John Amis
John Amis' varied life in the world of sound has enabled him to become one of radio and television's favourite music presenters and performers; he was the 'symphony' man in the long running radio show 'My Music'. Five and a half weeks in a bank determined him to have a go at earning a living in music. He managed orchestras, organised the Dartington Summer School for a quarter of a century and had his own radio and television shows.

Dr Charles Anderson
A professional marine biologist with seven marine life guide books and numerous scientific papers to his credit, Charles has lived and worked in the Maldives since 1983, mostly with the Maldivian Marine Research Centre. An all-round naturalist, he is particularly interested in whales and dolphins of the Indian Ocean, while his experience as a diver and underwater photographer has involved him in several underwater film productions for the BBC including The Blue Planet. Charles is a proud winner of the President of Maldives Award for Services to Fisheries in 1995, the only non-Maldivian ever to receive the accolade. He is married to Sue with a son, Robert.

Dame Margaret Anstee
The first woman UN Under-Secretary General, Dame Margaret has had an adventurous life, heading programmes on development, disaster relief, narcotic drugs, and peacekeeping. She has lived in a dozen countries and visited over 130.

Graham Archer CMG KSTJ
A former British Diplomat, Graham’s career took him around the world with postings in Europe and the Mediterranean. He is a former High Commissioner of Malta and a Knight of the Venerable Order of St John. A regular speaker, he is currently a deputy chairman of the English National Trust south-east region, and a member of the Central Committee of the Royal Overseas League in London and Chairman of the League Current Affairs Group.

Michael Arditti
Michael Arditti has a broad knowledge of culture, history and religion. He worked for many years as a theatre critic for the Evening Standard, is a literary critic for The Independent and the Daily Mail and regularly broadcasts on the arts for the BBC. His latest novel, A Sea Change, was published in September 2006.

Simon Bainbridge
Simon read Classics at Oxford and then spent many years as a bookseller in London. He first visited the Mediterranean on a school trip to Italy and Greece in 1964 and has been returning ever since, Italy being his particular passion. He has also visited many parts of Europe as a member of the London Symphony Chorus, most recently Thessaloníki, Rome and Cesena.

Richard Baker OBE, RD
After studying at Cambridge University, Richard served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, before becoming the BBC’s longest-serving newsreader. In 1979 he was honoured with an OBE for services to broadcasting. He received the Newscaster of the Year award three times and was Variety Club’s radio personality of the year in 1984.

Professor Ian Beckett
Ian is a Professor of History at the University of Northampton. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is also Chairman of the Army Records Society. He has taught in both British and American universities and has published widely on international and military history in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the British Army and its campaigns. He reviews regularly for The Times Literary Supplement as well as for many academic journals.

Martin Biddle
Archaeologist and historian Martin Biddle has lectured on six continents and excavated in England, Egypt, Israel and Jordan. He has been a guest speaker on cruise ships on an annual basis since 1974, speaking on the archaeology and history of sites in areas from Italy to the Levant, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Fenella Billington
Fenella graduated in History of Art, and as a Liverywoman of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, took its’ history as the subject of her Master’s degree. A lecturer for NADFAS, she has also lectured at the University of Liverpool since 1992 and has contributed to members’ understanding of Caravaggio, Bernini, Isabella d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia and Andrea Palladio. She also has a keen interest in mosaics.

The Rt Hon Baroness Boothroyd, O.M.
Betty Boothroyd came to the House of Commons as an MP in 1973, having begun her career at Westminster as the personal assistant to three leading Labour figures. She was elected Speaker in 1997, winning cross-party support as the first woman, and the first backbench MP, to hold this office. Born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, Betty Boothroyd has been Chancellor of the Open University since 1994, and has received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews universities. In 2005, she was awarded the Order of Merit by H M The Queen. During eight years as Madam Speaker, she met world leaders and travelled the world, publishing her autobiography in 2001.

Dr Alan Borg CBE, FSA
Dr Alan Borg CBE FSA is a leading authority on history and art history. The former director of the Imperial War and Victoria & Albert museums, Alan oversaw the opening of the Cabinet War Rooms and carried out a redisplay of the V&A’s entire British galleries.

