Our Board of Trustees

Peter is an executive and agent in the entertainment business. A former theatre producer, he founded the Tiger Television Group in 1988 and was its Chair until 2011. He chairs PBJ Management, a leading artists’ agency, and Burning Bright Productions.

Peter was a founding Trustee and Chair of Comic Relief and Sport Relief (1998-2013) and a director of the Millennium Promise (UK) (2009-2014).

He is a Trustee of the Royal National Theatre, chairing its Production Board, and is a director of the Liverpool Playhouse and Everyman Theatres.

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society, from which he received a Lifetime Achievement Award, and was granted the BAFTA Special Award in 2011. He was awarded a CBE for services to the Entertainment industry and to Charity in 2014.

Fiona McBain is Chairman of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc, a non-executive director of Dixons Carphone plc and a non-executive director of Direct Line Insurance Group. Fiona is also a trustee of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy.

Fiona was Chief Executive of Scottish Friendly, the mutual financial services group until the end of 2016, having joined in 1998 and previously served as Finance Director.

She spent her earlier career with Prudential and Arthur Young (now Ernst and Young), where she qualified as a chartered accountant, following her graduation from Glasgow University.

Fiona was twice awarded the coveted title of Scottish Enterprise Female Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors (Scotland). 

Gareth is a partner at the international accountancy and advisory firm Mazars, where he leads on audit and advisory work for UK public services.

He was previously Managing Director of the Audit Commission's Audit Practice, and held several senior posts at the Commission before that. Gareth has combined a long career in public audit with an interest in international development and humanitarian work. He was a trustee and the Honorary Treasurer of Oxfam GB from 2005 to 2011 and then a trustee at Merlin, the international health charity, from 2011 to 2014.

Diana has worked for a range of development organisations and policy think tanks, focusing particularly on climate and energy issues and supporting sustainable livelihoods. As part of a diverse portfolio, she heads up content at the convening organisation, Pi Capital, supports various green economy initiatives, sits on the board of the Shell Foundation and the WWF-UK Council of Ambassadors, and acts as an adviser to a start-up in the digital health space. 
 
Diana has a first class undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford and advanced degrees from both Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania.

Jamie is President and CEO of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation. She has more than 20 years’ experience in roles bringing private sector, government and non-profit leaders together to pursue innovative policy and programming around economic and social issues.

She held senior roles for Shine Trust, Gould Partners and the Center for Policy Alternatives in Washington, DC and has also worked for CBS News and the Atlanta Project, an initiative of former US President Jimmy Carter.

Jamie serves on several boards in the international development sphere, including the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children; the Harvard School of Public Health Board; the Impetus Advisory Council; Coutts UK Philanthropy Advisory Board and the Business Leadership Council for Preventing Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV.

Arabella Duffield has a PhD in Public Health Nutrition from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She worked extensively in Africa and Asia for ten years for the UN and non-governmental organisations including Save the Children. She completed the Sloan Programme at London Business School in 2008.

Arabella is currently a trustee of Save the Children, the AD Charitable Trust, Access for Inspiration, the Clore Social Leadership Programme, the Clore Israel Foundation and the Weizmann Institute (International & UK).

Naomi is an expert in UK child poverty issues, with senior governance and management experience and a wide network across key decision-makers in the area.

Currently Senior Research Fellow, Education Department, and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, her career has included director roles at the Department of Education’s Sure Start and the Cabinet Office’s Social Exclusion Task Force. As a former Save the Children staff member, Naomi has a strong engagement with our organisation and commitment to our ambitious UK growth targets.

Anne is Non Executive Director and Chair of Audit Committee at Interserve, SThree and Nyrstar. Until 2015 Anne was CFO of BP’s Aviation Fuels business. During her 27 years at BP Anne gained extensive experience of global business, developing markets, risk management, internal control, compliance and strategy development in BP’s aviation, petrochemicals, trading and retail sectors.

Anne is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, having worked at KPMG in Ireland and Australia prior to joining BP in 1988.

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

Tamara was formerly Executive Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi, before joining McCann-Erickson as Chairman and Chief Executive of McCann and the World Group companies. She then joined Kantar as president of Added Value, The Henley Centre & Fusion 5 (in the US). Tamara currently sits on the boards of The Almeida Theatre, Sage (a UK FTSE 100 company) and EDF Energy.

She is a member of AWNY, WACL, the Marketing Society and the Marketing Group of Great Britain. Tamara was shortlisted for the Verve Clicquot business woman of the year in 2006 and was named as an Ad Age ‘Woman to Watch’ in 2007. Until recently, Tamara was also chairman of Visit London. This work led to her being awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to tourism.

