Ella Leonard

Ella Leonard has a BA in English literature from Durham University.  She is a lawyer and investment funds partner at Fladgate LLP, currently heading the Finance, Funds and Regulatory practice, and sitting on the partnership board.  Ella was the Chair of Governors of PACT Educational Trust for 10 years, a charity which owns and manages two prep schools, and both a boys’ and girls’ senior day school in South London, retiring from this role in 2019.  She is also a governor of WPSF, a grant-making educational charity, and a director of the French Hospital of Rochester, a provider of sheltered accommodation to adults with financial, mental or physical need. Ella was appointed a Governor to Clifton College in 2001 and to the College Council in 2020.  She is married with three children. In addition to being an OC herself, Ella is the mother of one OC and one current Clifton College pupil.