CARE International UK Board of Trustees

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 co-founded Techtran Group Limited and was the Chief Operating Officer of Techtran when it was acquired by IP Group in January 2005. Previously, she spent five years at McKinsey & Co where she consulted primarily to the pharmaceutical and health care sectors. Prior to McKinsey, Alison spent four years as a development chemist for Zeneca, performing technical roles in the speciality chemicals and agrochemicals divisions. Alison holds an MBA from Manchester Business School, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and a first class degree in chemistry from the University of Glasgow.

Alison is a board director of IP Group plc, a company that specialises in investment in early stage businesses from University research, as well as on the board of several high growth technology companies.  She co-founded Techtran Group, a commercialisation services company, and was its Chief Operating Officer when it was acquired by IP Group in 2005.  Previously she worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company and as a development chemist for Zeneca plc.  She is also a trustee for UnLtd, a pioneer in social entrepreneurship.

Martin Hayman
Martin was formerly general counsel and company secretary at Cadbury Schweppes Plc and Standard Chartered Plc. Martin has been a trustee of the Institute of Business Ethics and chair of Mediation UK. He is now a director of Financial Objects PLC, a special adviser to Standard Chartered Bank Africa on its anti-malaria  and sight programmes, and is on the steering committee of the Coalition against Malaria advocacy group.

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.

Bill Lawes CA
Widely experienced in international banking, Bill recently retired as managing director of JP Morgan Chase. He was formerly with ANZ Bank (including Grindlays Bank) and Deloitte & Touche. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

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.

Susan Liautaud

Susan Liautaud consults pro bono for non-profit organisations internationally with particular focus on France, the US, and the UK through her own UK non-profit structure Imaginer – Advisers for the Social Enterprise. Particular areas of expertise include accountability and governance, ethics, strategic planning, board development/evaluation/committee structure, programme development, and personnel matters. Previously she served as the Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and as a corporate and securities lawyer in the New York and Paris offices of Sullivan & Cromwell. Current board service includes the American Hospital of Paris Board of Governors, the US Advisory Board of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, and the Comite de la Charte (a French non-profit self-regulatory accountability organisation).

Susan holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a specialty in non-profit accountability, a JD from Columbia Law School with special certification in international law, a MA in Chinese Studies from the University of London SOAS, and a MA in Humanities and two BAs from Stanford University.

Angela Cluff

Angela is a fundraising consultant. She is deputy director of The Management Centre (=mc), a leading consultancy and training company for the not for profit sector. She works extensively on fundraising strategy projects and major donor initiatives in the UK and internationally. Before joining =mc she was deputy director of fundraising at NSPCC where she was instrumental in the design and delivery of the Full Stop Campaign. Before joining the voluntary sector 15 years ago, she worked in advertising and market research.