Lisa is a corporate lawyer and has worked in several large City private practices as well as in-house.  She now freelances for a number of charities and is the treasurer and co-ordinator for the Barnet Parent Carer Forum as well as a Director of BELS (Barnet Education and Learning Service). She has three daughters, two of whom attended the school, and is an old girl. She has been a parent governor since February 2014 and also governed at the school between January 2006 and December 2009.

Jonathan is an architect by profession, specialising in urban design and complex large scale masterplanning. He is a partner in a practice based in central London with approximately 120 staff, and has led significant projects across the UK and internationally. He has also been a lecturer at UCL for over twenty years, where his teaching and research work is focused on urbanism and interdisciplinary practice. He was previously vice chair of governors for a newly formed primary free school in Camden, and has a daughter who joined HBS in 2021.

Esther taught at HBS between 2014 and 2024, prior to which she worked in financial services. She has a daughter at the school.

Larry retired at the end of 2023 after more than forty years in book publishing, all at the same company, Transworld Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House, for which he was Managing Director for 23 years. His authors included Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Bill Bryson in non-fiction and the novelists Kate Atkinson, Lee Child, Jilly Cooper, Ben Elton and Terry Pratchett among many others. Larry has lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb for the last 23 years, is married to the writer Claire Calman, and they have one son who is in his final year at Leeds University.

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Professor Yang Hao has a daughter at HBS and he is the Dean for Research (Science and Engineering) at Queen Mary University of London. His research interest is applied physics and advanced materials for ICT applications and he is keen to advocate the core values of STEM for school education.

Aakanksha runs a data analysis and research company called Smart Move Ventures, based out of North West London. She works across various charities and trade organisations, volunteering her time for different communities. Aakanksha is a board member at Jain International Trade Organisation, and Chair of Events at the Professional Women’s Network.

She has previously been the co-chair of the HBS PTA from 2021 to 2024. Her daughter has been at the school since 2020.

Pragya is a Technical Delivery Leader and a Transformation  Programme consultant at a Fintech firm in London. She has a Masters in Computer Applications and an Economics Honours. She has been associated with the HBS Parents Association for the last 8 years as a member and chair. She has one daughter currently studying in HBS and one who graduated in 2020.

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Sarah Rollo is a Staff Governor. She has been a part-time member of HBS’ Classics department since 2013, teaching Latin, Greek and Classical Civilisation. After studying Classics at Oxford, she worked in press and public relations in the charity and health sectors and oversaw communications for BBC World.

Natasha Rosen is a qualified solicitor with a background in corporate and commercial law, and is currently an advisory lawyer in the Government Legal Department.  She studied Classics at Cambridge and is a former HBS student.