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Matthew Bell (Chair)
Matt is the Director of Policy and Communications for CABE, the government's commission for architecture and the built environment. As part of the senior management team, he leads on policy, research, public relations, and campaigns. This follows five years on the global senior management of VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) as Communications Director. Matt has worked on grassroots community development programmes in both Bolivia and Thailand, and spent 10 years in the UK international NGO sector after completing a Masters at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is married with two children.

Dr Julie Carter
After completing initial clinical training in speech therapy and a Masters in Neurosciences, Julie lived and worked in coastal Kenya, carrying out her doctoral work on the impact of severe malaria on the health and development of children. Since returning to the UK, Julie has worked at the Centre for International Health and Development at University College London, regularly traveling to resource-poor countries to carry out research and consultancy work and lecturing MSc students in international child health. Her areas of specialist interest include the impact of infectious diseases on children's development; the effect of community-based interventions in alleviating these problems; and the consequences of orphanhood on the health and wellbeing of children.

Apart from her work as a lecturer at UCL, Julie is a writer and also runs workshops to train NGO workers from resource poor countries to write for publication.

John Pierce (Treasurer)
John is a chartered accountant and since 1999 has been Chief Executive of the London based Quoted Companies Alliance, an influential City lobby group. Prior to that he was chief executive of a large manufacturing group. He lives in Bath and has two sons.

Sir Richard Storey Bt MA LLB (Cantab) CBE DL
Called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1962. Sir Richard was Director and Chairman of Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers plc from 1973-1998. Other past chairmanships include the Press Association, York Health Services NHS Trust, Fleming Mid Cap Investment Trust, and the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum. Past directorships include Reuters Holdings plc, Foreign & Colonial Smaller Companies plc, One Stop Community Stores, European Newspaper Publishers' Association, INCA-FIEJ (IFRA), Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Foundation; Member of the Press Council 1980-86, President Newspaper Society 1990/91. High Sheriff North Yorkshire 1992. Present positions: Trustee Castle Howard Arboretum Trust, Non-executive director eFinancialNews Ltd; two honorary degrees from Portsmouth and Sunderland Universities respectively. Married with three children. Has agricultural and silvicultural interests and lives in North Yorkshire.

Cary Wakefield
After graduating from Edinburgh University with an Honours degree in Business Studies and French Cary has spent her career in Marketing and Commercial roles in FMCG and Media companies including Smithkline Beecham, Quaker Oats and the BBC. She has considerable experience leading and coordinating Marketing, Brand and Communication Strategies in the UK and across Europe. Cary now runs her own consultancy business working for companies to deliver business critical projects centered around Brands, Communication and New Product Development. Clients she has worked for include The Economist Group, UKTV, Capital Radio Group, Sky and Freeview.

Alan Gosschalk
Alan is currently Fundraising Director at Shelter, where he has been for six years, and was previously in the same role at RNID. For the last five years, the readers of Professional Fundraising magazine have voted him one of the top three most influential people in fundraising, mainly for his role in galvanising the sector to be more transparent and accountable and to do more to educate the public, supporters and media about the realities of modern-day charities. He started his charity life at Help the Aged before moving onto Imperial Cancer Research Fund where he was Head of Marketing and won 'Charity Direct Marketeer of the Year'.

James Garvey
James is a partner at Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank. He is responsible for marketing the firms bond market services to European clients, corporates, financial institutions and governments. He has been at Goldman Sachs for seven years and is on the board of the firm's Charitable Contributions Committee. Previous employers include Union Bank of Switzerland and Citigroup. A Civil Engineering graduate from Trinity College Dublin, James is married with three children and lives in London.

Professor Tunde Zack-Williams

Born in Sierra Leone, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams is the Head of Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. He is a member of the British Academy Africa Panel and is the current (2006-2008) President of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom. He is the author of several books, articles and reviews on the political economy of Africa and the African diaspora. His research includes: the role of child soldiers in the civil wars in West Africa, diamond mining and underdevelopment in Sierra Leone, structural adjustment programmes in Africa, state and society in Africa and the Africa diaspora. Tunde is a ‘True Red’, supporting the only team with five UEFA wins. He is married with two children.