Trustees

Dominic Vergine  – Chair of Trustees

Dominic is a co-founder of two technology companies, a non-profit organisation and a charity. He Has worked with governments and international agencies across Europe and Sub Saharan Africa, focusing on technology for International Development (ICT4D).  He is currently driving several initiatives focused on delivering communications to the bottom of the pyramid and exploring how technology can help improve global sustainability. Dominic has been the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Humanitarian Centre since September 2014.

 

 

 

Shelley Gregory-Jones – Vice Chair of Trustees

Shelley has spent most of her career in the not for profit and education sectors in the UK. Before joining the Sixteen as Development Director, she held a similar role at the PHG Foundation which brings together public health and genomics.  Her previous experience also includes several years as the CEO of CamSight – the local charity for visually impaired people living in Cambridge, and Strategy Director of London-based environmental charity Global Action Plan. She has an MBA from the Judge Business School and a degree in Philosophy from Girton College, Cambridge. Shelley has been the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Humanitarian Centre since September 2014.

 

 

Amy Weatherup – Treasurer

Amy has held a number of senior sales, marketing and business development roles at some of the mobile industry’s leading companies, working with both start-ups and multinationals. She was a co-founder and marketing director of STNC Ltd., Light Blue Optics   and others. Amy set up the Cambridge University i-Teams programme  which she has run since inception in 2006, and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University. She is a Director of Audio Analytic , a Trustee of Birthlight and The Villiers Park Educational Trust, as well as a primary school governor. She is also a founder of The Breech Babies Club  and the Breech Birth UK Facebook support group.

 

Ben Britton – Member Trustee

Ben is Development Director of the Mountain Trust, a Humanitarian Centre charity member focusing on health, education and human rights in Nepal. In this role he is charged with fundraising, internship coordination, project development and implementation and website management. Ben has an academic background in both Development and Education having completed his undergraduate degree in Development and Peace from the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and subsequently his Masters from Cambridge in 2011. Ben has extensive travel experience in India and Nepal and speaks fluent Nepali.  Ben was chosen to represent his fellow members on the Humanitarian Centre board of trustees in March 2014.

 

Theodore Menelik – Member Trustee

Theodore Menelik is a sociologist and a Congolese citizen residing in Cambridge. His love for his country and its people led him to found Menelik Education in 2003, a charity working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a branch in Cambridge, UK. Menelik Education mainly works in the DRC, but also regionally and internationally. Its goals are to produce information, reflection and action on human sustainable development, national and international solidarity, human rights, gender equality, and others subjects. Since 2003, Theodore has also been working on issues related to education, health, and community empowerment. Theodore is a lecturer in Education and Development at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and a visiting lecturer at the Institut Superieur de Statistique of Kinshasa (DRC). Menelik Education has been a Humanitarian Centre member since 2008 and Theodore was chosen to represent his fellow members on the Humanitarian Centre board of trustees in March 2014.

 

Steve Jones

Steve Jones is a Founding Trustee and former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Humanitarian Centre.  He is an international development consultant with over 30 years’ experience in UK/Europe, Asia, Africa, the CIS, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. He is a partner in a small Cambridge-based consultancy firm – Meta-Development LLP- and specialises in: leading design and evaluation missions for social protection, livelihoods, health and education and climate change and post-disaster reconstruction programmes; management consulting and organisational development; facilitation of strategic workshops  and international conferences, process facilitation, and training on programme cycle management, including logical framework analysis. His clients include DFID, World Bank, European Union, NGOs and private sector firms.

 

Andrew Lamb

After graduating, Andrew worked with the University of Cambridge Office for Community Affairs and co-founded the Humanitarian Centre. He worked for more than three years with disaster relief organisation RedR UK, including working at their office in Nairobi, and became a trustee of the charity in 2011. Andrew is a director of the Appropedia Foundation which runs the Appropedia website – a sustainability wiki. He was the technical editor of the world’s first UNESCO Engineering Report and was a Visiting Lecturer for EngineeringUK. Andrew became the first staff Chief Executive of EWB-UK in December 2008 after winning a World of Difference grant from the Vodafone Foundation.

 

Charlotte Sankey

Charlotte has an extensive career in publishing, design and public relations of over 20 years. She has been running her own publishing and PR consultancies for the last ten years, during which she founded Cambridge Agenda magazine. She has also worked in management roles across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Her skills are in writing, PR, graphic design and strategy. She is the Director of Creative Warehouse a PR and Publishing agency based in Cambridge.

 

 

 

Bhaskar Vira

Bhaskar is a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He specialises in environmental and development economics. Research into policy process has included work as a Co-ordinating Lead Author with the Responses Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the UK National Ecosystem Assessment. Dr Vira is also engaged in collaborative work with colleagues in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, with projects including trade-offs in the context of ecosystem services; how policy to address biodiversity loss can learn from the climate change experience; ecosystem-based adaptation strategies; and the development and use of toolkits to assess ecosystem services at site level.

 

Alison Walsham

Alison, has been involved with the Humanitarian Centre since its inception. After working for three years in the engineering industry, she spent three years in East Africa doing voluntary work. Following a career break, bringing up four children and doing some community work, she spent 22 years as a Careers Adviser at Cambridge University. Initially working on the life science sectors, her main focus became not-for-profit employment, international development and environment. She has visited a wide range of developing countries exploring employers, programmes and projects, gaining insights into the working lives of those in the field.

 

 

Our sincere thanks to Mustafa Beg for donating his time and talent to take these portraits. Find more of Mustafa’s photos via his Twitter account here.