Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors and he is a Fellow of the Ashmolean Museum.
Sir Paul Ruddock FSA
(Jurisprudence, 1977)
Paul Ruddock is Chair of Oxford University Endowment Management and Chair of the Oxford University Investment Committee. A leading philanthropist to the arts and education
in the UK and internationally, he is closely involved with numerous major museums and galleries, as well as education and charitable institutions. He was knighted in 2012 for Services to the Arts and Philanthropy. Paul is co-founder of Lansdowne Partners from which he retired as CEO
in 2013. He is now Director of the international arm of the company and a limited partner of Lansdowne Partners LLP. Paul was Chairman
of the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) for two terms. He is a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Co-Chair of its International Council, as well as holding numerous other trusteeships for UK arts and heritage organisations and ambassadorships for charities. His philanthropy includes major support for the V&A; the British Museum; the Courtauld Institute; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; and King Edward’s School, Birmingham. He has also supported
the Ashmolean Museum; Bowdoin College, Maine (with his wife, Lady Ruddock); the Ethiopian Heritage Fund; the Donmar Warehouse and the Almeida Theatre. Paul’s generous donations to Mansfield College have helped create the Garden Building, supported our 125th Anniversary campaign, and include gifts of works of art. In 2019, he established the Mansfield Ruddock Prize for the Arts, for a student at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art. One of our earliest recipients of the honour, Paul was made a Bancroft Fellow at Mansfield in 2008.
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