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Richard Livesey-Haworth (Chair)
Richard became chair of ChildHope in December 2005. A graduate in Molecular Biology, he spent over twenty-nine years with ICL, joining as a graduate trainee and was an Executive Director of the Board from 1989 until he left 1997. From 1998-2000 he was Chief Operating Officer of The Industrial Society. He has been Chairman of a UK publicly listed software house, Chairman of an IT applications outsourcer based in California and Bangalore, an executive director of a wine importer and retailer which raised funds for the Charitable Sector, and is currently a member of the Council of the City & Guilds of London Institute & a member of the Advisory Board of Youth at Risk UK.

Dean Anderson (Director)
Dean graduated from London Guildhall University in 1997 with a degree in Politics and Sociology.   During this time, he held a temporary job at the Department of the Environment Know How Fund, which distributed grants for environmental work in the emerging states of the former Soviet Union; his first experience of the voluntary sector.

His first role in an established charity following graduation was at the National Playing Fields Association, an organisation designed to protect Britain’s recreational spaces.  Two years later, he had secured the position of Events Fundraiser at ChildHope, later becoming Fundraising Manager there.  His four years at ChildHope were immensely enjoyable and rewarding and included first hand experience of the work during visits to Romania, Bangladesh and Nepal. 

He left ChildHope in 2004 to take up the post of Project Funding Manager at the World Society for the Protection of Animals and then returned to his preference for human rights work at Amnesty International in June 2006.  With almost 10 years experience of the not-for-profit sector, he has a good overview of most elements of fundraising, but with a particular expertise in proposal writing, fundraising from trusts, corporates and major donors and fundraising governance. 
           
William Brewis (Director)
William is a solicitor who has a wealth of experience in financial services law as well as partnering and other commercial arrangements.  He heads up the funds and financial services team at Wragge & Co LLP, a national law firm, and joined ChildHope as a trustee in April 2007. 

 William is totally committed to the equality and development of children.  He is a school governor at both the Sandwell Academy, a newly designed and built all-ability city academy that opened in 2006, and at Eckington First School, Worcestershire.  Over the years he has lived and worked in various countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East as well as travelling to other parts of the world such as China.

He lives with his family, a wife and three daughters, in Worcestershire and is keen glider pilot.

Carolyn Clarke (Director)
Carolyn users her skills as a chartered accountant and change management and behavioural consultant, as well as prior experience of the charitable sector.  She is a Director with Price Waterhouse Coopers where she advises many global companies on the impact of new regulation on their business processes and people.

Carolyn first became aware of ChildHope several years ago and was impressed by the organisation’s commitment to improving the lives and opportunities for children in a flexible and responsive manner according to their situations, as well as by the professionalism and dedication of the team at ChildHope in pursuing their objectives.

Fiona Mitchell (Director)
Fiona has worked as social researcher for a number of years. In the main, her work has focused on children’s rights and welfare in the UK. She currently holds a position as a researcher at The Children’s Society, where her work concerns the rights of disabled children and young people. Other recent research has explored the levels of support provided to unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children in England and the experiences of young people who run away from home. Following her experience of researching with young refugees who have recently arrived into the UK and a period volunteering in Guatemala, she has become increasingly interested in the rights and welfare of children internationally. 

Jean Grugel (Director)
Jean Grugel is Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield where she has worked since 1994. Her work has mainly focused on Latin America where she has lived for periods of time. Her research and teaching interests focus on questions of democracy, citizenship and rights and she has published widely on these issues. Jean has most recently been working on two projects, the first on global governance and children's rights and the second a comparative study of governance in developing countries after economic crisis.

Her research has been funded by the EU, the ESRC, the main funding agency of UK social science and the Nuffield foundation. She is also editor of the journal, the Bulletin of Latin American Research. Jean is keen to persuade people that academics can think practically as well as theoretically and wants to close the gap between academic research and INGO/advocacy approaches as far as possible. Having said that, academic knowledge has its place and accessing it can bring benefits to NGOs that bridge the advocacy/action divide. Bringing academic knowledge in can open Childhope up to a different, but supportive, policy.

Alex Kirby (Director)
Alex is a former BBC journalist, now freelancing.  Before joining the BBC he and his wife lived for over a year in Burkina Faso, and he was BBC Maghreb correspondent, based in Algiers in the mid-1980s.  He spent a short spell as religious affairs correspondent, but for most of his time as a broadcaster was environment correspondent for radio and television news, and latterly for the BBC News website.

From 1999 - 2005 he presented the Radio 4 environment programme, Costing the Earth.  He runs a consultancy working with universities, charities and other NGOs to improve their media skills, both UK and abroad.  He is a consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme, a member of the National Union of Journalists, and an honorary visiting fellow of Green College, University of Oxford.   He has been a ChildHope Trustee since 2004.

Michael Little (Director)            
Michael Little, Ph.D. was trained as a social psychologist and sociologist. He is a researcher at Dartington Social Research Unit in England and at the Chapin Hall Centre for Children at the University of Chicago. He holds professorial positions at the universities of Bath and Exeter; and is Research Director of the Warren House Group at Dartington.

He is author of more than 10 books and over 100 other publications on child development and services aimed at reducing social need. Michael’s work has been used in the formation of policy and practice in England, five EU countries and three US states. Michael’s work is best known for establishing connections between research, policy and practice.
           
Alice Mayhew (Director)            
Alice is currently a barrister practising in employment and common law in London. She graduated from Exeter University with a degree in Law and went on to gain a masters from Cambridge specialising in international and human rights law. In 1999 Alice was appointed Commonwealth Legal Officer at Interights, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights. At Interights Alice specialised in commonwealth human rights law and the dissemination and sharing of information.
In September 2004 Alice was awarded a Pegasus Scholarship through Inner Temple and she spent three months at the Nadesan Centre and Civil Rights Movement in Sri Lanka. Alice became a trustee in April 2007.   

Chris Mowles (Director)
Chris became a Trustee in 2006. He is an organisational consultant with ten years’ experience of working with INGOs on change and strategy. Previously he worked in the Middle East for Oxfam and in Social Services as a senior manager and business analyst. He is currently studying for a PhD in organisational change at the Centre for Complexity Management, University of Hertfordshire.

Maria Pemberton (Director)
Maria is currently Head of Operations at The Directory of Social Change, the leading provider of information and training to the voluntary sector.  She has spent all her working life in the voluntary sector, a greater part of it at The Industrial Society where she held positions ranging from Head of Marketing, Publishing Manager, Business Development Manager and Director or Special Projects.   She has also worked as Director of Business Development at Youth at Risk and as Head of Corporate Partnerships at The Royal National Institute of the Blind.  In addition she spent 10 years as a volunteer for a national phone Helpline.

Helen Turnbull (Hon Treasurer)
As a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Helen advises and supports both large private sector clients and charities. Helen currently works with Plan International, City & Guilds, the Football Foundation and The Paul Hamlyn Foundation as well as being part of the firm’s Charity Technical Team, advising audit teams on charity accounting issues and compliance with the Charities Statement of Recommended Practise (SORP). In addition, Helen enjoys a number of management roles within PwC, with a focus on KPI performance and staff management (recruitment, resourcing, coaching and retention). She also sits on the Community Affairs advisory group helping to shape the firm’s strategy in this important area.

Helen has been involved with ChildHope since 2006 when she was part of a group of Emerging Leaders from PwC who initiated a project with ChildHope and EveryChild looking at business processes, financial and operational management, budgeting and IT systems in ChildHope’s local partner organisations in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Brazil and EveryChild’s branches in Cambodia, Romania and Russia.