Alumni

Ollie Pope is an English professional cricketer who plays for the England cricket team and Surrey County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman who occasionally plays as a wicket-keeper. He made his Test debut in 2018.

Izzy Petter is an English field hockey player who plays as a forward for Loughborough Students and the England and Great Britain national teams. Izzy scored a solo wonder goal to help Great Britain qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics before featuring prominently as she helped them win a bronze medal at the Games. A year later she won Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham.

Alan Rusbridger was Editor in Chief of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015. He is now Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Alan is also noted for fighting, and winning, a number of high-profile legal cases involving free speech issues and corruption in government. In his years as editor he won Newspaper of the Year several times, and several awards as editor of the year. Alan was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism by Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Centre and received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement. He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College Oxford and a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary College, London. He is also Chair of the National Youth Orchestra.

Sarah Ioannides is recognised as one of the top twenty female conductors worldwide by Lebrecht’s “Woman Conductors: The Power List”. An active guest conductor internationally with orchestras such as the Tonkünstler, Royal Philharmonic, Orchestre Nationale de Lyon, Cincinnati Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, she serves as Music Director of Symphony Tacoma, WA and formerly Music Director of the Spartanburg Philharmonic and El Paso Symphony. A graduate of Oxford University and Juilliard School of music she is active on advisory boards, an adjudicator, public speaker, and educator, she has served as NEA Panelist for the US Government.

Portraits of Sara Ioannides Hartman and family

Will Travers OBE is co-Founder of the Born Free Foundation as well as Founder and President of the Species Survival Network. He has spent 36 years working in the field of conservation and wild animal welfare, as well as writing, directing and producing many films of conservation themes. He was awarded the OBE in 2012 for services to animal welfare.

Ellie Mackay is CEO and Founder of Ellipsis Earth Ltd., an organisation that uses the power of machine learning and aerial imaging to track waste deposits and find collaborative solutions to reduce or prevent them returning. Ellie is also a research professional and experienced science communicator who uses her skills to tell stories about conservation.

Professor Andrew Roberts is a renowned historian based at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he is an honorary senior scholar and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). He is presently a Visiting Professor at the War Studies Department at King’s College, London and the Lehrman Institute Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society. He has written or edited twenty books, including highly acclaimed works on Napoleon and Winston Churchill, and appears regularly on radio and television around the world.

Flt Lt Victoria Turner was one of the first girls to attend Cranleigh prior to Sixth Form. Following her university degree, she became a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force, undertaking training to become a jet pilot. Following flying training she was streamed to fly the Eurofighter Typhoon. Since completing her training as a Typhoon pilot, she has been deployed to a number of locations for both operational and training purposes, which has seen her travelling over much of the globe.

Nicholas Dimbleby is an Old Cranleighan and one of the country’s foremost figurative sculptors. His sculpture, Leaving, was commissioned as a war memorial to Cranleigh’s fallen. It was unveiled at Cranleigh in the summer of 2015 to mark the end of the school’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

Jeanine Hsu is an internationally renowned jewellery designer. Her own brand – niin – uses re-purposed materials to create ethical and sustainable jewellery and accessories. niin is a celebrity favourite with a flagship store in Hong Kong and plans to expand its work in sustainability with an education programme in The Philippines. Jeanine lives in Hong Kong with her husband and three young sons.

The late Peter Conder OBE found his passion for birdwatching whilst boarding at Cranleigh, an interest that was developed during his time as a Prisoner of War. He used his wartime bird studies as the basis for an ornithological career that saw him become Director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) taking it from an ineffectual organisation of 20,000 members to more than 200,000 during his stewardship. He is widely credited with instigating a culture of conservation of the environment to protect bird and their habitats.

Dr Eva Namusoke is a Ugandan historian and research consultant. Driven by a desire to know more about her home continent, Eva completed a Masters in African Studies at Yale University before pursuing a PhD in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. Her PhD focused on church and state in post-colonial Uganda, investigating the development of the Anglican Church into the incredibly powerful institution it is today. Eva is passionate about education, history and particularly the stories that are rarely told.

Will Collier was an English Rugby Union player and tighthead prop for Harlequins in the Gallagher Premiership. He started with Rosslyn Park FC at just six years old and joined the Harlequins Academy in 2011, while still a pupil at Cranleigh. Will made his England Test debut against Argentina in 2017.

Catherine Conway is one of the leading voices campaigning on all aspects of reuse and zero waste. She launched the company Unpackaged in 2006 and has been spearheading the zero waste retail movement for over a decade.