TRUSTEE biographies
Edward Reed, Chair. Edward is a solicitor and Senior Advisor at Macfarlanes. Having been at Macfarlanes for over 30 years and a partner there for 22 years, he stepped down in April 2025 to focus on key client relationships. He advises internationally mobile families on their asset structuring, personal tax, estate and succession planning, wills, charity and trusts. He has an affinity for civil law and private international law issues. He is a bilingual French speaker and fluent in Italian.
Clare Barton, Vice-Chair. Clare is a solicitor whose career included working for a major City law firm and as an in-house lawyer. She has done a range of voluntary roles, including being a school governor for many years.
Father Gary Dench, Spiritual Director. Fr Gary trained for the priesthood at the Venerable English College, Rome, and was ordained in 2019. He served for five years as the Assistant Priest at Brentwood Cathedral and is presently the Parish Priest of Hutton & Shenfield in Essex. He studied Canon Law through the Catholic University of Leuven and works in the diocesan curia as the Diocesan Master of Ceremonies, Director of Liturgy and Vice-Chancellor.
Dr Aodhán Breathnach. Aodhán is a doctor who worked for many years in St George’s Hospital, London, specialising in Medical Microbiology and Infection Control. He was also a member of the St George’s Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee, and more recently he worked as a Global Health Microbiologist with the United Kingdom Health Security Agency.
Molly Conrad. Molly is Senior Consultant for Public Affairs at the social justice and faith-based consultancy, The Good Faith Partnership. Prior to joining Good Faith, Molly worked for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales in their Partnerships & Public Affairs Department. Molly is passionate about building meaningful and sustainable partnerships between parliamentarians, charitable foundations and faith communities to ensure that grassroots experts and people of faith have a voice in top-level decision-making processes.
Professor Noel Gill. Noel is an infectious disease epidemiologist and honorary professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Noel worked at the National Infectious Disease Surveillance Centre for England (1980-2020), leading the HIV and STI team.
Patrick Gillespie, Joint Safeguarding Lead. Patrick recently retired as Service Director for Health and Justice Services at Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust, concluding a distinguished career spanning more than 47 years in nursing and senior healthcare leadership. He previously served as a Mental Health Inspector at the Care Quality Commission, Hospital Director and Registered Manager at Cambian Churchill, and Service Director of the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Patrick achieved his MSc in Para Clinical Sciences at the University of Kent in 1999 and holds a Diploma in Management Studies (Health). His professional interests include collaborative practice, the development of evidence-based standards to drive change and improve clinical effectiveness, and the promotion of the social care agenda. He was awarded the Queens Nurse in 2023 in recognition of his commitment to high standards of patient and continually improving practice care.
Dr Donal O'Sullivan, Joint Safeguarding Lead. Donal has worked for almost thirty years in South East London, first as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, and more recently as a Consultant in Public Health. Donal currently teaches on the MPH course at King's College London.
Clare Barton, Vice-Chair. Clare is a solicitor whose career included working for a major City law firm and as an in-house lawyer. She has done a range of voluntary roles, including being a school governor for many years.
Father Gary Dench, Spiritual Director. Fr Gary trained for the priesthood at the Venerable English College, Rome, and was ordained in 2019. He served for five years as the Assistant Priest at Brentwood Cathedral and is presently the Parish Priest of Hutton & Shenfield in Essex. He studied Canon Law through the Catholic University of Leuven and works in the diocesan curia as the Diocesan Master of Ceremonies, Director of Liturgy and Vice-Chancellor.
Dr Aodhán Breathnach. Aodhán is a doctor who worked for many years in St George’s Hospital, London, specialising in Medical Microbiology and Infection Control. He was also a member of the St George’s Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee, and more recently he worked as a Global Health Microbiologist with the United Kingdom Health Security Agency.
Molly Conrad. Molly is Senior Consultant for Public Affairs at the social justice and faith-based consultancy, The Good Faith Partnership. Prior to joining Good Faith, Molly worked for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales in their Partnerships & Public Affairs Department. Molly is passionate about building meaningful and sustainable partnerships between parliamentarians, charitable foundations and faith communities to ensure that grassroots experts and people of faith have a voice in top-level decision-making processes.
Professor Noel Gill. Noel is an infectious disease epidemiologist and honorary professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Noel worked at the National Infectious Disease Surveillance Centre for England (1980-2020), leading the HIV and STI team.
Patrick Gillespie, Joint Safeguarding Lead. Patrick recently retired as Service Director for Health and Justice Services at Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust, concluding a distinguished career spanning more than 47 years in nursing and senior healthcare leadership. He previously served as a Mental Health Inspector at the Care Quality Commission, Hospital Director and Registered Manager at Cambian Churchill, and Service Director of the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Patrick achieved his MSc in Para Clinical Sciences at the University of Kent in 1999 and holds a Diploma in Management Studies (Health). His professional interests include collaborative practice, the development of evidence-based standards to drive change and improve clinical effectiveness, and the promotion of the social care agenda. He was awarded the Queens Nurse in 2023 in recognition of his commitment to high standards of patient and continually improving practice care.
Dr Donal O'Sullivan, Joint Safeguarding Lead. Donal has worked for almost thirty years in South East London, first as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, and more recently as a Consultant in Public Health. Donal currently teaches on the MPH course at King's College London.
