Women & Children First - Trustees
Hazel Slavin (Chair)
Hazel is a Health Promotion and Communications specialist with particular expertise in sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. She was Principal Lecturer in Health Promotion at South Bank University, London. She has worked on short- and long-term projects in many countries in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, and for various donors and institutions including AMREF, AusAid, BBC World Service Trust, British Council, DFID, EC, FHI, FPA, Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation, Marie Stopes International, Save the Children (UK), WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
She worked on an innovative project for BBC World Service Training in India, training radio and television producers to make sex education programmes. She has an MSc in Health Education, an MA in Social Anthropology and two post graduate Diplomas, in Education and in Human Sexuality (sex therapy training).
Patricia Hindmarsh (Vice Chair)
Patricia has twenty-one years’ experience as a senior international development executive and manager operating at a strategic level in the voluntary sector. As Director of External Relations and Resource Development at Marie Stopes International (MSI), she built from scratch the External Relations and Resource Mobilisation team, evolving the structure, systems, procedures and setting strategy. Her work on Public Affairs, Media and Parliamentary Advocacy, Publications Production aimed at both positioning MSI as the leading agency in its field and building awareness of a range of complex issues among a variety of audiences. Prior to working at MSI Patricia had many years experience in education, counselling and training.
Anthony Costello (Honorary Secretary)
Anthony Costello is Professor of International Child Health and Director of the UCL Institute for Global Health and UCL Centre for International Health and Development. After clinical training as a paediatrician, and research in neonatology at University College Hospital, London, he spent three years in western Nepal with Save the Children Fund where he gained extensive experience in the management of primary health care programmes. He is currently collaborating with projects in Nepal, Bangladesh, India and Malawi in order to produce strategic research to improve maternal and child health.
Peter Clokey (Treasurer)
Peter is a senior partner in the corporate finance practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has extensive international experience, having led a World Bank project in Tanzania and advised clients in the Middle East and across south-east Asia, where he lived for several years. He previously sat on the Board of Directors of a listed company and currently sits on the Council of the Society of Share and Business Valuers.
Ron Finlay
Ron Finlay is a founding director of PR consultancy, Fishburn Hedges, and has over 25 years’ experience in corporate communications, advising clients in the public and private sectors. He leads Fishburn Hedges’ health practice, running several government public health campaigns, and was a member of the expert panel on consumers and markets consulted for the White Paper, ‘Choosing Health’. He has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the RSA.
Jenny Goodwin
Jenny is a freelance consultant with twenty-six years experience in international child health and health sector development. Her key areas of expertise are child health, child nutrition and reproductive health. Prior to becoming a consultant she spent twenty years with Save the Children UK, filling various roles including Regional Coordinator for South and Central Asia. Recent consultancies have included reviews and evaluations in Africa, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, proposal writing and development of strategic plans. She has a Masters degree in Community Health from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Paola de Leo
Currently Executive Director of Brightwide, a new website featuring the very best of social and political cinema, Paola was formerly Head of the Global Major Donor Programme for Amnesty International. Since 2000 she has dedicated herself to marketing, communications and major donor fundraising for the non-profit sector, working with GOAL UK, Children in Need Institute (CINI) Calcutta, “The Sphere Project” - Care International UK and Save the Children. Prior to her not-for-profit career, she worked in the private sector covering management positions at Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse.
Tony Williams
Tony is Reader in Child Nutrition and Consultant in Neonatal Paediatrics at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in London. He has thirty years clinical experience in paediatrics and has a particular interest in infant and childhood nutrition. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the British Association for Perinatal Medicine. He has worked with a number of governmental and non-governmental organisations in the field of child nutrition.
Mary Walsh
Mary is communications specialist with over 20 years experience of managing communications programmes for a number of high profile businesses. Since October 2009, she has been Director of Corporate Communications at Eurostar, the rail service between the UK and the continent, and is responsible for managing communications with the media, stakeholders and employees. She joined Eurostar from Lloyds TSB Group where she spent 10 years, initially as Head of Media Relations and then as Director of Corporate Relations. Mary began her career in PR consultancy at Ogilvy and Mather running campaigns for a range of corporate and consumer businesses. Prior to Lloyds TSB she was Director of Public Relations for PKF, the professional services firm.
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