Campaign Leadership
Our alumni are supporting the Campaign by committing their time, energy, professional insight and passion for Cambridge, as well as by giving personally to the Campaign.
The advice of alumni from across the world was invaluable in formulating the Campaign’s goals. Today, Campaign volunteers support the Colleges, University institutions and academic Departments in shaping and implementing their fundraising activities. Alongside the Vice-Chancellor and senior academics, alumni members of the Campaign Board, Campaign Council, Major Gifts Committee (US) and Hong Kong Fundraising Committee – to name just a few of the key advisory bodies that underpin the Campaign – work to encourage as many alumni as possible to engage with Cambridge to ensure that the Campaign goes from strength to strength.
“It was with a sense of shared pride and deep gratitude that we announced, as the 800th anniversary year got underway, that collegiate Cambridge raised £138 million in 2007-2008, enabling the Campaign to pass the £800 million milestone.
The achievement of this milestone is testimony to the commitment of our alumni and friends to supporting excellence at Cambridge. To the donors of major gifts that make a singular transformative impact, and equally to those whose generosity goes under the radar of media attention but who are playing a vital part in supporting Cambridge, we extend our thanks and our appreciation.
The year 2007-2008 was a record one. Sustaining this momentum would be ambitious under any circumstances, and today’s difficult financial and economic situation presents an exceptional challenge. We believe, nevertheless, that Cambridge’s supporters will continue to make the Campaign a success, because they have in common a deeply-held conviction that investing in excellence today, will transform tomorrow.”
Sir David Walker, Bill Janeway
Co-Chairs of the Campaign Council
Collegiate Cambridge has long nurtured richly original thinking in the arts, humanities and at the frontiers of pure and applied science, in ways that have transformed so much of what we think and do. The Campaign is underpinning and enhancing this extraordinary creative capability. Its impact, already manifest, is a call to action to alumni and friends to support the continuing development of Cambridge for future generations. I count it a privilege to be able to play a part in this.
Sir David Walker (Queens, 1958), Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley International
Cambridge University is one of the rare institutions that has repeatedly defined and transformed our world. Now Cambridge itself is engaged in an historic process of renewal and transformation. Some 40 years ago, I found in Cambridge the values – intellectual and ethical – that have guided me since. It is a privilege as well as an obligation to serve and support this great Campaign.
Bill Janeway (Pembroke, 1965), Vice-Chairman of Warburg Pincus, New York