Christopher Bradley
Christopher Bradley is a prolific travel writer and scriptwriter, contributing to numerous travel guides including the Berlitz Guide to Libya, and Intrepid Africa. His many travels have taken him around the world where he has worked variously as photographer, filmmaker for the BBC, Tour Leader and guide. His images have been used by the Royal Geographical Society, the V&A Museum, most of the broadsheets, academic institutions and tour operators. Christopher is also a NADFAS Speaker.

Dr Robert Bradnock
Having been Head of the Department of Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Dr Bradnock has published numerous books and papers focusing on geopolitics, environment and development. He speaks and writes on topics ranging from the geopolitics of South Asia to climate change and the evolution of landscape.

Dr Rupert Bursell
Dr Bursell has travelled extensively and lectured on cruise ships. He was called to the bar and also ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1968 and has successfully combined both professions ever since, being widely recognised as a top ecclesiastical lawyer. Rupert took silk in 1986 and is also the Diocesan Chancellor for the Dioceses of Durham and Oxford.

Humphrey Burton CBE
BBC Television’s first Head of Music and Arts, Humphrey Burton CBE has had a rich and varied career at the forefront of the arts. A seasoned television and radio presenter who has hosted Omnibus and Young Musician of the Year, Humphrey has directed Bernstein, Karajan and many other great classical musicians, and is also a published biographer.

Michael Buerk
Michael Buerk has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist. He has presented BBC Television’s flagship news programme, The Ten O’clock News, and the peak time BBC1 programme ‘999’. Apart from broadcasting he lectures on international issues and environmental matters and chair conferences on current affairs, political and industrial subjects.

Pat Cannings
A keen naturalist, specialising in wildflowers and ornithology, an experienced mountaineer and skier, Pat has lead many Arctic expeditions. Devonian by birth and upbringing, Pat graduated from the University of Bangor with a degree in Botany, Zoology and Oceanography and was a senior science teacher for almost 30 years. He currently lives in Hereford with his wife Janet, where they are keen gardeners and totally self-sufficient in vegetables. Pat regularly guides on Hebridean Princess.

Dr Peter Cattermole
Dr Cattermole, formerly a lecturer in volcanology and planetary geology at the University of Sheffield and principal investigator with NASA’s Planetary Geology and Physics Programme, is now a freelance lecturer, writer and leader of specialist scientific tours. He has appeared regularly on BBC TV’s Sky at Night.

Roy Clare
Roy Clare has been Director of the National Maritime Museum, including the Queen's House and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, since 2000, having previously served in the Royal Navy for over 30 years in operations all over the world. Active in maritime heritage for 20 years, he now promotes the development of leaders in museums, galleries and libraries. A keen yachtsman, who has competed in yacht races in the UK and abroad, Roy and his family live on the east coast of Essex.

Graham Clarke
Educated at Beckenham Art School and the Royal College of Art where he graduated in 1964, author, illustrator and humorist Graham Clarke is one of Britain’s most popular and best-selling print makers. He has established a widely successful reputation for his arched top etchings and his works are held by both Royal and public collections.

Sir Edward Clay
Sir Edward Clay has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the diplomatic service, joining the Foreign Office after his graduation from Oxford. His first and last overseas postings were both in Kenya, where he was British High Commissioner until 2005. He is a Volunteer Trustee of, among others, the Leonard Cheshire Foundation and the Constant Gardener Trust.

Mark Corby
A member of the Institute of Classical Studies and the Royal Archaeological Institute, Mark has been a freelance historian for the last five years and lectures for the National Association for Design & Fine Art Societies as well as the Institute of Archaeology. He has been a guest lecturer and historical guide on several foreign adventures, notably to Spain, France, Italy and the USA. He is also a researcher and presenter of TV historical documentaries.

Nicholas Courtney
Nicholas is an author, lecturer and broadcaster, whose works have included Gale Force 10, an award-winning biography of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. He has sailed the length of the Mediterranean, his enduring love affair with the coast of Croatia having begun over 30 years ago.

