Trustees

Diane joined Concern Worldwide (UK) board as Trustee in February 2017. A qualified Social Researcher, Diane completed a PhD in Gender at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a MSC in Gender, Culture and Politics from Birkbeck University of London. She also has an MSc in NGO Management from Cass Business School.

Diane is a Founding Partner of PDC: Professional Diversity Consultants. PDC provides research based advisory services relating to organisational approaches to diversity in employment through both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.

Previously Diane worked as Journalist in Jordan for the Jordan Times and Jerusalem Star Newspapers. She also worked for Young and Rubicam (Zambia) Ltd as Head of Public Relations, and The Financial Times Newspaper and FT Conferences as their Business Representative for Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Diane is also author of a book titled, Black Women in Management: Paid Work and Family Formations, Palgrave MacMillan.

Nikki Stones leads Demand Generation for Privitar, a data privacy software company. After graduating, Nikki spent 11 years at KPMG before going on to hold a number of senior, strategic marketing roles across a range of industries. Nikki joined the Concern UK fundraising committee in 2018 and is a committee member for Women of Concern. She has a deep interest in poverty alleviation and reducing inequality.

Linda has a background in education but has spent most of her working career in international development and humanitarian work. She recently joined Kids Club Kampala as Interim CEO where she oversees the strategic direction and overall management of the organisation. Her last permanent role was Executive Director for SOS Sahel UK, where she successfully led the closure of the UK charity as the African partners are thriving without the support of the UK office, which is something to celebrate.  Before joining SOS Sahel, Linda worked for a short while with Oxfam GB in the Humanitarian Department.

Linda started working for Concern Worldwide as a volunteer in Mozambique in 1996.  She then became a staff member in 1999 and continued to work for Concern in Rwanda, Eritrea and Sierra Leone in different management and implementation roles and as Country Director in Nepal and Ethiopia, with two years working in the policy unit in Concern Worldwide in Dublin as Education Adviser.

She holds an MA in Development and Emergency Practice from Brookes University, Oxford.

Jemima has been a trustee of Concern Worldwide UK since 2014, and sits on the fundraising sub-committee. Her career focus has been working with companies – from multi-national corporations to small social enterprises – on how to harness the power of businesses to address social and environmental challenges and opportunities. She is currently Agriculture & Responsible Sourcing Lead at the John Lewis Partnership, responsible for strategy and implementation of programmes on human rights, raw material sourcing and agriculture in both Waitrose and John Lewis.  Jemima has a first class degree in Human Sciences from Oxford University, a Postgrad Certificate from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and has undertaken a year’s professional leadership programme in social enterprise.

Rob has more than 26 years of financial and commercial experience in various energy sectors and has been an FCA since 1991.

He is currently a partner in Kinetix Corporate Finance, an advisory firm he co-founded in 2010, which is exclusively focussed on the cleantech and sustainability sectors.

After graduating, he spent 8 years with Arthur Andersen before joining the FTSE 100, LASMO plc, ultimately becoming Group Financial Controller.  In 2001 he became FD of an acquisitive VC-backed service company until facilitating its sale in 2003. In 2004 he was central to the preparation and marketing for AIM flotation of a renewable energy company.  Rob then spent 6 years as FD of one of the UK’s premier anaerobic digestion developers.

George is the Founding Partner of Audience, a Fundraising and Communications Agency for the Not-for Profit sector, working for charities across the Republic of Ireland and in the UK. Prior to setting up her own agency, George was Managing Director for TW CAT, a Fundraising Agency, and from 2000 to 2006, George was the lead in supporting Concern Worldwide with their Individual Giving Fundraising programme.

George studied Marketing and Social Anthropology at Keele University. Most recently George was an Associate Lecturer on the Post-Graduate degree in Fundraising and Development at Chichester University.

Bernadette is the Vice-Chair of Concern UK and a member of its Audit and Finance Committee. She sits on the Board of Directors of Concern Worldwide

Bernadette has supported development agencies and governments on a wide range of economic and social development topics. For this, she has been recognised by DevEx as one of London's top 40 international development leaders under 40 years of age, recognised for shaping and impacting on aid and development. She has a deep interest in development aid effectiveness, poverty alleviation and inclusion of marginalised groups.

Peggy Walters is a policy and communications specialist in the area of global health. She is currently Communications Director with the World Heart Federation. Peggy was educated at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, where she read Communications and Sociology and holds a Masters’ degree in International Communications and Development.

After school in Edinburgh,  Donald took a degree in chemistry from Oxford. Since then he has always worked in the financial sector, latterly spending 25 years in senior roles with RBS in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Asia.   His most recent roles at RBS included Executive Chairman of the Asia Pacific region, based in Hong Kong, Executive Chairman of Corporate and Institutional Banking based in London, and latterly Executive Chairman of Private Banking (which included Coutts bank).

He was also chairman of the Edinburgh College of Art, and a member of Court at Edinburgh University. He is also non-Executive Chairman of JCB Finance Ltd.

Colin sits on the Consumer Foods Board of Borb Bia and up till December 2018 was CEO of Glanbia Consumer Foods – Ireland’s largest consumer food company. He served for several years on the board of the Marketing Institute of Ireland and chaired Ibec’s Food Drink Ireland trade association.

Colin has worked on a number of government and non-government advisory groups looking at the role of industry, agriculture and food in a wider context. Colin is an alumnus of Trinity College Dublin and UCD, is a Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland since 1999, and holds a Diploma in Non Executive Directorship from the Financial Times. Colin currently sits on both the Board of Concern Worldwide and of Concern Worldwide (UK).