United Kingdom

Former and Honorary Director General of European Investment Bank (EIB)

Tom Hackett was, until August 2012 when he retired, a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Executive Director of the European Investment Bank (EIB) with a remit to help develop activity between the two international financial institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Before joining the EBRD in May 2010, Tom Hackett was Director-General at EIB from July 2005 and was in charge of its lending to the 27 Member States of the EU, Turkey and the Western Balkans. During that period, and especially in response to the financial and economic crisis, EIB’s European annual lending rose to 75 billion euro. Prior to that, he was in charge of EIB lending in various EU regions including Poland and the Nordic countries (from 2004), Italy and Greece (from 1999) and the UK (from 1994). Tom Hackett began his EIB career in 1981 in capital markets and his banking career in 1968 with S. G. Warburg.
Tom Hackett was a trustee of Fulham Palace Trust until he reached the renewal limit and remains a trustee of Bishop Creighton House, Fulham, London. He is a Director of Retail Charity Bonds Plc, a platform to enable charities to obtain long-term funding for self-financing projects.

Board Member of Europa Nostra

Graham Bell was the UK national coordinator for 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage and now is involved in a range of follow-up initiatives as part of the European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage to ensure cultural heritage is represented across all European agendas. He is involved in European Commission policies such as Voices of Culture on emerging skills, Strategy 21, UNESCO’s Ruritage replicators, Europeana’s forward plan for digital intangible cultural heritage, working with the ViMM project on digital cultural heritage and the BIM4Heritage group. As Director of Cultura Trust, founder of the Hungarian Renaissance Foundation and as board member of Europa Nostra and of the executive of the Foundation for European Architectural Heritage Skills, he is a participant in a range of Erasmus+, Horizon 2020 and other partnership programmes on project management, sustainability and cultural tourism. He has been an assessor of Europa Nostra awards and its representative at local award ceremonies across Europe. His experience as project manager in rescue and reuse of landmark historic sites has informed his role on the 7ME Advisory Panel and in mission visits in Serbia (Subotica synagogue), Bulgaria (Buzludzha house-monument) and the UK (Grimsby Ice Factory). He is a longstanding specialist adviser to the UK National Trust, was a founder member of Future for Religious Heritage and now advises the Jewish Heritage Foundation. He is a member of ICOMOS Hungary and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences across Europe on themes such as the future of museums, the role of cultural heritage in the circular economy and environment, and has been a course tutor in cultural heritage management at postgraduate level in the UK, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia.