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Trustees

Our Board of Trustees works closely with our executive directors to guide their decision-making on strategic issues and hold them to account for their leadership of the organisation.
Dr Tsitsi Chawatama-Kwambana, Chair of the Board

Dr Tsitsi Chawatama-Kwambana, Chair of the Board

Tsitsi is a Consultant Paediatrician at Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and brings a wealth of knowledge to the Board as an expert in Global Child Health. She has worked extensively in the NGO and development sector with expertise in strategic planning, program delivery and capacity building through training health workers. Tsitsi is a trustee of Sentebale, a charity co-founded by Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and the Duke of Sussex to support vulnerable children in Lesotho and Botswana and is a member trustee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). She was Vice-chair of AFRUCA-Safeguarding Children, which promotes the protection of children from ethnic minority communities in the UK, Europe and Africa and, a safeguarding trustee of UK-Med which responds to health emergency responses around the world. Tsitsi also brings invaluable lived experience of the Global South having spent her formative years in Zimbabwe and as a clinician in development work in Ethiopia and Southern Africa. 

Richard Winter, Vice Chair

Richard Winter, Vice Chair

Richard Winter was formerly a partner at PwC. He was 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.

Arabella Duffield, Vice Chair

Arabella Duffield, Vice Chair

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).

Jason Allen

Jason Allen

Jason is the Founding Director of Mary’s Charity; a specialist beacon for vulnerable young people affected by Serious Youth Violence and at risk of exclusion. Mary’s Charity provides mentoring, counselling and gang interventions reaching over 1000 young people per year. Jason creates therapeutic programs & training to prevent conflict and support mental health. For the past 17 years Jason has worked nationally in providing socio-economic support across various sectors, working / supporting within education, communities, government, NHS, HMPPS & Police on strategic direction for violence reduction, community growth, social and emotional well-being interventions. Jason holds qualifications in; Masters in Psychoanalytical Therapies and Interventions, BA Hons in Social Pedagogy. 

Kirtbir Chahal

Kirtbir Chahal

Kirtbir Chahal is a policy and advocacy specialist with extensive background in international development and children’s rights. Kirtbir currently works for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. During her three years at the Cabinet Office, Kirtbir delivered strong policy outcomes across six G7 and G20 Summits including on girls’ education, conflict related sexual violence, nutrition, economic security, and green infrastructure. 

At Unicef UK, Kirtbir developed the organisation’s first meaningful youth engagement strategy, before moving on to develop policy and advocacy strategies on air pollution, immunisation, nutrition and climate change. Previously, Kirtbir has lobbied for domestic violence survivors on Capitol Hill; represented the Canadian Government at the UN Human Rights Council; and advocated for homeless and at risk young people in Calgary. 

She is a passionate advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion, and is well known for driving corporate and culture change on EDI issues. Kirtbir holds a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously a Trustee for Girlguiding UK and the United Nations Association Canada-Calgary. She is also a Raisina Young Fellow. 

Catherine Doran

Catherine Doran

Catherine has over 35 years’ experience in Social Work, Family Therapy, Safeguarding and Policy development. She has worked as an Executive and Non -Executive Director across local and central government, the NHS and in the not-for-profit sector. Catherine is presently a Non Exec on the Board of Children and Families Court Advisory Service, Minister of Justice and the Children’s Advisory Committee of the British Board of Film Classification and the Video Appeals Panel, Department of Sports and Culture. Throughout her long career, Catherine has worked with others to spearhead legislative and policy changes on Safeguarding, Domestic Violence, Honour Violence, Sexual Exploitation, Child Poverty, Online Harm, and was instrumental in establishing the Family Drugs and Alcohol Courts in the UK.

Tim Fallowfield OBE

Tim Fallowfield OBE

Tim has been a Director on Sainsbury’s Operating Board since September 2004.  He is Company Secretary and Corporate Services Director with responsibility for risk and governance, legal, safety, information security and insurance.  He chairs the Sainsbury’s Group Safety Committee and the Data Governance Committee.  He is a qualified solicitor having started his career with Clifford Chance.  As Chair of the Disability Confident Business Leaders Group, Tim has worked with Government in shaping the disability employment agenda and in raising awareness of the benefits of employing disabled people.  He was awarded an OBE for services to disability awareness in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List.  

Jessica Gladstone

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

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.

Laura King

Laura King

Laura is a brand and marketing expert with nearly 20 years experience working across multiple sectors most recently within global retailers. She is currently Marketing Director for Accessorize the UK's leading accessories business. Previous to that, she held roles at Urban Outfitters and two of the most prominent advertising agencies in the UK. 

Her extensive experience includes developing brand strategies, building world-class collaborative teams, using insights to articulate and align brand positioning and values, and implementing effective marketing frameworks and processes. She has a particular interest in ensuring brands remain culturally relevant whilst producing innovative and category leading campaigns.

Laura has managed and developed high performing teams across social media, PR, visual merchandising, digital marketing, photography studios, events, experiential, campaign, design and copywriting. She has a passion for children (including having three small children of her own) and helping people. Her experience has seen her working with local children's charities on raising money, as well as collaborating with the UN on a global campaign to tackle racism against refugees.

Jane Long

Jane Long

Jane is Chief Executive of Helen & Douglas House, which was the world’s first Children’s Hospice. Having started out in the commercial world in Global Marketing organisations she has spent the past 14 years in Executive Leadership roles, leading People and Corporate Services in the Health, Social Housing and Education sectors.  

Jane has a passion for transformational change and enabling people and organisations to be the best they can be, realise their potential and maximise their impact.  She recognised mid way through her career that applying that passion in the not-for-profit/Third Sector world can help make a wide and meaningful difference in the lives of the people and communities served.

Dianna Melrose

Dianna Melrose

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 global affairs think tank ODI from 2016-2023.

Kajal Odedra

Kajal Odedra

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.

Babatunde Soyoye

Babatunde Soyoye

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.

Page last updated April 2024

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