Our Board of Trustees

Charles has twenty years of experience as an investor in medium and large sized companies. This includes, since 2013, leading the European private equity business of the global alternative investment firm, Ares Management.

Charles also lived and worked in the Middle East from 2010 to 2012 when he 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 serves as the Chairman of Farrow & Ball, and he used to serve on the Council of Governors of the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and on the Board of Governors of Park Walk Primary School.​

Charles has a BA in history from the University of Cambridge.

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).

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.

Jessica Gladstone is a partner and solicitor-advocate at Clifford Chance. Her practice focuses on international law, arbitration and litigation including public law, human rights challenges, and inter-state disputes. She is highly regarded also for her international law advisory work including international trade and business and human rights. A former legal adviser for the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Jessica has experience negotiating treaties, and representing the UK at the United Nations, Council of Europe, and before the European Court of Human Rights.

Jessica is a visiting lecturer in international arbitration at KCL and a member of BIICL's Public International Law Advisory Panel. She sits on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council for Trade and Investment. She is a founding director of Advocates for International Development (A4ID) and was Chair of the board of Rule of Law Expertise UK (ROLE UK) from 2015-2019. 

Razia Khan is Chief Economist for Africa and the Middle East for Standard Chartered, with over 20 years of experience covering emerging and frontier markets. She is a well-known commentator on the region, and has provided regular updates to central banks, finance ministries as well as corporates and financial institutions doing business in the region. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Royal Africa Society and previously served on the World Economic Forum's Future Councils on Poverty & Migration. She was named one of the '100 Most Influential Africans' in 2015 by New African Magazine and the '100 Africa Economics Leaders' by Institut Choiseul (2017). Razia holds BSc and MSc (Econ) degrees from the London School of Economics.

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.

Kajal Odedra is Executive Director for Change.org UK, supporting some of the biggest people powered campaigns in the UK - from Laura Coyton's campaign to end the tampon tax to Richard Ratcliffe's fight to free his wife Nazanin from prison in Iran. Kajal founded the People of Colour in Campaigns network to address a diversity problem in the campaigns sector. She is also on the Leadership Committee for Ada's List, the network for women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Independent and New Statesman. Her first book, Do Something: activism for everyone, is published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Tanuja is a Partner with management consulting firm McKinsey & Company in the London office. She brings over 25 years' experience in senior executive and NED roles across the technology, telecoms and industrial sectors. Most recently Tanuja was CEO, UK & Ireland, for Schneider Electric, the global energy management and automation firm. She has a strong passion and track record in championing talent and diversity in business, founding PowerWomen network in 2015, a senior women leaders network in the UK, and was recognised by the FT/HERoes Outstanding Awards as a Top 50 Champion for Women in Business in 2017 and 2018. Tanuja has extensive non-executive Board experience having served as NED for two publicly listed firms - Proximus Group in Belgium and Zensar Technologies. She was also recently appointed to the London First Board. 

David Ripert is CEO and Co-Founder of Poplar, an Augmented Reality online agile studio incubated within Founders Factory in London. Prior to this he was Head of YouTube Spaces for Europe, the Middle East & Africa, with a global team 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 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. He sits on the Board of Sadler’s Wells.

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

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.

Mark was 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.

Richard Winter is a partner at PwC. He is currently the Global Assurance Risk & Quality Leader with responsibility for the network’s Assurance risk, quality and technical functions. Prior to this, he was on the UK Assurance Executive, and headed the firm’s Capital Market, Accounting Advisory and Structuring practice. He also has had audit responsibilities as a partner on a number of FTSE 100 clients.

Richard has experience as a Trustee of a number of charitable organisations and was appointed CBE for voluntary service to International Development through Save the Children and Merlin in the 2017 New Year’s
honours.