Trustees
David Rae
David Rae has been at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
since graduating in 1978. He entered the Garden
as
a lecturer but, since 2000, has been Director of Horticulture, responsible
for the gardens at Edinburgh, Benmore, Dawyck and Logan and also for Education
and Visitor Services. He was on the PlantNetwork committee from 1995 to 2003,
Chairman from 2001 to 2003 and is currently President. He represented British
botanic gardens on the European Botanic Garden Consortium from 1996-2006.
He has travelled and worked in many countries, currently most notably in
Bhutan, Turkey and Oman, has given presentations at more than 20 national
and international conferences, is a Trustee of eight Trusts and has published
about 50 papers.
Peter Cunnington
Peter Cunnington was formerly Curator of the
University of Liverpool Botanic Garden at Ness, a post he held 
until
his retirement in 2002. Trained at Wisley he has worked in most branches
of horticulture but specialised in alpine flora. His travels have taken him
to America, China, Central Asia, the Himalayas and the mountains of Europe.
A participant in two successful expeditions he has gained considerable knowledge
of plants in the wild and used this knowledge when acting as Botanical guide
for tour companies in both the UK and Canada.
Peter has received honours from the Royal Horticultural Society and the Alpine
Garden Society and was awarded an M.B.E. for services to meteorology, a hobby
maintained since school days.
Sally Petitt began her career in 1988 as a trainee
horticultural technician at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. During her
career at Cambridge she has had responsibility for several sections,
including alpines, and is now Head of Horticulture.
She has travelled in Europe and Asia studying plants in their natural habitat, and has twice received funding from the Merlin Trust for plant collecting expeditions to Pakistan and China. She has written for a number of publications including Curtis's Botanical Magazine and The Garden.
Jonathan Chenevix-Trench
Jonathan Chenevix-Trench was until recently
Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Institutional Securities
Group at Morgan Stanley, the global financial services 
company.
Prior to this, Jonathan served as Chairman and Chief Executive of Morgan
Stanley International, responsible for all of the firm’s business
in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Jonathan joined Morgan Stanley
in 1984, and left in December 2007.
Jonathan has held a life long interest in both Horticulture and Entomology. In addition to the Merlin Trust, he serves as a Trustee of the Chelsea Physic Garden, the Royal Ballet School, and the Royal Academy Trust.
Mr. Chenevix-Trench was born in March 1961. He graduated with a BA degree in Classics from Oxford University in 1984.
Brent Elliott
Librarian and Archivist to the Royal Horticultural Society,
1982-2007 (assistant librarian 1975-82); 
Historian to the RHS, 2007 to present.
Editor, Garden History, 1984-88. Member of Council, Garden History Society 1984-94. Member, Historic Parks and Gardens Committee/Panel, English Heritage, 1985 to present.
Member, Buildings Committee, Victorian Society, 1979 to present.
Author of, e.g. Victorian Gardens (1986), The Country House Garden (1995), Flora (2001), The Royal Horticultural Society 1804-2004 (2004).
Trustee of Merlin Trust since 1995. Trustee of Finnis Scott Foundation (founded 2007).
Awarded the Missouri Botanic Garden Greensfelder
Medal in 2008.
