Shirley Price is currently Emerita Professor of Toxicology at the University of Surrey, having held several senior posts at the University.  She also holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Hertfordshire.

Over the course of her career, Shirley has been instrumental in providing education and training programmes in safety sciences to a wide range of industries, regulatory authorities and academic institutions nationally and internationally.

Shirley is President and Fellow of the British Toxicology Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Higher Education Academy.  During her career, Shirley has worked on a number of government committees including the World Health Organisation, Veterinary Residues Committee and the Paediatrics Expert Advisory Committee and was appointed by the Minister for Health as a Commissioner on the Committee on Human Medicines.

Nikki Nelson-Smith holds a BA Joint Hons in Economics and Politics. For the first part of her career Nikki worked as a macroeconomist in the City of London and more recently as a microeconomist and strategy manager in the transport sector. She has been a Trustee of a life skills education charity for school age children and of Citizens Advice Guildford. She was an elected member of Guildford Borough Council for 8 years, and was first introduced to RGS Governing Body when Mayor of Guildford in 2015/16.

Simon Gimson became a Governor in 2016, sits on the Education Committee and, just before Covid, took on the role of Lead Governor for Safeguarding. He served in the Royal Engineers for 20 years and was deployed to Belize, Northern Ireland and Bosnia. In his second career Simon has had a wide range of roles in the rail industry including train operators and the Department for Transport.

Rupert, the Earl of Onslow and High Steward of Guildford, became a governor in December 2012.

Canon Robert Cotton was appointed to be Rector of Holy Trinity and St Mary’s Guildford in May 1996, thereby becoming an ex officio governor of the RGS.

Robert is embedded in the town life of Guildford, being a governor also of Guildford High School, Holy Trinity Pewley Down School, Abbot’s Hospital and other housing charities.

Robert read Mathematics and Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, before training for ordained ministry in Leuven, Belgium and at Cambridge.

Helen is the Head of School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey. She is a Co-Director of the University’s Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education that is recognised by NCSC, with responsibility for overseeing cyber security outreach and education across the organisation. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Karen qualified as a Dentist from Birmingham University and worked in general practice both in the UK and Singapore for 25 years. She moved to Guildford in 2003, where her son attended both RGS Prep and RGS for 15 years. Karen is a volunteer with mentoring programmes for young people, including the Kids Network.