Graham took on full governorship following a successful term as a co-opted member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee. He is currently a member of the Outreach Committee and chairs the Investment Committee. Term of office: co-opted for four years from December 2019.

Graham is a private investor and a non-executive director. He has had a long and distinguished career in private equity, involving significant investment, CEO and board experience including being a founder Partner at Cinven, CEO of Lazard Private Equity Partners and Head of Morgan Stanley Private Equity in Europe. Prior to his career in private equity Graham worked as Head of Business Development at Kingfisher plc and Senior Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. He has a first-class honours degree in Mathematics and a Masters in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge.

He has a particular interest in Mathematics, is a Trustee of National Numeracy, Chair of the Development Board of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, a member of the Royal Society’s Future Maths Project and a member of the Investment Committee of The London Mathematical Society.