Graeme Osborn (chair)

Graeme is a policy advisor at Defra, currently working on ivory policy. He previously worked for the postgraduate students’ union at the University of York, where he was responsible for managing the advice service and supporting elected student representatives. Graeme is also a Governor at Askham Bryan College, a land-based further and Higher Education College based in York. He has recently completed seven years as an External Trustee at Lancaster University Students’ Union, which included two years as Vice Chair of the Trustee Board. Previous roles include being the appointed as the Board Member with specific responsibility for the student interest at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), which was the principal sector regulator and funding body for higher education in England. Having grown up on the Isle of Man, Graeme studied politics at the University of York. He then served two years as the Academic Officer and a trustee for the University of York Students’ Union. Outside of work Graeme enjoys music and theatre, and is a member of a brass band and a choir.

Hannah Sketchley

Hannah came into the student movement in 2010 and hasn’t left yet. She currently works for NUS, having previously worked at Cambridge University Students’ Union and been an elected officer at SU UCL. She’s interested in democracy and the student movement, redistributing power in education and creating space for students and young people to organise. She fundamentally believes that teenagers will save the world, and has this reaffirmed every week when running a Girlguiding unit in South London.

Clare Powne

Clare studied at the University of Edinburgh and at University College London. She then chose to keep her first degree subject, music, as a hobby, and to make a career in libraries. She has worked in seven universities in Scotland, England and Australia where she spent 6 years at Sydney University Library in the 1990s. She was part of the senior management team at Durham University Library for 9 years, leaving in 2009 to take responsibility for library provision at Lancaster University. Since retiring from the post of Head of Library & Culture Services at the University of Exeter in 2018, she has been a Lay Trustee for Durham Students Union and also serves in the same capacity for Teesside University. Her family's connections to Durham University cross three generations; both of her parents were Durham graduates, as are her cousin, nephew and niece and their respective spouses. Clare lives in beautiful lower Teesdale in South-West County Durham, which is fine cycling country. She sometimes play the viola rather badly.

Caragh Aylett-Bullock

Caragh joined the trustee board in 2019 following her year as President of St. John’s Common Room (SJCR). She currently holds a position in the child protection team at the United Nations Department of Peace Operations. Prior to this, she researched children’s rights and climate change at the office of the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland. She is interested in charity governance, empowering student leaders and building relationships across student groups. She holds an LLM in Human Rights from Edinburgh University and a BA in Theology and History from Durham University. Outside of work, Caragh can be found trying out new running routes or perfecting the latest Ottolenghi recipe. 

Dan Lonsdale

Skye Carroll

Freddy Fossey-Warren

William Brown

Deborah Acheampong

Anna Robinson

Dylan Jones 

Ben Thomas 

Haf Serajee