Dr Phillip Cribb
Dr Cribb studied at Cambridge and Birmingham. He currently holds an honorary fellowship at Kew and has participated in many expeditions to study plants in the field, especially in the tropics of Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. He is author and co-author of over 400 scientific papers and is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society Orchid Committee and the International Orchid Commission, and was formerly chair of IUCN, the World Conservation Union.

Harley and Barbara Crossley
A professional artist for over 30 years and member of the Fine Art Guild, Harley Crossley paints in oils using knives and is Britain’s acknowledged expert. His large paintings of ships and dock scenes are much sought after by collectors worldwide. Harley lives in rural Dorset, where he devotes his time to studio work and lecturing on maritime history. Barbara Crossley offers interesting craft workshops.

John Ducker
John pursues a double career as actor John Leeson and an informed wine teacher, accredited by the Wine and Spirit Educational Trust. John is also a member of the Association of Wine Educators, whose professional task is ‘to inform, educate and inspire the general public on the subject of wines’. He teaches courses run by the Wine Education Service Ltd in London and lectures widely. John has been a tasting judge at the International Wine Challenge run by WINE magazine.

Dr Joanna Durbin
Dr Joanna Durbin is Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Madagascar Programme Director and has been working in Madagascar for over 15 years. Durrell Wildlife was founded by author and naturalist Gerald Durrell over 40 years ago with a mission to save species worldwide. Species that have been pulled back from the brink include the kestrel and pink pigeon in Mauritius and the ploughshare tortoise in Madagascar. Durrell Wildlife is working to conserve endemic animals at seven sites around Madagascar, seeking ways to safeguard Madagascar’s unique biodiversity and address the interests of local people.

Tim Earl
A top wildlife tour leader with a special interest in marine life, Tim is an international lecturer who has travelled extensively on most continents. A journalist with the Guernsey Evening Press for 20 years, he still writes their fortnightly bird watching column and is author of several books on the Channel Islands, including A Field Guide to the Birds of Guernsey. A member and past president of the Rotary Club of Guernsey, Tim has also taught an adult night-class in ornithology for 23 years.

Mike Everett
Mike worked for the RSPB for 39 years in conservation ornithology and has travelled widely in Europe and the Middle East, Africa and Canada. He has written several books and is a regular contributor to ornithological journals. Mike has led many bird-walking tours, and his expertise extends to reptiles, amphibians, mammals and butterflies.

Royston Ellis
Born and educated at Pinner, Royston left school with ambitions to be a writer, publishing his first book of poetry two years later. His literary pursuits continued as he set off at the age of 20 on travels to Moscow and the Canary Islands. Settling in Dominica from 1966 to 1980, he wrote The Bondmaster series of historical novels and showed an active interest in cricket. Royston moved to Sri Lanka in 1980, where he lives in a cottage overlooking the Indian Ocean. His recent works include guidebooks, biographies, novels and travel features with AP photographer Gemunu Amarasinghe.

Dr. Katherine Frank
Dr. Frank was a university lecturer before becoming a fulltime writer and biographer. She is widely travelled and has lived and lectured in Africa. Her topics are history and politics and her current project is a book about the real-life castaways who inspired Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’.

Baroness Dorothea Friesen
Born in Vienna, Dory studied Anthropology. From University of Pennsylvania, she went to work for the United Nations in New York. Married to an American diplomat, Dory spent 10 years in South America and the Caribbean. After her husband’s death, she married Baron Bernard Friesen, with whom she lives in London and on Mallorca. Multilingual, for the last 15 years Dory has been a tour leader in regions as diverse as Malaysia and the Antarctic.

Dr David Gee
After leaving Oxford, where he read Modern History, David Gee took up a post at Shrewsbury School, where he has been Housemaster of two of the houses and head of the History and Divinity Departments, still teaching in retirement. He carried out educational research in the United States and six European countries for his Doctorate and was subsequently a visiting professional at Rollins College, Florida, during a period of sabbatical leave from Shrewsbury.

