The Management Board advises the Chief Executive and Keeper on the plans and strategic direction of The National Archives, providing regular reviews of performance and key risks. It is made up of the Chief Executive and Keeper (who chairs), the six executive directors and up to four non-executive directors. The Board meets monthly and meeting summaries are available online. All non-executive directors also sit on The National Archives' Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee - our main governance oversight committees.
Find details on the non-executive directors below. See the Executive team for information on The National Archives' chief executive and directors.
Mark Addison CB
Mark joined the Department of Employment in 1978 and subsequently worked in a number of central government departments, including Number 10 Downing Street, and in a range of operational and policy roles. He was the Safety Policy Director in the Health and Safety Executive, the Director of the Better Regulation Unit at the Cabinet Office and the Chief Executive of the Crown Prosecution Service. From 2001 until he left the civil service in 2006, Mark was Director General of Operations and Service Delivery for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
He has recently competed his term as Civil Service Commissioner, and is currently a Public Appointments Assessor. He is also a member of the Which? Council and a visiting professor at the Cass Business School.
Professor Lisa Jardine CBE
Professor Lisa Jardine is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters which focuses on archive-based research projects of relevance for the period 1500 to 1800. As well as being Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow of both King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. Lisa holds honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University and the Open University.
In addition to her academic posts, Professor Jardine has written a number of best-selling books. She is also a regular contributor to national newspapers and magazines, TV and radio, including writing and presenting for Radio 4's A Point of View.
Trevor Spires CBE
Trevor retired from the Royal Navy in 2009 in the rank of Rear Admiral after a career spanning leadership, management and training roles. For the last five and a half years of his career he was the chief executive of the agency providing a range of human resources support, including payroll and pensions, to all current and former members of the armed forces. Key parts of this role were the payment of £13 billion per annum in salary and pensions to a global customer base of around one million individuals and the building of effective relationships with commercial partners.
Trevor is a Non-executive Director at the Rural Payments Agency, where he chairs the agency management board, and is also Non-executive Director at Southern Health Foundation Trust and at Corps of Commissionaires Management Ltd. He is a council member at the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a member of the Prison Service Pay Review Body.
