Luke Nunneley (1981, Law)

Global Head of Asset Management, WestLB AG

Luke Nunneley read Law at Downing between 1981 and 1984 but turned his back on the profession at the first available opportunity and joined N M Rothschild immediately after graduating. At Rothschild he was an international equity portfolio manager before leaving with a number of colleagues to establish HD International, a boutique asset management business, in 1987. In 1992 he left HD to become President of Fleming Canada Partners, the Canadian asset management arm of Robert Fleming, returning to London in 1996 as Global Head of Institutional Sales for Flemings. In 1998 he joined German bank WestLB and in 2001 was appointed CEO of the bank's global asset management business, which manages around $80 billion in assets for clients in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Australia.

Mike Starkie (1968, Social and Political Sciences)

Chief Accountant, BP

Mike Starkie has been Chief Accountant at BP for 11 years and prior to this did a variety of mainly financial BP jobs in the UK, Germany and Belgium. He qualified with Price Waterhouse.

Chris Bartram (1968, Land Economy)

Chairman, Orchard Street Investment Management LLP

Chris Bartram graduated from Downing with a degree in Land Economy, and went into the chartered surveying profession in London. Intially in private practice, he moved rapidly into property investment management. He founded Jones Lang Wootton's Department in Investment Management, and in 1995 became CEO of the Dutch property investment company Haslemere NV. Chris now chairs his own firm which gives property investment advice to major UK pension funds. He is also Chairman of the Bank of England Property Forum, and a past President of the British Property Federation.

Julian Childs (1969, Oriental Studies)

Executive Vice President, Dow Jones Telerate

Julian Childs read Oriental Studies at Downing from 1969-72. He then paid his £5 and achieved an MA. Julian was Captain of Boats in his final year at Downing. With his career starting in money broking and then electronic financial information, he ended up as Executive Vice President of Dow Jones Telerate in New York. He grew up in the Middle East but went to boarding school in England. Having worked in the UK, Asia-Pacific and America, he is now officially retired but still involved in some consultancy work, as an investor in start-ups and has built a small property portfolio.

Jonathan Lander (1986, Law)

CEO, Dawnay, Day Lander Ltd.

Jonathan read Law at Downing, graduating in 1989. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dawnay, Day Lander Ltd. (DDL) a technology venture capital and advisory firm. DDL manages a venture capital fund that invests principally in early-stage Internet companies. He was voted one of the UK’s top ten most influential Internet investors in a recent poll.

He is also the Chief Executive of Volvere plc, an investment company listed on AIM, chaired by the Dixons founder, Lord Kalms of Edgware. Prior to founding DDL, Jonathan spent five years at Credit Suisse First Boston and S.G.Warburg, before co-founding the Nomura Technology Group in London.

Nicholas Lewis (1974, Economics)

Chairman, Downing Corporate Finance

Nicholas Lewis is the Managing Director of Downing Corporoate Finance Ltd, a company which he founded in 1986. Prior to that he was with NatWest Ventures Ltd, and before that, with Apax Partners and Co. He is also a director of a number of Venture Capital Trusts.

Eric Coutts (1980, Law)

Managing Director, Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs

After reading law at Downing, Eric spent a year as an Assistant Lecturer in Law at Paris University II and subsequently qualified as a solicitor and worked on M&A and corporate finance transactions with Slaughter and May. He moved to Goldman Sachs in 1993 and has advised clients on range of M&A transactions in London and in Paris and is currently Co-Head of the bank's European Restructuring Group. He is a Governor of the British School of Paris and an active member of Amnesty International.

Robert John (1968, Law)

Graham Virgo (1984, Law)

Senior Tutor, Downing College

Graham Virgo is Senior Tutor of Downing College and Director of Studies in Law. He is a Reader in English law in the Faculty of Law and a door tenant of 24 Old Buildings, Lincolns' Inn. He researches in the fields of the law of Restitution, Equity and Criminal Law.

Dr Susan Lintott (1972, English)

Bursar, Downing College

Educated at Girton, Dr Lintott taught English for four years at Tufts University in the US while completing her doctorate. After studying at the New York University Stern School of Business, she joined The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York in 1983 becoming a Managing Director in Corporate Finance in 1989.

After a career break prompted by maternity leave, she became Bursar of Downing College in October 1997. She was a member of the University's watchdog the Board of Scrutiny from 1998-2002, serving as its Chairman from 2000 to 2001. She is presently the University's representative on the governing body of Christ's Hospital. She is married with two children.