The members of CARE International UK's board of trustees are:
Richard Greenhalgh (chair)
Richard is a former chair of Unilever; chairman of First Milk Ltd; chairman of the Council for Industry and Higher Education and deputy chairman of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. He is on the board of the Rank Group plc and British Youth Opera. He is also Vice Chairman of CARE International.
Professor Michael Adler
Michael Adler is the Emeritus Professor of Genitourinary Medicine/Sexually Transmitted Diseases at the Royal Free & University College Medical School. He is an adviser to the British Government, the World Health Organisation, DFID and UNAIDS. Writing extensively in the press and a frequent broadcaster, he has been highly influential in persuading both the public and politicians of the importance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He has carried out numerous consultancies, particularly in Africa, India, Bosnia, China and St. Helena for WHO, UNAIDS, DFID, Marie Stopes International, Lepra etc. He was awarded a CBE in 1999 for services to HIV/AIDS.
Andy Bearpark
A career civil servant, Andy has primarily worked at the Department for International Development and its predecessor, the Overseas Development Administration. He worked closely with CARE International while head of information and emergency aid from 1991 to 1997 at DFID. Since then he has worked for the UN on reconstruction in Sarajevo and Kosovo and for DFID in Iraq. He earlier worked as press secretary to Baroness Chalker and was a private secretary to the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Dr Alison Fielding
Alison is chief operating officer for Techtran and a director of its parent company IP2IPO, an intellectual property company specialising in commercialising university technology. She previously worked for the Axiomlab Group as investment manager, and at McKinsey and Co as engagement manager. She started her career at Zeneca plc (formerly ICI).
Stephen King
Stephen is Director of the BBC World Service Trust, a board member for Crown Agents and a steering group member of the Global Forum for Media Development, an association of Sector Organisations working on training initiatives worldwide. He was formerly Executive Council on Social Welfare, Montreal, Canada and London and regional representative (Asia) for HelpAge International, Thailand.
Michael Rogerson FCA
Michael was a partner in Grant Thornton, the chartered accountants, for 31 years. In his last six years he was head of the firm’s charity and not-for-profit group which had more than 400 charities as clients. He is the past chairman of the London Regional Council of the CBI. His charitable work has included 15 years as a marriage guidance counsellor and he is on the board of eight other charities.
Richard Street
An independent adviser to international organisations on youth employment and employability, Richard has worked in business, civil society and government in more than 50 countries. Following twenty years in the security print industry, he was appointed CEO of the Prince’s Youth Business Trust. In 1999 he founded Youth Business International, a network of youth business programmes based on the Prince's Trust model helping disadvantaged young people become entrepreneurs. He is currently a non-executive director of Streetkids International and a Governor of the City and Islington College of Further Education.
Dr Fiona Thompson ACA
Fiona is a consultant focusing on investment issues for development, including liberalisation of local markets, state restructuring and government-business relations. During her career she has lived in India, Brazil and South Africa and her work has included advice, strategic support and analysis for multinationals, governments and state-owned entities. She previously worked for over ten years at the auditing firm Arthur Andersen and is currently a Research Associate at the University of London.
Frances House
Frances has worked in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human rights for the past ten years, as regional director (SE Asia and China) and subsequently policy director with the International Business Leaders Forum, researcher and advocate with Human Rights Watch, and has been an active member of the Amnesty International Business Group. Prior to this Frances worked for the European Commission in Brussels and Vietnam on humanitarian and development projects, for CARITAS in Hong Kong, providing educational services to Vietnamese asylum seekers in detention centres. She was elected to the board of Amnesty International UK in 2004. She is currently Director of Strategy at the Institute for Human Rights and Business in London.
William Macpherson
William Macpherson is a commercial education director with wide experience of working outside the UK. From 1993-2002 he was Managing Director of The Financial Training Company, the UK's largest trainer of accountants. From 2002 he was CEO of Kaplan International, the non-US education arm of The Washington Post Group where he was responsible for and developed businesses in Europe, Australasia, SE Asia, China and the Middle East. Most recently he has consulted to private equity firms on vocational and skills education. He has an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA from INSEAD. He lives in Kent with his wife and three children.
Neil Alldred
Neil worked for over 20 years in a number of African countries, initially in teaching and research and then in increasingly senior positions of development programme management and strategic direction for Oxfam, ActionAid and a number of African NGOs, concentrating on capacity-building in HR, in financial autonomy and in key technical areas. Located in Ireland since 1999, he is now engaged in advocacy and awareness-raising, especially by challenging paradigms widely accepted in the Global North and by mobilising consensus for alternatives.
Susan Liautaud
Susan is the founder of Imaginer Consulting Limited, a consultancy offering pro bono services to non-profit organisations ranging from start-ups to Nobel Prize winners. She offers particular expertise in governance, accountability, strategic planning, board management, and a variety of operational matters. Earlier professional experience includes international corporate and financial law at Sullivan & Cromwell in Paris and New York and subsequently serving as Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs and Lecturer in Law at Stanford University Law School, where she developed the first course in international NGOs.
Susan serves on a number of non-profit boards and advisory boards, most recently including the American Hospital of Paris Board of Governors, the Comité de la Charte Board of Directors, co-Chair of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières U.S. Advisory Board, and the Columbia Law School International Advisory Board. Susan holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science; a Juris Doctor from Columbia University Law School with honours; a M.A. in Chinese Studies with distinction from University of London School of Oriental and African Studies; and two B.A.s with honours and a M.A. from Stanford University.
Dharmender Singh
Dharmender is an international development consultant. Over the last several years he has supported several governments and international organisations in the field of governance - institutional development, public service delivery, financial management reform, aid coordination as well as mentoring of officials and public servants. He has worked in Afghanistan, Sudan, Libya, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Kosovo, and Nepal with organisations including the UNDP, EU, DFID, national governments and voluntary groups. Prior to this, Dharmender, worked in the House of Commons, the European Parliament, with a bank and for the CBI. He is also a Trustee with the Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) and has an MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics & Political Sciences.
Angela Cluff
Angela is a director of The Management Centre, a training and consultancy company that works exclusively for not for profit organisations in the UK and internationally, where she is responsible for the fundraising consultancy business. She has spent most of the last 20 years working in the voluntary sector, working in frontline fundraising roles and as a consultant to organisations in the charity, international, education and arts and cultural sectors. She is a regular speaker at fundraising conferences especially on her specialist area of major donors. Before joining The Management Centre, Angela worked in corporate fundraising for the British Heart Foundation, and spent seven years at the NSPCC where she was jointly responsible for the groundbreaking Full Stop Appeal.
