Staff at The London Library
Director, Philip Marshall
Philip began his career as a solicitor, qualifying in 1996, and specialising in commercial law for the IT, media and publishing sectors. After completing an MBA at London Business School, Philip joined the British Museum in 2003. Over an 11 year period at the Museum, Philip’s roles included Head of Commercial and Director of International Engagement. He then worked as Director of Business Development at the Royal Albert Hall and Director of Development at Sadler’s Wells.
Tel: 020 7766 4712
Membership Director, Felicity Nelson
Felicity joined The London Library as Membership Director in September 2017. She has worked in membership for over 12 years, most recently as Head of Membership and Business Development for maritime trade association The UK Chamber of Shipping, responsible for growing their membership and commercial activities.
Prior to this Felicity managed Special Interest Groups for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and worked in events for the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Felicity graduated from LSBU with a BA in English and has an MA in Contemporary Approaches to English Studies from Goldsmiths.
Tel: 020 7766 4753
Development Director, Philip Spedding
Having gained a business degree at the University of British Columbia, Philip has spent most of his working life in the arts. Having fundraised for the arts over a number of years, he joined Arts & Business and, over the subsequent 16 years, encouraged both businesses and arts organisations to recognize how they can work together for their mutual benefit. Businesses seeking his advice have ranged from American Express in New York and Samsung in Seoul to Deutsche Bank in London and Lexus in Vienna. He eventually became the Director of Arts & Business.
Philip has sat on the UK Treasury’s Charity Tax Forum and has advised governments both in the UK and abroad on the development of private sector support of the arts, speaking on the subject in many countries including Albania, Canada, China, Russia, South Korea, Viet Nam and across both Europe and the UK. He also sits on the Management team of the Charity Tax Group, is the Vice Treasurer of the Lambeth Horticultural Society and is a trustee of Action for Children’s Art. He joined The London Library as their Development Director in May 2014.
Tel: 020 7766 4716
Director of Collections and Library Services, Matthew Brooke
After obtaining an MA in Information Services Management at the University of North London, Matthew joined Royal Holloway College, University of London in 1997 as a Liaison Librarian for the departments of History and Social & Political Science.
After holding several posts including Library Services Manager and Associate Director, Matthew was most recently the Acting Director of Library Services from June 2017. He held responsibility for the leadership of the library service at Royal Holloway, including the archives, special collections, art collection and exhibition space. In addition to overseeing numerous adaptations to space and services, he led the library’s development of the £60m Library & Student Services Centre.
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Finance Director, Peter Hyde
Peter graduated in 2001 from the University of Birmingham with an MSci (Hons) in Physics. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Sayer Vincent, a firm specialising in the not-for-profit sector, where he also received the ICAEW’s Diploma in Charity Accounting.
He subsequently spent two and a half years auditing EU funded humanitarian aid projects with the accountancy firm PKF Littlejohn. He continued his career working in various finance roles for a number of organisations including CLIC Sargent, Malaria Consortium and most recently EveryChild where he was Head of Finance. He joined The London Library in January 2017.
Tel: 020 7766 4713
Head of Member Services, Amanda Stebbings
A chartered librarian since 1992, Amanda worked as an Assistant Librarian with Cambridgeshire Libraries until moving to be Area Children’s Librarian in the London Borough of Barnet in 1995. A period as Library Manager followed until being appointed Senior Librarian Adult Library Services in 2009, and subsequently appointed Service Development Team Leader in 2013. Amanda joined The London Library in January 2014.
Tel: 020 7766 4792
Head of Bibliographic Services, Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros
Dunia graduated from University College London in 1998 with a BA (Hons) in Archaeology, Classics and Classical Art. Between 1998 and 2000 she worked as a graduate trainee at UCL's Library and then as a library clerk at the law firm Lovells. Dunia went back to UCL and completed an MA in Library and Information Studies in 2001, she was Assistant Librarian at the College of Law of England and Wales from 2001 to 2003. Cataloguer at the Courtauld Institute of Art 2003-2005. Librarian at the National Maritime Museum 2005-2007.
Dunia joined The London Library in March 2007 as Head of Retrospective Cataloguing, she became Head of Bibliographic Services in 2011, following the merger of the Current and Retrospective Cataloguing teams.
Tel: 020 7766 4746
Head of Communications, Julian Lloyd
Julian joined The London Library as Head of Communications in May 2015 and has a wide-ranging background in communications and information publishing. Following an initial career in corporate strategy roles for the media group, United News & Media, Julian become Development Director of their UK exhibitions and information publishing arm. In 2003, he became Media Relations Manager at the National Trust, helping oversee the promotion of a range of property acquisitions, heritage and environmental campaigns and the handling of the Trust’s corporate communications.
In 2008, he was appointed Communications Manager at Natural England - the government’s conservation adviser and regulator – managing the communication to public, government and stakeholder audiences of the agency’s high profile environmentalwork. Julian graduated from Cambridge University with a BA in History and has an MBA from the London Business School.
Tel: 020 7766 4704
Head of Acquisitions, Gill Turner
Gill graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic (now University of Portsmouth) 1982 with BA (Hons) in Latin American Studies. 10 years spent in general bookselling, managing various branches of a chain in south east England, switched to librarianship in 1994 completing an MA in Library & Information Studies from University College London in 1995 for which a thesis on acquisition methods in public libraries was submitted.
Joined The London Library in July 1995 as cataloguer/Spanish acquisitions librarian. Chartered Librarian in 1998. Acquisitions Support Librarian from May 1998 to 2003 and Head of Acquisitions since January 2004.
Tel: 020 7766 4760
Head of Development, Anna Clark
After graduating from the University of Exeter with a degree in Drama, Anna has spent her career in the arts and culture sector. She has over nine years of experience in fundraising and following early roles at Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Royal Court Theatre Anna spent five years at Sadler’s Wells where she was the Individual Giving Manager. She went on to be the Head of Individual Giving at the National Army Museum before joining The London Library as Head of Development in December 2017.
Tel: 020 7766 4744
Head of IT, Will David
Graduated from Lancaster University in 1985 with a BA (Hons) in History and Politics. Museum guide at the Pump Room and Roman Baths Museum, Bath 1986 to 1988, before embarking on a librarianship career, and graduating with an MA in Library and Information Studies from University College London in 1990. Returned to University College London part-time and graduated with a postgraduate MSc in Information Systems in 1998.
Following brief periods at Birkbeck College Library, London and Christ Church Library, Oxford Will joined The London Library in 1990 as deputy head of the Loans Department. He became Librarian in charge of Information Technology in 1994.
Tel: 020 7766 4730
