Charles G McGregor
Charles has served on the Board of Trustees since 2012. He graduated from UCT with a Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Economic History) Degree.
Charles was the founding Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of Hospitality Europe BV from 1994 to June 2006, when it was sold to Blackstone. He is a Trustee of the Bembridge Sailing Club having served the Club for 17 years, including a term as Rear Commodore (Finance).
Previously, Charles served as a Governor of the Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, as Vice-Chair and then Chair of the Hospital’s Patient and Carer Advisory Group. He also served on the Hospital’s Integrated Governance and Risk Management Committee, retiring after twelve years of service to the Hospital in 2018.
In May 2021, he retired after 12 years as a Governor and Trustee of Goodenough College where he had served as Chair of the Estates Committee and Investment Committee. He remains a member of the College Investment and Finance Committees. He was elected a Trustee of mothers2mothers UK in 2021.
Charles was a Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Cape Town Fund (Inc New York) between 1984 and 1994. He was admitted as a Freeman of the City of London in 2019.
“Faculty and support staff, both past and present, have enabled UCT to take its place amongst the world’s leading Research Universities, and their contribution we must continue to acknowledge. Over the last few decades, and particularly since my graduation in the mid-seventies, UCT has focused on making possible access to those previously denied the opportunity we then enjoyed. UCT’s scholarship, teaching and research capability, together with its focus on access, underpin my continuing backing, and above all, service on the Board of Trustees”.
