Georgina Cannon joined King's in November 2024 as Executive Director of Philanthropy & Alumni Relations. In this role, Georgina has overall responsibility for securing philanthropic and other forms of support from the University's worldwide alumni community and other individuals and organisations, in order to further the vision and strategy of King's.

Georgina joined King’s from the University of Cambridge, where she held the role of Managing Director of Development and was part of the team that delivered the University’s £2bn fundraising campaign ‘Dear World…Yours Cambridge’, which closed ahead of schedule in 2022.

Georgina begun her career working with international NGOs before moving into higher education and has over 20 years’ experience working as a professional fundraiser for non-profit institutions’.