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 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).

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.

Sangita Shah
Sangita is a director of Commonwealth Business Council Consulting. She was previously a director of the Leading Edge Strategy Company and worked for Ernst and Young, Mars and at Unilever where she undertook a number of assignments to Africa. She is also president of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, the world’s oldest journalistic association.

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 working as a freelance consultant in CSR and human rights.

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.