Geoffrey Matthews

Geoffrey Matthews is Mercer Vice Chair of the Gresham Council He is a Director of National Theatre Enterprises Limited, a Trustee of the South Square Trust arts education charity and a Governor of St Paul's Girls' School. He is a Member of the Mercers’ Company Court of Assistants, serves on the Company’s Heritage and Arts and Philanthropy Committees, and is Chair of the Governance Committee of the Mercers’ Charitable Foundation.

After reading Classics at Cambridge, Geoffrey completed a short service commission in the Irish Guards; he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and as a Director of SRU Limited; was Managing Director of the National Gallery’s retail and publishing company; and was Project Private Secretary for TRH Princes William and Harry (producing ‘Concert for Diana’). He was Creative Director both of an FCO global public diplomacy campaign to promote the UK and, in 2012, of the National Theatre’s Inside Out Festival. Between 2013 and 2026 Geoffrey served as Secretary and CEO of the Chelsea Arts Club.

Geoffrey has served on a number of non-executive boards in the past, including those of the London Library, St Charles’s Sixth Form College, the 999 Club drop-in centres, The Royal Society of Sculptors, Battersea Arts Centre, Sentebale and Bristol Old Vic Trading Limited.