A college built by one man. Continued by his students.
In 1991, Alan Campbell taught his first lecture in a Guernsey bank boardroom. He believed governance professionals deserved better training than they were getting, and he spent the next thirty years proving it.
He carried assignments between Guernsey and London in his briefcase. He taught revision weekends in Belize, Barbados, Mauritius, Cyprus and the Isle of Man. He answered the phone when his students needed him. Always.
Alan died unexpectedly in 2021. Vivian Campbell and Jane Hamilton ran the college with care for four more years, and saw their students safely through to their qualifications. In 2025, they announced the college would close.
One of Alan’s students was a young company secretary called Erika Eliasson-Norris. Facing an ethical crisis early in her career, she raised it with Alan at one of his revision weekends. He sat with her until she knew what to do. That conversation shaped a career.
She went on to found Beyond Governance. When she heard Alan’s college was closing, she could not let it disappear. Beyond Governance acquired Campbell’s.
So Campbell’s continues.
