College Governance and Finance

Professor Gareth Austin became the Director of Research at King's in April 2025.

Stephen Cherry is Dean of Chapel at King’s College Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the College and Director of Studies in Theology. A priest in the Church of England, Stephen was previously Director of Ministry the Diocese of Durham and a Residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral. Before that he was a parish priest in Loughborough for 12 years. Stephen has written a number of books in recent years including Unforgivable? Exploring the Limits of Forgiveness (2024) and Healing Agony: Reimagining Forgiveness (2012). He has a PhD and first degree in theology and a BSc in Psychology. He has a practical interest in inter-faith relations.

Ivan Collister joined King's in 2022 as First Bursar, one of the posts created by the Founder's Statutes for King's College in 1446. His research interests include labour history, electoral politics, and the history of social policy in modern Britain.

Lorraine Headen has served as the College's Development Director since 2016.

Lorraine has overseen the transformative King’s Campaign, enabling the College to encourage and support the brightest students from all backgrounds, and to deliver more world-class teaching and research.  

Dr Hill is the Senior Tutor at King’s College; she oversees the educational and pastoral life of the College.  Before taking on this role Myfanwy was a full time academic with research interests in brain stem cells.  In particular, she worked on regeneration of injury in the brain and spinal cord.  Myfanwy is also a qualified veterinary surgeon treating companion animals.  Alongside being Senior Tutor, she teaches Medical, Veterinary and Natural Sciences students.

Key Publications:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7025879/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35926475/

Daniel Hyde has been Director of Music at King’s College, Cambridge since 2019. As well as directing the world-famous choir in daily services, he regularly conducts concerts and broadcasts at home and abroad. Born in the UK, schooled as a chorister at Durham Cathedral, he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists at the age of 17 and won the organ scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge; upon graduation he took up the position of Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge.

In 2009, he became Informator Choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was also an Associate Professor. In 2016 Daniel became Organist and Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City. In September 2024 he became Musical Director of City of London Choir, alongside his commitments at King’s.

As a conductor, Daniel has worked with many of the world’s leading ensembles including the BBC Singers, the London Bach Choir, Britten Sinfonia, Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra of St Luke’s and New York Baroque Incorporated.

As an organist, he has performed throughout the world. Regular appearances include at the BBC Proms including his solo debut performing Bach’s Canonic Variations at the organ of the Royal Albert Hall in 2010. In 2021 he was concerto soloist at the First Night of the Proms. As an ensemble player he has appeared extensively with the likes of Phantasm, the Britten Sinfonia, The Tallis Scholars, Aurora Orchestra, and Gabrieli Consort. Daniel’s varied discography can be found on the King’s, Opus Arte, Linn, Naxos, EMI and Priory labels.

Polly Ingham joined King's in October 2023 as Domus Bursar, which oversees the College's buildings and grounds.

Robin Osborne studied classics at King’s. He spent a number of years teaching in Oxford before being drawn back by the unique challenges of the College. He teaches across the range of Greek and Roman history, art and archaeology, and teaches Historians as well as Classicists. Quite a lot of the things he has published have grown out of his teaching. He has been an editor of Omnibus for many years and you can find his contributions, recent and less recent, in the Omnibus archive (https://archive.org/details/omnibuscatalogue). 

He is responsible for three of the LACTOR volumes which aim at making original sources available to school students. Robin also serves as Vice-Provost of King's which oversees the College Fellowship.

Dr Gillian Tett became the 45th Provost of King's in October 2023, succeeding Professor Michael Proctor.

She studied anthropology at Clare College before becoming a journalist, editor and columnist in a career spanning 30 years at the Financial Times. She remains a member of the FT Editorial Board.