Ron Gerlach
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Ron Gerlach showed an early interest in natural history. He first worked in the Seychelles in 1968 as a civil engineer, later becoming a full-time artist, specialising in batik art and bird-life painting. He married Gill in 1970 and has a son, Justin. They returned to the Seychelles permanently in 1988 after spending 10 years between Malham and Marbella. Founder and Chairman of the Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Seychelles Island Foundation, Ron moved from Mahé to Silhouette in 1997, where he runs the Silhouette Conservation Project with his wife and travels widely.

Sir David Goodall
After travelling the world in the Diplomatic service, David Goodall became Deputy Secretary of Thatcher’s cabinet office, helping negotiate the Anglo-Irish 1985 agreement. He was then made British High Commissioner of India and later, Chairman of Leonard Cheshire.Today he is a lecturer, author of two books and keen watercolourist.

Nicholas Hammond & Yvonne Glenister Hammond SBA
Nick Hammond has written 12 books on natural history including four on wildlife in art, a subject on which he is a leading authority. For many years the editor of the RSPB magazine Birds and today the director of a Wildlife Trust. His wife, Yvonne, specialises in botanical painting, and will be happy to offer tuition during the day.

Mike Harvey
Mike is an experienced international speaker and a member of Chatham House, Britain’s leading foreign policy think-tank. His wife Brenda is a popular designer whose work appears regularly in ‘Crafts Beautiful’. Her workshops include handcrafted cards, jewellerymaking and silk work.

Keith Haskell
Keith spent 38 years in the diplomatic service including 12 years in the Middle East and a further 12 in South America, where he was successively Ambassador to Peru and Brazil. He speaks fluent Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French. Since retirement in 1999 he has worked as a consultant on international affairs and has lectured extensively.

Carola Hicks
Dr Carola Hicks’ research and writing are concerned with the decorative arts. Specific areas include the earlier Medieval art of the British Isles and its animal imagery and stained glass. She has edited and contributed to several works on these subjects. Her latest book is The Bayeux Tapestry: Life Story of a Masterpiece.

Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes is Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham. He has written 20 books and is the general editor of The Oxford Companion of Military History. He has also presented seven BBC 2 series including In the Footsteps of Churchill (2005). Professor Holmes is actively associated with a number of societies and recently rode from Liverpool to York following the path of Prince Rupert’s army in the 1644 Marston Moor campaign to raise funds for the Army Benevolent Fund.

Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt is a UK heritage consultant who has nourished an interest in Mediterranean and Near-East civilisations, architecture and decorative arts through extensive travel and study. Formerly Chief Executive of South West Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and now trustee of several heritage societies, he has accompanied cruises in the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and around Britain.

Captain John Hutchinson
Born in India, John joined the Royal Air Force in 1955, completing his flying training in Canada. Joining BOAC in 1966, he converted to Concorde and qualified as a captain in 1977, remaining with the fleet until his retirement from BA in 1992. A BBC TV air show presenter and an aviation expert of worldwide repute, John has also lectured on cruise ships. His other interests include SCUBA, photography, wildlife and travel. Married to Susan since 1958, the couple have a son Christopher.

Nigel Jacques
Nigel Jacques is a retired schoolmaster who taught for most of his career at Eton, where he was also a Housemaster. His main subjects were Latin, Greek and History of Art. Nigel has escorted parties to the Mediterranean over many years and has a particular fondness for Italy, which he visits whenever he can.

Dr Amin Jaffer
Dr Jaffer is a curator in the Department of Asian Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, specialising in Indian art in the age of European influence, an interest driven by its extensive collections. Author of Furniture from British India and Ceylon and Luxury Goods from India, he was co-curator of the V&A’s highly acclaimed 2004 exhibition, Encounters: the Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800. His forthcoming book, Made for Maharajas: a Design Diary of Princely India pursues the theme through the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Dr Jaffer lectures frequently worldwide and contributes regularly to journals and major newspapers.

Tim Jeal
Tim has written three classic biographies: ‘Livingstone’, ‘Baden-Powell’, and ‘Stanley’, named by the Sunday Times as ‘Biography of the Year’ (2007). He is also a novelist, and a former winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

Pamela Kay
Pamela first exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition as a student and has done so almost every year since then. She is a successful painter, with 35 years of solo and mixed exhibitions in London and abroad. She will offer tuition on board.

