Mrs Rachel Lawson

Rachel graduated from The Queen’s College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian). She has sat on its  Governing Body Development Committee since 2010.  After graduating, Rachel pursued a career spanning 20 years in the retail sector, specifically in the Head Offices of Marks and Spencer and Tesco. Rachel’s career evolved from leading buying departments to strategic restructuring and change management projects, ultimately heading up training and development for the majority of Tesco Head Office functions. Rachel moves to Corpus from St Catharine’s College, where she was Deputy Director of Development. Whilst there she used her expertise to support the development and delivery of their strategic plan, and played a major role in fundraising for the resulting £65m campaign.

For the last 15 years Rachel has been a governor and latterly Joint Chair of Governors at Hockerill Anglo-European College, a leading State secondary school in Bishop’s Stortford. In that time she set up its Development Office and fundraising function for two multi-million pound capital projects. At a local level, over the past 25 years Rachel has also been involved in numerous village clubs, committees and charities, raising funds for local causes.