Sir Peter Lampl - 2004
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman and founder of the Sutton Trust, is a graduate of Oxford University and the London Business School. Sir Peter and the Sutton Trust are committed to improving the life chances of children and young people from non-privileged backgrounds.
The Trust focus starts very early in a child's educational life with pre-school parenting and early years learning programmes. Funding for school-age children includes programmes for able children in inner cities, sponsorship of four specialist schools per year, partnerships between independent schools and state schools and an open access independent school at the Belvedere School in Liverpool. The Trust also funds a range of programmes promoting access to university and the professions.
Sir Peter has served as an independent advisor to the Secretary of State for Education since 2000. He is a member of both the Government's Task Force on Fundraising for Higher Education and its University Admissions Task Force, which is chaired by Professor Steven Schwartz, Vice-Chancellor of Brunel.
Before establishing the Sutton Trust in 1997, Sir Peter was a successful entrepreneur as founder and chairman of the Sutton Company, an investment and private equity firm with offices in New York, London and Munich. Prior to founding the Sutton Company, he was a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in the United States and Europe and held a number of senior management positions at International Paper, the world's largest paper and forest products company.
He was awarded a Knighthood in the June 2003 Honours List.
For his outstanding service to access to education, Sir Peter Lampl received the honorary degree of Doctor of the University.
DUniv - July 2004
