The DEC is made up of 14 member charities who are experts in humanitarian aid and specialise in different areas of disaster response. They come together to speak in one voice and make fundraising more efficient when we launch an appeal.
Trustees board
https://www.dec.org.uk/article/board-of-trustees
Chair of Trustees
Sue Inglish
Sue Inglish has spent 30 years as a broadcast journalist. She was Head of Political Programmes for BBC News until 2015 responsible for the BBC’s political, parliamentary and election news, programmes and digital content... She chairs the board of the International News Safety Institute, a charity working for the safety of journalists around the world and is a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. She is chair of the Royal Television Society’s TV Journalism awards.
Vice Chair
Andy Green
Andy Green holds a number of Chairman, NED and advisory roles.. He chairs IG Group plc, a global leader in online trading and the Digital Catapult, an initiative to help grow the UK Digital Economy. He is SID at Avanti plc, a global broadband satellite operator. He is advisory Chairman at npGroup, which offers technical resourcing solutions across the world. He also advises Tagos, DockOn and the Eight Great Technologies Fund.
He is President of UK Space, co-chair of the UK Space Leadership Council a member of the CBI President's Committee, a trustee of ABESU and The Tech Partnership, and is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.
Recent previous roles include SID at ARM Holdings PLC, board member of the CBI, member of the Digital Economy Council and Chairman of DockOn AG.
Andy was CEO and a member of the board of Logica plc from January 2008 to August 2012. Prior to joining Logica, he had been a board member at
BT Group plc from 2001. During his 21 years at BT, Andy held many senior positions, including CEO BT Global Services and CEO BT Openworld.
He previously served on boards in Europe, Asia and the US, including, until July 2008, the board of Navteq Inc. He began his career with Shell and subsequently joined Deloitte Haskins & Sells.
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Independent Trustee
Peter Barron
Peter Barron is global head of communications for the online payments platform Stripe.
Previously, he spent 20 years in TV news and current affairs, followed by a decade at Google handling communications.
He was editor of the
BBC's Newsnight from 2004-2008, and previously deputy editor at Channel 4 News and ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald.
He joined Google in 2008 and went on to become Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs for the company in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
He is also a trustee of the House of Illustration.
Independent Trustee
Tanya Steele
Tanya Steele leads the UK office of
WWF, the world’s largest independent conservation organisation. She heads up WWF-UK at a critical time in which she is leading the delivery of an ambitious strategy to tackle the catastrophic decline in species and habitats across the world...
Tanya began her career in the tech industry working in product development, marketing and communications in senior roles for
Siemens and BT. After nearly 15 years in the private sector, and inspired by a volunteering assignment with the
Red Cross, Tanya brought her corporate experience to the charity sector, joining
Save the Children in 2004 as Executive Director of Marketing, Fundraising and Communications, and she later led the organisation as interim Chief Executive.
Independent Trustee
Charles Stewart-Smith
Charles Stewart-Smith is a Managing Director at Teneo Blue Rubicon which he joined in 2013, having previously served on the company’s Advisory Board. Charles started his career in journalism: on local newspapers in the North East, before joining the
BBC and then ITN, where he served as Editor of News At Ten.
In 1992 Charles co-founded the media and government relations consultancy, Luther Pendragon.In 2000 Charles co-founded a similar business in Brussels called GPlus. He sold both companies in 2005. .. Charles has helped co-found two charities, both in the international development sector:
The Romanian Orphanage Trust, which grew to become what is now EveryChild, and the medical emergency relief charity,
Merlin, which has now become part of Save The Children. Charles has also served as a trustee of the political think-tank, Policy Exchange.
MEMBER TRUSTEES
Action Against Hunger UK
Jean-Michel Grand
..He represents Action Against Hunger UK on the International Executive Committee of the organisation’s International Network (which is present in over 50 countries). He was a board member of VOICE, the network of European Humanitarian NGOs, from 2011 to 2016 and has been a member of the 'sounding board' seminars on effective management hosted by
Bain and Company since 2006. He is also a director of ACFIN trademark licensing company...
ActionAid UK
Frances Longley
..Since March 2018 Frances has co-chaired the UK NGO sector working group on Leadership and Culture for Safeguarding.
Age International
Chris Roles
...Chris is a member of the Investment committee of Venturesome, the Charity Aid Foundation’s social investment arm, and is also a member of the
BBC’s Appeals Advisory Committee. He studied History and Economics at Oxford University and has an MBA from the London Business School...
British Red Cross
Mike Adamson
Mike Adamson is Chief Executive of the
British Red Cross, the country’s leading voluntary crisis response organisation, and part of the worldwide Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
CAFOD
Christine Allen
..Her career began as a field worker with the Justice and Peace Commission in the Archdiocese of Liverpool in 1987 and as CAFOD’s campaigns coordinator in 1989...
CARE International UK
Laurie Lee
Laurie joined CARE International UK as Chief Executive in August 2014. He previously worked for the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he led the team working on policy, advocacy and government relations in Africa.
Christian Aid
Amanda Khozi Mukwashi
Concern Worldwide
Danny Harvey
Islamic Relief Worldwide
Waseem Ahmad
Oxfam GB
Dr Danny Sriskandarajah
In the media, Danny has been a regular contributor to outlets including
BBC World Service, the Guardian, Al Jazeera and HuffPost.
Plan International UK
Rose Caldwell
Rose Caldwell became Chief Executive of
Plan International UK in 2019. Previously she was Executive Director of Concern Worldwide (UK), serving since 2008.
Save the Children UK
Gwen Hines
Gwen joined
Save the Children in March 2018...she was UK Executive Director for the
World Bank Group (2012-2015), where she helped to broker major reforms to the Bank's procurement and evaluation policies and provided oversight of Britain's $5 billion funding. Gwen has also held the post of Country Director for DFID in Bangladesh and Malawi, and she has played a variety of strategic roles shaping the UK's engagement with Africa through the G8, DFID's strategy on HIV/AIDS, and approaches to EU enlargement.
Tearfund
Nigel Harris
Nigel Harris became chief executive of Tearfund, the humanitarian and development international NGO, in November 2015. .. Nigel has a strong background in finance, relief and development. From 2011 to 2015 he was the chief executive of Farm Africa, a long-term rural development NGO focused on east Africa, and previously was chief of staff and chief operating officer at Save the Children UK. He has also worked as a consultant for the Department for International Development and Tearfund, and from 2010 to 2015 was a trustee of Medair, the Swiss-based humanitarian NGO. From 2004 to 2008, Nigel was the chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital, the charitable think tank and consultancy. He spent the earlier part of his career as an investment banker for Schroders.
World Vision UK
Mark Sheard
Mark Sheard took over as Interim Chief Executive at World Vision UK in March 2020. Mark has been deeply engaged with World Vision since 2007, serving on the Board for nine years between 2007-2016, including a four-year spell as Chair. Since coming to the end of his term on the Board, Mark and his wife Lois have continued their association with World Vision as ambassadors to High Level Donors and in Church links...
Mark enjoyed a successful career in advertising and marketing, creating one the of the UK’s most successful marketing communications businesses before merging it into a multinational group in 2000. In 2001, Mark founded the Whatnext? Consultancy to provide marketing and corporate development advice to commercial and ethical organisations.
In 2017 Mark was appointed by Archbishop Justin Welby to the Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England and currently serves in a variety of roles in including as Chair of the Mission and Public Affairs Council, and Co-Chair of the Evangelism and Discipleship Steering Group.