On Friday 2nd May, the College celebrated the appointment of the first Sir George Darwin Fellow Benefactors, a new category of membership approved by Governing Body to recognise the generosity of significant donors to Darwin.
We are delighted to welcome Dr William Janeway and Mrs Weslie Janeway as the first Fellow Benefactors, and to have the opportunity to acknowledge their longstanding friendship and support of the College.
Distinguished Associates of Darwin since 2019, Dr and Mrs Janeway were joint recipients of the Chancellor’s 800th Anniversary Medal for Outstanding Philanthropy in 2009. They are co-Directors of Finistere Charitable Foundation, co-founders of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, and generously funded the Janeway Institute for Economics at the University of Cambridge.
An alumnus and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, where he completed a PhD in Economics as a Marshall Scholar in 1965, Dr Janeway has had a 40-year career as a venture capital investor. Now a Special Limited Partner at global private equity firm Warburg Pincus, which he joined in 1988, he serves on the boards of numerous organisations and is also a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at the Economics Faculty here in Cambridge.
Mrs Janeway is a graduate of Barnard College and Brown University and has an extensive background in philanthropy, frequently directed towards her interest in science. She currently holds posts as an Independent Director of the New York Genome Centre and a Trustee Emeritus of Rockefeller University. In 2008, she co-authored Mrs Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book based on Emma Darwin’s personal notebook.
