Lady Hollick (Chair)
Sue Woodford Hollick is a businesswoman and consultant with wide-ranging involvement in broadcasting and the arts. She is a former producer/director of "World in Action" for Granada Television and founding Commissioning Editor of multicultural programmes at Channel 4 television. She has been Chair of Arts Council England, London since September 2000 and is currently a member of the Tate Modern Advisory Council. She is founder and Co-Director of Bringing Up Baby, a childcare company. She has recently taken over the Chair of the U.K. board of AMREF, Africa’s largest NGO and leading health development charity.Sue Woodford-Hollick is married to the Labour peer and founder of Channel 5, Clive Hollick. She has three daughters, one granddaughter and a grandson. Her passions include television, the arts, cinema, tennis and golf.
Gautam Dalal (Treasurer)
Gautam Dalal grew up in Tanzania and has been a partner in KPMG’s London office since 1990. He was part of the team that established KPMG's India operations between 1993-1997, based in Mumbai and returned to be its Chairman and CEO from 2000-2003. He is on the Asian Business Association committee of the London Chamber of Commerce and is treasurer of Panos London. He was on the board of the UK India Business Council, a UKTI body to promote trade between the two countries, between 2004-2007.
Paul Davey
Paul Davey is a graduate of Leeds University where he studied Management Studies and Modern Languages. He has worked for more than 20 years in a range of marketing and communications roles. He worked for a leading blue chip plc for 15 years on a number of different brands ranging from global leaders to smaller challenger brands with responsibility at board level for all marketing and communications programmes. Since 2002 Paul has been a partner at Modern Marketing Solutions and is also managing director of airplay media ltd. MMS is a marketing consultancy and airplay media ltd is a brand communications agency, both working to support a range of clients on issues ranging from marketing strategy and business planning through to brand development work and communications strategies.
Ian Edwards
Ian Edwards joined Iain More Associates as a director and senior consultant in February 2006 after spending nearly ten years at INSEAD, the world’s leading international business school, where he was executive director of development. After graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Ian worked for ten years in commodities principally for ED&F Man Limited, the world’s leading sugar, coffee and cocoa trading company. At Man, he established the firm’s East African operations in Nairobi and joined the firm’s partnership in 1989. In 1990 he resigned to establish an independent trading business in Nairobi.Ian is a founding trustee, along with Roger Mear and the late Sir Laurens van der Post of the Wilderness Trust. He was a trustee of CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Europe from 1996 to 1999, Chairman of the Trustees from 2001 to 2004 and a Board member of CASE International during that time. He is a Freeman of the City of London and has been a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of World Traders since 1994.
Matthew Edwards (Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee)
Matthew has worked at Accenture for 22 years helping financial services clients with the shaping, planning and delivery of large change and IT programmes. He is currently leading a major programme for a large UK bank and is also the senior executive responsible for Quality & Risk across the UK & Ireland Financial Services business of Accenture. He is responsible within Accenture for its corporate citizenship work with AMREF, including the e-learning programme for Kenyan nurses. He spent part of his childhood in Kenya and returned as a teacher for a year in the 1980s.
Ian Gill (Chair of the Governance Committee)
Ian Gill currently runs his own human resources consultancy business and clients include an African agribusiness fund and an emerging markets Private Equity firm. He retired at the end of 2005 from Actis Capital LLP, where he was the human resources director. Following 12 years working overseas in tropical agricultural management, Ian returned to the UK to a role in the Commonwealth Development Corporation’s human resources department. Ian was a non-executive director of Employment Conditions Abroad International from 1997 to 2002 and a trustee of Farnham Castle from 2001 to 2006. He is a trustee of the CDC pension scheme.
Mark Goldring CBE
Mark has been Chief Executive of VSO since 1999. VSO is an international development agency that uses volunteering to tackle poverty and disadvantage around the world. Prior to this role, Mark held a number of posts, including that of VSO’s Overseas Director, Oxfam’s Country Representative in Bangladesh, where he also worked for UNDP, and Social Development Adviser for DFID in the Pacific. Mark started off his career as a VSO volunteer teacher in Sarawak in 1979. Mark read law at Oxford and has a Masters degree in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from LSE. Mark was awarded a CBE in January 2008 on the eve of VSO’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.
Samara Hammond
Samara Hammond has worked for the NHS for 20 years, with extensive overseas experience predominantly in Africa, but also in eastern Europe. She is a primary care nurse practitioner and a senior public health specialist, working in the only World Health Organisation collaborative public health department in the UK. Samara trained at St Thomas’ Hospital, did her nurse practitioner degree at the Royal College of Nursing and her master in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is also currently a part time lecturer at Surrey University in Advanced Nursing Practice.
Katherine Mathers
Katherine is an independent consultant specialising in change leadership and organisational development, after several years consulting experience with KPMG and Deloitte Consulting, and a career in international public sector reform with CARE International.Katherine also has direct experience of coordinating relief and development programmes through her work with CARE International, having been responsible for negotiating and obtaining funding of over £2.5 million, and the day-to-day management of an emergency relief feeding programme for over 180,000 children in Zimbabwe (1994-1997). This three-year project resulted at the time in a new strategic focus for health and education policies in Zimbabwe. She continues to be passionate about social development issues.
Inosi Nyatta
Inosi is an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where she has worked since September 2001. She specialises in Corporate Finance and Project Finance Law. She has undertaken pro bono work including advising a U.S. not-for-profit organisation, running a sports academy in Senegal, on improving its governance and organisational arrangements and participating in the Sullivan & Cromwell clinic involving the preparation of wills, health care proxies and child custody documentation for patients with AIDS/HIV. Inosi has been a Member of the African Affairs Committee, with the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, before moving to the UK in 2006. Prior to working in the United States she lived in Kenya, where she studied for her LLB and worked as a Legal intern.