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 is a senior advisor with KPMG’s London office. From 2000 to 2003 he was Chairman and Chief Executive of the firm’s practice in India, which he had helped to establish. He is a trustee of The National Gallery. He has been on the board of the UK India Business Council, the Asian Business Association committee of the London Chamber of Commerce and a Treasurer of Panos London.
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.
Matthew Edwards
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.
Liam Fisher Jones
Liam is a director of the international consulting firm, Iain More Associates. He has been a development professional for 18 years, starting his career with the London School of Economics (LSE) before spending 10 years as Head of Campaign and then as Director of Development at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). During this time he led the RSC’s first international capital campaign, with over £100m secured towards the Company’s transformation project in Stratford-upon-Avon. Whilst at the LSE, Liam developed research and scholarship initiatives across East Asia, North America and on behalf of the European Institute. His current clients include many of the UK’s leading arts, education and cultural organisations. He has a degree in International Relations and Political Science.
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.
Murray Grant (Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee)
Murray is one of Actis’s founding partners with an investment focus on Africa. In addition to managing a small team in London, Murray is currently responsible for Actis’s private equity interests in East Africa and the Maghreb countries. In his earlier years with Actis he played a lead role in re-establishing the business in Nigeria and then rebuilding the team in Egypt. Murray joined CDC Capital Partners in 2001, prior to the spin out of Actis in 2004. This followed a 13 year investment career with 3i Group plc in the UK. Murray joined 3i from London Business School. Prior to LBS, Murray spent four years as a consultant in the construction industry working on large infrastructure projects in Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea. These projects were broadly split between the mining and power sectors.
Murray is a Director of Mineral Deposits Ltd (Senegal), Sinai Marble (Egypt) and Candax (Tunisia). He previously served on the boards of Starcomms (Nigeria), Capital Alliance (Nigeria), Rashidi El Mizan (Egypt), Persianas Holdings (Nigeria) and Flamingo Holdings (Kenya) – all successfully exited. Outside of Actis he is a board member of the East Africa Association and AMREF UK Ltd.
Murray has an MBA from London Business School and a BSc (Hons) in engineering from Edinburgh University.
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.