Dr Christopher Kelly
Christopher read classics and law at the University of Sydney in Australia before taking his doctorate at Trinity College, Cambridge. While a graduate student, he was also President of the Union Society. He stayed at Cambridge and is now a Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Corpus Christi College. He has a particular interest in the rise and fall of empires, colonialism and the history of religion, especially in the ancient world.

Nicolas Kenyon
Nicholas read History at Balliol College, Oxford and worked for the BBC Music Department while working as a freelance writer, including the prestigious BBC Proms, before joining The New Yorker as a music critic from 1972–1982. In 1992 he was appointed Controller of BBC Radio 3. He has been published widely, both as an author and a co-editor. In 2001 he was awarded a CBE for his services to music and millennium broadcasting.

Dr Steven Kershaw
After becoming a Classics tutor, Steve Kershaw led University study tours to Greece,Turkey and Italy. He has travelled the Mediterranean extensively, made numerous appearances on radio and television and recently published A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths.A lively and experienced speaker, he is also an internationally renowned jazz musician.

Baard Kolltveit
As an MA graduate in Maritime History in 1969, Baard began his career as a curator, serving from 1985 to 2001 as Director of the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Oslo, where he is currently Head of Research. With a dozen books and monographs on ships and seafaring to his credit, many illustrated by himself, Baard is among Norway’s most prolific maritime historians. Lecturing on cruise ships in his spare time for over 40 years, he met his wife Kari on the Norwegian Coastal Express line, cruising the world together ever since.

Lady Sophie Laws
Having read Theology at Oxford , Lady Laws taught at Leeds University and King’s College London. Currently an Academic Dean and Head of Humanities at Regent’s College London, she has a research interest in Christianity and the Roman Empire, extending to an interest in Byzantium and the social history of the classical world. Sophie Laws also teaches courses on Roman Britain, Saxon England, Medieval Church England and the relationship between religion and architecture.

Sandy Leckie
Having worked for several years in industry, Sandy took a change of direction in 1994, setting up his own business, now known as The Wine Education Service Limited. His aim was to train new entrants to the wine trade as well as consumers and organise tastings for wine clubs and social groups, corporate hospitality events and wine tours. Well-qualified in his field, Sandy also travels widely to update his knowledge of wines.

Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith
Educated at Oxford, Sir Michael obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy for his work on the Greek occupation of Asia Minor after the First World War. He was a member of the British Diplomatic Service for 30 years serving in Moscow, Paris, Athens and Warsaw and as an Ambassador to Poland and Greece in the 1990’s. Since retiring he has written and lectured extensively on Greek history and culture, and has published four books including The Great Island; A study of Crete. He is currently working on a political biography. Sir Michael, among many other memberships, is a Vice-President of the British School at Athens and a patron of the Friends of Mount Athos.

Maggie McNie
Maggie originally trained as an actress, but in 1980 she became a wine buyer for a UK hotel chain, then Malmaison Wine Club, and a Master of Wine in 1986. She has since worked as a consultant, writer, speaker and educator.

Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray has spent most of his career in the Foreign Office, and Latin America featured prominently in his postings. Andrew lived in Argentina in the 1970s,Venezuela in the 1980s and Uruguay in 1998-2001, where he was HM Ambassador.

James Naughtie
James has been a presenter of Radio 4's Today programme since February 1994. He is also a documentary maker, journalist and author, and chairs Radio 4's monthly Bookclub. His recent book, The Making of Music, explores the evolution, drama and mystery of music.

Dr Catherine Oakes
An art historian with a background in Museum Education (The Victoria & Albert Museum) and academic art history, Dr Oakes currently holds an academic post at Oxford. Cathy Oakes has published work on Romanesque art and architecture and aspects of Christian Iconography in the Middle Ages. She has lectured widely in Europe and the United States for universities and private organisations, including NADFAS.

Jeremy Paterson
Jeremy Paterson is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He has studied at Oxford and in Rome and his interests include the history and archaeology of the Classical and Mediterranean world. He is also an expert in the ancient wine trade. Jeremy currently chairs ‘Minimus’, a project to introduce Latin into primary schools.

