Andrew Cahn

Sir Andrew Thomas Cahn, KCMG (born 1 April 1951) is chair of the board of governors of Birkbeck, University of London,[1] and a former senior civil servant.

He is married to Virginia Beardshaw, who was Chief Executive of I Can, the children's communications charity; they have one daughter, and two sons.

Cahn was a trustee of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation[5] from 1996 to 2023 and is a governor and member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Government.

He has also served as trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, where he was Chairman of their Audit Committee, and of Japan Society.

[8] Cahn encountered controversy in January 2011, when an internal email he had sent saying the FCO wished to find ways to spend up to its 2010/11 budget ceiling, was leaked to the Daily Mail.