AMREF has over 700 employees, 97% of whom are African and based in Africa. In the UK we have 16 employees, including:
Grace Mukasa
Chief Executive
Grace joined AMREF from VSO, where she was Head of Programmes for Africa, and had previously worked as Country Director for VSO in Zambia, Director for Programme Development for Save the Children Norway in Uganda; Programme Manager for Plan International in Uganda and Executive Director of ACFODE, a leading national women’s organisation that promotes women rights and gender policy in Uganda.
She also worked with government as a teacher in both Kenya and Uganda and as a Regional Programme Manager for Uganda Bureau of Statistics on the World Bank/UNDP/ Govt. of Uganda Surveys to monitor the Social Dimensions of Structural Adjustment through the Integrated Household and Community Surveys and Demographic and Health Surveys.
Grace is Ugandan and has an MA in Gender & Development from the Institute of Development Studies and a Post Graduate Diploma in Planning & Management. She joined AMREF in January 2008.
Senait Fassil
Director of Finance and Administration
Senait joined Amref in April 2008. She is a qualified Chartered Certified Accountant and holds MBA from Oxford Brookes University. Senait comes with extensive experience in charity accounting and financial managment both at country office and head office level. She started her career in her native country Eritrea with LWF then moved to CARE International where she worked both in country office (Eritrea and DRC) and head office (Atlanta). Prior to joining Amref she worked with IRC-UK and NEF in similar positions.
Victoria Rugg
Communications Manager
Victoria has specialised in the field of communications for charities for the past ten years. Before joining AMREF, she managed communications for CAYSH, a charity offering support and advice to young vulnerable people in south London, re-branding the organisation and developing a range of communication materials.
Prior to this, she was based in Brussels, Belgium, working for a number of health-related charities, including running the communications team for the International Planned Parenthood Federation's European Regional Office, the largest global advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights. She joined AMREF UK in February 2010.
Please contact Victoria for any communications/press-related enquiries on (+44) 0207 269 6867 or v.rugg@amrefuk.org