Sir Richard Parsons KCMG
A former diplomat who has worked in five continents, Sir Richard has been Ambassador to Spain, Sweden and Hungary. He is also a novelist and playwright and has been a Governor of the Sadler’s Wells Trust and Chairman of the Ruskin Foundation.

Dr Anthony Phillips
Anthony was born and raised in Cornwall, where he qualified as a solicitor. After practising briefly, he read theology at King’s College, London, serving as Dean, Chaplain and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Chaplain and Fellow of St John’s College Oxford, teaching Old Testament Studies, and from 1986 until retirement in 1996, as Headmaster of The King’s School, Canterbury. Married with three children, Anthony is a writer and has also worked in radio and television.

David Shepherd
David is well known internationally as one of the world's leading wildlife artists. Prolific in output as a painter and brimful of stories and anecdotes, he is also a passionate conservationist and fund raiser for his wildlife foundation.

Michael Smith
Michael specialises in landscape study and has travelled widely in Europe, Africa, North America and on the Indian subcontinent. He has published on a wide range of subjects from geomorphology and palaeontology to historical geography and Rudyard Kipling. A frequent radio and television broadcaster, he is now semi-retired and lectures for the National Trust and local societies.

Andrew Stuart
Andrew has excelled at many careers, including Barrister, Colonial Administrator, Uganda High Court Judge, Diplomat and Ambassador to Finland. He worked in Uganda before Idi Amin’s rule and also headed FCO departments in the Indian Ocean.

Sir Roy Strong
British arts’ curator, historian, writer, broadcaster and garden designer, Sir Roy makes the perfect companion for a Hebridean cruise. His acclaimed book, ‘The Laskett’, records the creation of his own garden of the same name. He regularly entertains our guests with his candid assessments of both artists and politicians.

Patrick Taylor
A committee member of the Royal Horticultural Society Library, Patrick is a respected writer and photographer specialising in garden design and history, published widely in the press, with over a dozen books to his credit. He has recently worked on an encyclopaedic book on British Gardens for Dorling Kindersley and serves as General Editor of the Oxford Companion to the Garden. A well-versed speaker, Patrick lives with his wife Caroline in rural south Somerset.

John Trenouth
John has played a significant role in television production throughout his career, beginning with the development of production training packages for ITN and the BBC and later helping to rebuild Uganda’s televison station after the deposition of Idi Amin. In 1986 he became the Science Musuem’s first Head of Television, and for 20 years built a collection for the renowned National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford.

Sir John Ure
Sir John served as a British Ambassador in countries as diverse as Cuba, Brazil and Sweden. He has also written a number of travel books and was co-author of the Royal Geographical Society’s ‘History of the World Exploration’. He is one of Hebridean Spirit guests’ favourite lecturers.

Murray Walker OBE
“And it’s into the chicane!” The unmistakable voice of British motorsport Murray Walker accompanied TV coverage of Formula One racing from 1949 until his retirement in 2001. Now Murray Walker will accompany you on Hebridean Spirit to the Monaco Grand Prix, giving you his own entertaining insight into this thrilling sport.

Bruce Wannell
Bruce Wannell read Modern Languages at Oxford, but his travels in Iran and Afghanistan stirred an interest in the Iranian and Islamic world. He leads tour parties to India, Africa and the Middle East, writes knowledgeably on Islamic Mysticism and works as a translator and researcher for William Darymple.

Joanna Weld-Forester
Working for many years in the European Ceramic Department at Sotheby’s, Joanna has lectured extensively throughout the UK for NADFAS and runs Ceramic Study Days with her husband, a Sotheby’s expert. She started a young NADFAS Group (Young Arts) in 1998 from which she has just retired as Chairman.

Dr Arabella Woodrow
Dr Woodrow has worked in the wine business since 1979, becoming a Master of Wine in 1986. She has a wealth of experience of wines from all corners of the world, with a respected palate. She represented Oxford against Cambridge in the annual Varsity Tasting Match. In the course of her work she frequently presents lectures and wine tastings on a topic, which cannot be gleaned from books. She currently lives in Scotland where she is expanding her knowledge of malt whisky.