Interim Chair appointment at the Historic Royal Palaces

CAROLE SOUTER joins Historic Royal Palaces as Interim Chair, appointed by Her Majesty the Queen. 

Her post commenced 1 August 2022 and will last until 4 July 2023, or until a new substantive Chair has been appointed.
 
Souter is Master of St Cross College, University of Oxford, where she has served as Chair of the Board of Visitors of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. She is also a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, the Horniman Museum and the London Emergencies Trust and a Lay Canon of Salisbury Cathedral.

Chief Executive of the Heritage Lottery Fund from 2003 to 2016, Souter also worked in the Departments of Health, Social Security and the Cabinet Office within the civil service.