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Chairman: David Jordan OBE

Board level environmental consultant and advisor

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David is the former Executive Director of Operations at the Environment Agency (2008-2015). Before taking on the role as Chairman he was already involved with Sand Dams Worldwide, as a donor and a business mentor to former Executive Director, Simon Maddrell. He brings a strong track record in operational delivery, change management, strategic development and leadership from a variety of Executive and board-level roles. Read more about David here.

Published: 1st July, 2018

Updated: 21st March, 2022

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Trustee: Mark Murphy

Director, Oyster Luxury Travel & Diving Ltd

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Mark has over 15 years domestic and international Marketing experience working with some of the UK's largest plc's. More recently Mark formed and now runs his own International travel company. Read more about Mark here.

Published: 3rd July, 2018

Updated: 23rd October, 2021

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Trustee: Barbara Busby

Organisation Development Consultant, NHS Wales

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Barbara is passionate about organisation, team and individual development based on over 30 years experience across the public and private sectors, spanning defence, environment, utilities and latterly the NHS. She has been an Executive Director and Board member so understands the challenges of governance and leading organisations. Much of her work has been enabling and supporting Directors and senior managers in organisation design and development, shaping and implementing successful change, introducing leadership development and driving talent management initiatives as well as leading her own functional teams. Read more about Barbara here.

Published: 5th July, 2018

Updated: 9th August, 2021

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Trustee: Alex Day

Director, The Big Give

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The Big Give is a non-profit organisation which is responsible for the UK's biggest online match funding campaign, the Christmas Challenge. Prior to joining the Big Give, Alex spent eight years working in various roles in the international development and humanitarian response sector including two years as Director of the UK office of the international NGO, Medair and a stint as Grants & Institutions Manager at Sand Dams Worldwide. He holds a BA in Business & Geography from Exeter University and completed an MA in Charity Management from St Mary's University in 2015 which included a thesis entitled ‘Impact Bonds: The future of disaster resilience funding?’. Read more about Alex here.

Published: 6th July, 2018

Updated: 21st March, 2022

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Trustee: Pam Gilder

Communications, public policy and governance expert

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Pam Gilder has worked in public policy and communications for over 30 years. Starting out as a field ecologist (advising farmers on how to combine productive farming with caring for the environment), she then moved from the field into public policy and advocacy working first for the Countryside Commission and then the Countryside Agency, helping to design and shape legislation that continues to protect the environment in the UK today. She led a number of ambitious initiatives including the New National Forest, a project in the Midlands which uses large-scale tree planting to improve the local environment and provide a place for millions of people to enjoy. More recently Pam was Director of Corporate Affairs at the Environment Agency where she was responsible for advising at Board level on corporate governance and communications. She led a number of campaigns and crisis communications during periods of drought, flooding and environmental pollution events. During her career Pam visited China on a Winston Churchill Fellowship to see their environmental programmes in action and visited North America to how the national forest estate was being managed for conservation and public benefit. Since finishing full-time work in 2016, Pam acts as a mentor for mid-career women and also volunteers with charities in Bristol. Read more about Pam here.

Published: 7th July, 2018

Updated: 9th August, 2021

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Trustee: Faith Lyons

Humanitarian crisis manager, partnership development and project management

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Faith Lyons is an experienced programmes director and international humanitarian crisis manager, focusing on team leadership, partnership development and project management. She is the former Director of Partnerships at Lightful, a tech for good company that wants to help charities and social enterprises simplify their work and amplify their impact. Previously, she was General Manager at charity: water UK and Director of Programs at charity: water (USA), an international nonprofit with a mission to bring clean, safe drinking water to the 663 million people worldwide who don’t have it. Faith has a Masters in International Development with over 10 years of experience in development, education and humanitarian work. Faith was deployed everywhere from Haiti and Nepal to South Sudan and Iraq. She led teams to acquire millions of dollars in funding and to plan effective humanitarian responses with Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), Shelter and Health programming. Faith has traveled to over 60 countries and now lives in London. Read more about Faith here.

Published: 8th July, 2018

Updated: 9th August, 2021

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Trustee: Sarah Field

Business capacity and organisational scale builder

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Sarah is a seasoned entrepreneur and management consultant, with over twenty years of experience of building organisational and operational capacity for rapid business growth. As a co-founder she developed a new business model from scratch and franchised it internationally, focused on business systems, teams, governance, training and risk management. She has coached and prepared other founders and teams helping them achieve scale and investment, and honing operating models accordingly. With the foundation of an international education and career that shapes a global network of friends and colleagues, she enjoys creating new connections, charity volunteering, diving, riding and walking, and has recently moved from rural Hampshire UK to Manhattan, New York City. Read more about Sarah here.

Published: 1st September, 2021

Updated: 15th November, 2021

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