Trustees

The Trustees hold the Executive Directors to account for their leadership of the organisation and also work closely with them to guide their decision-making on key issues.

Alan Parker (Chair)

Alan is the founder and Chairman of Brunswick Group LLP, the international corporate and financial communications firm which he started in 1987. 

He is also the founder and Vice-Chairman of China Now, a nationwide festival in the UK celebrating Chinese arts and culture designed to strengthen understanding and relationships between the UK and China.

Mark Esiri

Mark is the founder of Venrex, an early stage venture capital firm, backing the founders and managers of businesses such as Notonthehighstreet.com (internet marketplace), Chilango (Mexican restaurant chain), Astley Clarke (internet jewellery), Smythson (luxury goods) and Peerius Limited (internet technology).

He was a founder member of the Internet Advertising Board's Measurement Committee (the first organisation to properly measure consumers' web behaviour), and has been a visiting lecturer on CRM and Internet Marketing.

Richard Winter (Honorary Treasurer)

Richard is a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. As well as having lead audit responsibility for a number of multinational companies, Richard provides valuation and strategy advice and undertakes mergers, acquisitions and other capital market transactions.

He is a member of the Confederation of British Industry International Financial Reporting Standards steering committee.

Alex Duncan

Alex is a Senior Associate Member of St Antonys College Oxford and Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. He is supporting the newly-established Drivers of Change team within the Policy Division of the Department for International Development.

Alex has worked in many parts of Africa, Asia and Europe, and at a strategic level for several development agencies.

Robert Hingley (Chair of the Audit Committee)

Robert worked in investment banking for over 20 years and, after the acquisition of Schroders by City Group in 2000, ran both German Investment Banking and the Financial Institutions Group at Citigroup's Investment Bank. 

He has also been Vice-Chairman at Lexicon Partners and is currently Chief Executive of The Takeover Panel. Robert was appointed Trustee in November 2007.

Tamara Ingram

Tamara was formerly joint Executive Chairman UK of Saatchi & Saatchi before joining McCann-Erickson as Chairman and Chief Executive of McCann and the World Group companies.

She is now Group EVP and Executive Managing Director of Grey Global Group as well as President of Team P&G, responsible for the Procter and Gamble relationship throughout the WPP Group.

Tamara also sits as a non-executive director on the board of Sage, a FTSE 100 company, as well as the board of the Almeida Theatre.

 

Gareth Thomas

As Retail Director and longest serving Board member of John Lewis, Gareth steered the department store group to win every major sector and service award by the time he left in April 2010. He then became one of the founding partners in new retail property development company Total Retail Concepts.

He worked in a Non-Executive capacity for the British Heart Foundation between 2003 and 2006, and was appointed to the Board of Save the Children UK in 2005. Memories of his childhood spent in East Africa left a big impression of the huge divide between children born with and without so much.

Gareth was appointed to the main Board of Tate in April 2010 and in addition, he now Chairs the Board of Tate Enterprise Ltd and the Tate St Ives Advisory Council.

Kevin Watkins

Kevin is Director of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report – an annual report which examines progress towards internationally agreed goals in education and analysis a wide range of policy issues. He has also been Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report Office.

Previously, Kevin was Head of Research at Oxfam, where he worked issues including African debt, international trade, education and health policy. He is a board member of the Center for Global Development, UNICEF’s Innocenti Center and the Journal of International Development.

Joanna Shields

  Joanna is Facebook's vice-president of sales and business development for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and has also served as Council member of The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

She has held key senior management positions in Google, Bebo, AOL and RealNetworks, creating and managing international technology businesses, maximising shareholder value and leading companies to successful exits.

Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda

Gumbonzvanda has served as Regional Director for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Eastern and Horn Africa covering 13 countries.

Active in the women’s movement, she has focused on issues of violence against women, peace with justice, property rights and HIV and AIDS. She also serves on the Advisory Board for the African Centre for Women, Information and Communications Technology.

Vice Presidents

Our Vice Presidents work with us to extend the range of our influence and fundraising potential:

• Nigel Boardman
• Michael Edwards
• Gordon Campbell Gray
• Peter Mallinson
• Sophie McCormick
• Linda McGoldrick
• Keith Mullin
• Charlotte Ransom
• John Reizenstein
• John Reynolds
• Michael Ridley
• Andrew Sibbald
• Alisa Swidler
• Alex Wilmot-Sitwell