Martin Brooks MA

Chairman

Martin Brooks has chaired the Gurkha Museum Trust since 2016.

He served with the 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles. Thereafter, he spent twenty years at the Financial Times as an executive and director, latterly as chief executive of its Information Division before going on to chair Idox plc, the quoted software company for ten years until 2015.

Martin has been a director or adviser to a number of organisations, including chairing three not-for-profit organisations; the Camelot Foundation, a grant-giving charity helping disadvantaged young people, the publishing company of the Institute of Charted Accountants (ICAEW) and the Cornwall Development Company, the economic development arm of Cornwall Council. He is a former trustee of the Royal Institution of Cornwall and its Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery. He is currently strategic adviser to Cityforum, a public policy seminar organisation.

Martin was brought up in Sierra Leone and Cornwall. He was educated at Oxford University where he read PPE and attended the Smaller Companies Executive Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. More recently, he took a Masters degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies specialising in the Himalaya, while also completing a one-year module in Museums, Heritage and Material Culture.