Annual General Meeting 2025
Annual General Meeting 2025
Read the 2024 AGM Minutes and 2024-25 Annual Report and Financial Statements [to be uploaded in October] here.
Trustee recommendations for the Annual General Meeting
At the AGM on 29th November 2025, Dr Campbell Price, Richard Ayre, and Dr Penelope Wilson will each retire having served their maximum term and therefore not eligible for re-election. Dr Abeer Eladany and Dr Jennifer Cromwell will retire by rotation and stand for re-election. Dr Roba Ashraf Abdelbadie and Taco van Heusden each resigned during the year. The Board recommend Robert Lee and Dr Kathleen Sheppard to fill two vacancies arising.
Short biographies of the proposed new Trustees are set out below.
To receive your ticket to attend the virtual AGM please book online. Please note that you must be a current member of the Egypt Exploration Society to attend the virtual AGM. Online voting will be possible during the meeting. Proxy forms for those unable to attend live must be completed in full and sent electronically to [email protected] or by mail (to: The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London, WC1N 2PG) and received by 16:00 (UK) on Thursday 27th November 2025.
If you have any questions that you would like to raise at the AGM, then please email them to [email protected] in advance.
The Board’s recommendations for Trustees
Dr Kathleen Sheppard
Dr Kathleen Sheppard is Professor in the History and Political Science department at Missouri S&T in Rolla, Missouri. She earned her MA in Egyptian Archaeology at University College London in 2002, and an MA and PhD in History of Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2006 and 2010, respectively. She has spent her whole career telling the stories of women in Egyptology. Her first book was a scientific biography of Margaret Alice Murray, The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology (2013). Throughout the research for that and her second book, My Dear Miss Ransom…: Letters Between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898-1935 (2018), she found so many of Egyptology’s missing women in archives spread all over the world. She wanted to tell those stories, but her third monograph, Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists’ Social Networks, 1885-1925 (2022) focused on social and professional networking among Egyptologists in European-run Egyptian hotels. Her most recent book, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (2024) is a grand retelling of the history of Egyptology through the work that women did. These are the women whose lives and work built the discipline of Western Egyptology. Her forthcoming work includes a four-volume set of primary sources in Egyptology (Routledge) and a chapter about Archibald Sayce’s life on his dahabeah Ištar. She is also working on Kate Bradbury’s travel journal from her US trip from 1889-1890, with Amelia Edwards.
At Missouri S&T, where she has been on faculty since 2011, she teaches undergraduate general survey courses. In her History of Science courses, sadly, she only talks about Egyptology for one lecture. She is also the Director of the Research Center for Science, Technology, and Society.
Robert Lee
Robert Lee is a real estate lawyer at London international law firm DACBeachcroft where he is a partner involved in major housing regeneration projects. Robert has worked in the legal sector for some 40 years and lives in London and North Devon with his wife Helen and their four children.
Robert has a keen interest in ancient Egypt which was sparked when he took his late father (who did his national service in Port Said and Cairo) for a holiday to Egypt some 20 years ago. This led Robert to read into the subject and to join the Egypt Exploration Society. Robert is a keen champion of the EES and previously served as a Trustee between 2010 and 2016 Robert has subsequently visited Egypt on many occasions.
In addition to an interest in both ancient and modern history Robert is a keen collector of antique silver particularly of the Georgian period.
Sue Preston
Sue Preston is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser. She worked in the oil industry for a number of years before taking a career break and moving to the Far East. Since her return she worked for a number of not for profits and was formerly the Finance Director of a grant giving trust.
Sue has wide experience of not for profit accounts and a particular interest in governance. She has also had a keen interest in Egyptology and studied at Birkbeck College.
The Board's nominees for re-election
Dr Abeer Eladany
Dr Abeer Eladany graduated from the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, and then gained a postgraduate diploma and Pre-MSc degree from the Faculty of Tourism, Helwan University. She worked at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, for more than 10 years before travelling to Italy to study conservation of ceramics in Florence. She then joined the KNH Centre, University of Manchester, to study Biomedical and Forensic Studies in Egyptology where she achieved her MSc and PhD. In 2015, Abeer gained an MLitt in Museum Studies from the University of Aberdeen. In her current role as a curatorial assistant at the University of Aberdeen’s Museums and Special Collections, she promotes wider access to the museum collections. Abeer’s research interests are mainly related to human remains, the history of Egyptology, and Museology (particularly Ethics and Repatriation), and she has joined archaeological excavations in Egypt and in Scotland.
Abeer is an active volunteer for a wide range of charities ranging from community projects to heritage groups in the UK and is currently a Trustee for SHMU, a community media organisation and one of the core cultural organisations in Aberdeen. She is also a director on the Board of Trustees of Soundfestival a new music incubator based in north-east Scotland encouraging new music creation and discovery.
Abeer is a member of the Slavery, Empire and Scottish Museums steering group that has recently published recommendations following a large public consultation regarding how Scotland’s existing and future museum collections and spaces can better recognise and represent a more accurate portrayal of Scotland’s colonial and slavery history.
Dr Jennifer Cromwell
Dr Jennifer Cromwell is Reader in Ancient History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool for her BA, MA, and PhD (focussing on Coptic legal documents from western Thebes in the 8th century CE), and before joining MMU in 2018 she held research positions at the University of Oxford, Macquarie University (Sydney), the University of Copenhagen, as well as the British Museum. Her research focusses on social and economic life in Egypt during the late 6th to 8th centuries CE; the study of Coptic papyri; and the reception of ancient Egypt in modern analogue and digital games. From 2021–23 she was the principal investigator on a UK Research Institute-funded project, ‘Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging’ (with sociologist Dr Caitlin Nunn), which worked with Manchester Museum, Sheba Arts, and migrant-background youth researchers (aged 16–24) in Greater Manchester to creatively explore the forced migration of ancient historical objects and what it means to ‘belong’.
Online attendance
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Voting by Proxy
If you are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting, but unable to attend live, you may vote by proxy:
- Please complete all fields in the form available below – incomplete proxy forms will not be considered
- Fill in your own name and address
- Decide whom you wish to be your proxy. If you wish to appoint someone other than the Chair of the Meeting, delete the words in italics and insert the name and address of the proxy of your choice,
- Decide whether you wish to direct your proxy to vote as he/she thinks fit, or whether you wish to direct him/her to vote as you instruct.
- Complete the proxy voting form below and return it to: The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG, or [email protected], by 16:00 on Thursday 27th November 2025. Any proxy voting forms received after this time will be invalid and will not be effective in appointing a proxy.
