New development director at King's College London

Press release from King's College London

Gemma Peters, Head of Fundraising at King's, has been appointed as the new Director of Development. She will be responsible for leading the College's new fundraising campaign as well as overseeing the Alumni Office.

Gemma joined King's two years ago and played a major role in the College's most successful capital campaign which raised over £40 million. She takes over from Becky Williams who left recently to become the Tate's Development Director.

Rick Trainor, Principal of King's College London, said, ‘it will be a major challenge to achieve our strategic ambitions in development. But I am very confident that Gemma will provide the professional expertise to launch a more ambitious fundraising campaign. She will move into her new role with immediate effect and I know that she will be able to count on the support and advice of College Committee members and other senior colleagues.'

Before joining King's, Gemma, who has a politics degree from Sussex University, worked at Mencap, the deaf-blind charity Sense and the Open University.

King's College London
King's College London is the fourth oldest university in England with more than 13,700 undergraduates and nearly 5,600 graduate students in nine schools of study based at five London campuses. It is a member of the Russell Group: a coalition of the UK's major research-based universities. The College has had 24 of its subject-areas awarded the highest rating of 5* and 5 for research quality, demonstrating excellence at an international level, and it has recently received an excellent result in its audit by the Quality Assurance Agency.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, international relations, medicine, nursing and the sciences, and has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA. It is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe and is home to four Medical Research Council Centres – more than any other university.

King's is in the top group of UK universities for research earnings, with income from grants and contracts of more than £100 million, and has an annual turnover of more than £363 million.

Further information
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