Sebastian James was appointed Group Chief Executive of Dixons Carphone on 6^th August 2014 following the merger of Dixons Retail Group with Carphone Warehouse.  He joined Dixons in April 2008 and held various roles, including Group Operations Director prior to his appointment as Group Chief Executive in February 2012.

Before joining Dixons Retail, Sebastian was CEO of Synergy Insurance Services Limited and gained wide retail experience as strategy director responsible for developing and implementing the turnaround strategy at Mothercare. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group having completed an MBA at INSEAD and an MA at Oxford University.

Sebastian is also a Non-Executive Director of Direct Line Insurance Group plc.

Sophie has considerable experience of volunteers and volunteering with Save the Children and other organisations, and has managed and worked with volunteers in a range of contexts and activities.

She is a chartered biologist who has taught in schools and universities, led an educational research and development team at King’s College, London, and worked with organisations including the World Bank and the BBC as an educational consultant.

Sophie has sat on the Council of the Zoological Society of London and was a trustee of London Zoo and Whipsnade Wildlife Park. Sophie is currently a governor of The Lady Eleanor Holles School.

Dianna is a former British High Commissioner to Tanzania and Ambassador to Cuba. She has worked in international development for most of her career, focusing on policy change to tackle poverty and injustice. As Oxfam GB's first Policy Director, she played a key role in building Oxfam's policy and international advocacy work.

At the Department for International Development (DFID) she was head of International Trade and developed the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - a multi-stakeholder initiative, bringing together governments, industry and civil society to create greater transparency in the management of natural resources.

Dianna led the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Policy Planning department, providing challenge and innovative policy thinking on political, security and economic issues for ministers and the Policy Advisory Board. She is a trustee of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) an independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

David Ripert is Head of YouTube Spaces for Europe, the Middle East & Africa. His global team is focused on super-charging creators, identifying new and rising talent, and driving online video ecosystem innovation through programs, technology and building state-of-the-art studios. David oversees many of these activities across the EMEA region, including the recent opening of a new 20,000 sqft YouTube Space next to London’s Kings Cross St Pancras railway station.

David was previously VP of content at Dailymotion, and before this he was at Netflix. He began his career with Intermedia Film, in the production financing and distribution of feature films.

David received his MBA from Loyola Marymount University and his Master’s degree from EDHEC in France, where he studied business administration, international marketing and entrepreneurship.

Lisa is the Chief Compliance Officer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the EBRD), a multilateral development bank. Lisa is member of the Senior Leadership Group and represents the EBRD at various international fora, such as the FATF, the B20 Anti-Corruption Forum, OECD Anti-Corruption Network and Transparency International’s Steering Committee on the Business Principles for Countering Corruption.

Prior to joining the EBRD, Lisa was Group Head of Compliance, Public Affairs and Regulatory Change Management at the global clearing house, LCH.Clearnet. She has over 20 years of legal and compliance experience in the USA and the UK. Previous positions include Global Head of Regulatory Affairs at Barclays Capital and Head of Litigation and Contentious Regulatory Affairs for Europe, the Middle East and Africa with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Lisa has a BA from Vanderbilt University and a MSc from the London School of Economics. She received her Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law and is qualified to practice law in the US and the UK.

Babatunde is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Helios Investment Partners.

Prior to forming Helios, he was a Principal at TPG Capital in London, responsible for telecommunications and media investments across Europe.

He has previously served as an Executive Consultant to Actis West Africa, on the Board of Directors of Nigeria’s Privatisation Share Purchase Loan Scheme, and as Director of Guaranty Trust Bank. Babatunde currently serves on the Board of Directors of Interswitch.

He is also a member of the LSE-University of Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development, chaired by former UK Prime Minister David Cameron. Babatunde received a BEng in Engineering and an MBA from the University of London (Kings & Imperial College). He is a fluent Yoruba speaker.

Charles is a partner at Ares Management, a global investment firm, where he leads their private equity business in Europe.

Prior to joining Ares in 2013, Charles lived in Jerusalem and served as an Adviser at the Office of The Quartet Representative, which focuses on economic and institutional development in the West Bank and Gaza.

Charles also worked in private equity for ten years prior to being in the Middle East. He started his career at Goldman Sachs, having completed a BA in history from the University of Cambridge.

Charles is also a non-exec director of London Square and Farrow & Ball, where he is Chairman. He used to serve on the Council of Governors of the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and of Park Walk Primary School.​

Mark is a Managing Director in Group Finance at Swiss Re, a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. He has held a range of Finance leadership roles at Swiss Re, including Chief Financial Officer Reinsurance EMEA, Co-Head of Finance Operations/CFO Property & Casualty and Group Chief Accounting Officer.

Prior to this, Mark trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in the UK, followed by audit and advisory roles in France and Switzerland.