Rachael is the CEO of Climate Outreach. Climate Outreach helps people and organisations tell a new climate story. As CEO, Rachael works closely with the board to ensure effective governance and growth of the organisation and delivers the organisation’s overall strategy, goals and impact.

Previously, Rachael was Director of PlaceShapers, the network for community-based housing associations. She led strategy and direction for the organisation, delivering member services, policy and campaigns with members. Prior to this, Rachael was Head of Oxfam’s UK programme, leading Oxfam’s advocacy, campaigning and programme work on UK poverty. Rachael joined Oxfam from Shelter, where she held various senior policy and campaigning roles. Before Shelter, Rachael worked as a support worker and in hostels for homeless people.

Rachael served for seven years as chair of Angel Shed Theatre Company, an inclusive theatre charity in Islington. She has also volunteered with Help Refugees and is involved in local campaigns in her community.

Ian is an experienced Finance Director and Chief Operating Officer. He has a mix of not for profit and commercial experience; having worked in the oil and gas industry in a range of senior roles in finance and associated functions, he moved to the not for profit sector in 2007.

Having worked for organisations such as British Red Cross, WaterAid, EveryChild and the WEA, he is currently the Director of Finance and Information Systems at the Nuffield Foundation, and has served on a number of charity boards including Family for Every Child, ECPAT UK and the Refugee Therapy Centre. Ian lives in Oxfordshire.

Anne’s career began in housing rights advice before moving to supported housing where she gained a reputation for great services that engaged and empowered service users. After a successful spell in Adult Social Care commissioning, she was for more than a decade Operations Director at the largest rural housing association in the UK. She helped build an enviable reputation for high quality energy efficient homes and services.

Anne is an experienced voluntary non-exec director, in the not-for-profit sector, and is currently the Chair of Homeless Link and board member of Hightown Housing and Cluid Housing in Ireland. She works independently as a management consultant and interim director where she supports organisations to transform services by animating their social purpose.

Clare is an experienced and award winning programme-maker. She has been responsible for popular formats such as Great British Bake-Off as well as a wide range of individual films examining the fabric of Britain.

Her engagement with refugees began with several films about immigration policy and experience. She was responsible for the multi-award winning 2016/17 series following refugees looking for a better life, Exodus, Our Journey to Europe and its sequel, Exodus: Our Journey Continues (BBC One). She commissioned A Very British History (BBC Four), two series about the immigrant experience in different British cities including Leicester Ugandan Asians, Vietnamese boat people, London Chinese, Birmingham Irish and Leeds Jews.

In 2020, Clare volunteered in Calais with Care4Calais. On her return, she set up a volunteer network to support refugees in hotels in South London. The 50-strong team now offers food, clothing, access to lawyers, welfare and advice to a changing population of about 500 and works with councils and community organizations to deliver support.

Previously Clare was for eight years a governor at London’s Graveney School, one of the capital’s largest comprehensives where she took a special interest in the media element of the curriculum.

Diana was the CEO of Victim Support from 2018 until July 2023 after being the Director of Operations from 2015-2018.

Prior to Victim Support, Diana was Director of Operations at Shelter for seven years where she was responsible for the charity’s advice and support services. She has also worked for four London boroughs and three housing associations, managing a wide range of housing, development and care services.

She was a trustee of the Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network from 2014 until January 2023 and was chair between 2015-21. She was a non-judicial member of the Sentencing Council from 2019 until October 2023 and a trustee of the National Emergencies Trust from 2019-2021

Dr Gerry Power is Partner and Managing Director at Purpose, based in London.

For more than 25 years he has designed and directed multi-country global impact, measurement and learning studies on narrative change, campaigns, communication strategy, creative execution and public opinion for multilaterals (British Council, UNICEF, UN Women, WHO), foundations (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Democracy Fund, Luminate, Wellcome Trust) and NGOs (BRAC, HIVOS, SightSavers). His work has a particular focus on prejudice, equality and social justice.

Gerry was formerly Chief Research Officer at M&C Saatchi World Services. He also served as Director of Research and Learning at BBC Media Action, establishing an award-winning global research network across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He was Vice President with Magid Associates, the media research and consulting firm in New York and London. Gerry has also served on the faculties at UCLA, UDLAP (Mexico), the University of Texas and the London School of Economics.

Gerry is an avid traveller, especially to Ardmore, County Waterford, in his native Ireland.

Ghino is a youth and community strategist. She started out as a youth worker supporting female participation and inclusion for young people with special needs and disabilities. As a young Kurdish refugee, she found a new home in London, and her formative experiences continue to inspire her work within communities.

Ghino holds a postgraduate qualification in Law and a MA in Applied Anthropology and hopes to continue research in the way language and stories shape our environment. She has shaped youth engagement strategies to effect change within communities, both in the UK and abroad. She has also worked with the business sector to develop meaningful Social Responsibility models. Ghino is currently working to improve outcomes for those affected by serious youth violence and exploitation across the UK working with national charities that lead in systems change.

Ghino is a big fan of Sarah Kay poetry, and is the mother to two little rock stars.

Harriet is a senior leader with experience across a breadth of sectors. She has spent over 20 years as a management consultant and Partner at PA Consulting, where she worked across government, health and life sciences sectors, helping organisations shape and deliver strategic change. Her early career was in charities and the NHS.

She has recently moved back to the charity sector, and is currently Deputy Chief Executive at RNID, where her role is to deliver the new strategy that makes this heritage charity relevant in the digital age.

Harriet lives in North London with her husband and three children. They are a regular host family for Refugees at Home.

Lyndall Stein has worked building support for international organisations working on a wide range of issues including the liberation of South Africa, access to treatments for HIV/AIDS, and poverty/inequality. She has worked in a variety of roles as CEO, and as a Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Campaigns- in a wide range of organisations including the African National Congress  ActionAid, Care International, Concern Worldwide The Terrence Higgins Trust, The Big Issue, BOND, Practical Action, VSO, The International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Save the Children and WWF UK

She now specialises in senior interim assignments and has been a speaker and trainer both internationally and in the UK and regularly volunteers including projects in Ghana and during the Rohingya in Bangladesh. She was awarded the 2017 Lifetime achievement award by the Institute of Fundraising, is a Board member of Greenpeace UK and a regular contributor to the The Fair Observer.

Marc is a young professional in the field of human rights, forced migration and humanitarian protection, and currently works on advancing our understanding of how climate change exacerbates the vulnerabilities of those affected by instability and conflict.

Marc was born in Algeria and raised in the French care system, before being adopted by British parents. This lived experience instilled an early awareness of the structural obstacles to human mobility—particularly facing those from the Global South.

Marc worked for several years in civil society-led Mediterranean Search & Rescue operations, followed by roles in the UN System, Council of Europe and Red Cross Movement. Marc is an inaugural member of the Red Cross Youth Advisory Group on Climate, and also sits on the Global Centre for Climate Mobility’s Board of Advisers.

Sayyeda recently joined Concern Worldwide UK as Executive Director. Prior to this she worked for Save the Children for fifteen years, where she held roles across Fundraising and Marketing, Policy and Advocacy, and Operations. This included stints in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Tanzania.

From 2016-2024, she was Director of Partnerships and Philanthropy, building relationships with philanthropists, foundations and the private sector in teams that have delivered more than £300 million for children’s rights. In 2022, she was seconded to lead an initiative developing strategic partnerships in the Gulf.

She is also Save the Children UK’s co-leadership sponsor of efforts to shift power from London to operations and local partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America.