Chair – Quentin Kopp

Committee member and responsible for Society events since 9 March 2012.  Became a trustee on registration of the society as a charity on 5 November 2014.  Elected Chair on 17 April 2021.

Quentin is Chairman of a pioneering company creating a new powerful material principally made of wood. His second career was as an independent Management Consultant focusing on improving business performance through improved development of people and processes and has worked with businesses around the world. He also supervised Masters Students in his areas of expertise at Warwick University. His earlier career was spent in HR and then Managing Director roles in large engineering and clothing groups. Quentin’s father Georges Kopp met his Mother through having been Orwell’s Commanding Officer in the Spanish Civil War.

“I have been a keen reader of Orwell’s work since my teenage years. The clarity of his thought and his lucid expression always impressed me and are an example to all still. At a time when people decided what they thought in relation to their ideology, his clear and independent approach was and remains refreshingly different.”