Our Trustees
John Laing Charitable Trust is governed by a Board of Trustees who meet four times a year to discuss our strategy and priorities.
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Tim Foster
Tim is a retired senior business lawyer. Having graduated from Cambridge University in law, Tim specialised in business law across a range of industries and held roles with a number of law firms, including as Managing Partner of Reed Smith 2001-2007. He was John Laing Group Legal Head from 2013, retiring in 2019.
Tim has been an active member of the Trust Board since 2018, and said it was ‘ an honour and a privilege’ to take over as Chair in 2021 from Sir Martin Laing.
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Christopher Laing OBE
Christopher joined John Laing plc in 1971. Following many key roles across the business, in 1998 he was appointed Environmental Director for John Laing plc since when he has maintained a keen interest in Sustainable Construction and environmental matters. He retired from John Laing plc in 2002.
He was President of The Chartered Institute of Building in 1993, served as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 2001/2002. He has been a trustee of the British College of Osteopathy and was a Trustee of The Lord's Taverners until 2010. He was appointed Patron of The Chiltern Centre in June 2022.
He is also a trustee of the Beatrice Laing Trust and in 1979 established The Christopher Laing Foundation, of which he is Chair.
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Chris Waples
Chris has been a trustee since 2007.
His extensive business career has involved global experience of managing the acquisition, construction and divestment of infrastructure projects. He was Executive Director at John Laing Group until 2019. Chris is a Non-Executive director for various infrastructure businesses.
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Alex Laing Gregory
Alex is the great granddaughter of Sir John and has been a JLCT trustee since 2016.
Alex has been a trustee on the Beatrice Laing Trust for 15 years and the Martin Laing Foundation for 10 years, having recently become Co-Chair of the latter.
Alex is passionate about the welfare of John Laing retirees and has worked closely with the John Laing retirement clubs for 15 years. She took over as clubs’ president in 2025 and and catches up with as many club members as she can whilst attending AGMs and other events.
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Lynn Krige
Lynn Krige is an experienced finance professional and has spent her career in senior finance roles, most recently as Chief Financial Officer at City & County Healthcare Group.
She has served on the JLCT Board for more than a decade and previously worked for the John Laing Group as CFO.
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Stewart Laing
Stewart has been a JLCT trustee since 2016.
He is also a Vice President of the John Laing Retirement Clubs.
He has worked for a London based sports charity as a Special Needs Teacher as part of their management team. This year he has also joined the board of Trustees for a London based Youth Club for disabled people.
He enjoys a challenge, including swimming the Channel to raise money for charity.
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Pam Orchard
Pam was appointed as a trustee in 2024 following an open recruitment process.
Pam brings 30 years of experience in the voluntary sector and is the current Chief Executive Officer of The Connection at St Martins. Pam has also held senior roles in homelessness charities since 2003 including Edinburgh Cyrenians (Deputy CEO).
Pam also takes on occasional projects to support charities to overcome difficult situations and provides coaching/ mentoring for senior leaders.
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