Dr. Ian Goldin

Dr. Ian Goldin took up his position as the first Director of the James Martin School in September 2006.

Goldin was Vice President of the World Bank (2003-2006) and prior to that the Bank's Director of Development Policy (2001-2003). He served on the Bank's senior management team, and was directly responsible for its relationship with the UK and all other European, North America and developed countries. From 1996 to 2001 he was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and served as an adviser to President Nelson Mandela. He succeeded in transforming the Bank to become the leading agent of development in the 14 countries of Southern Africa. During this period, Dr. Goldin served on several Government committees and Boards, and was Finance Director for South Africa’s Olympic Bid.

Previously, Dr. Goldin was Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, and Program Director at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, where he directed the Programs on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development.

Masood Ahmed

Masood Ahmed has been Director of the External Relations Department since May 1, 2006.

Before taking up this position, Mr. Ahmed served for three years as Director General for Policy and International Development at the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID). Between 2000-03, Mr. Ahmed was Deputy Director in the IMF's Policy Development and Review Department. In this role, he served as the senior staff focal point for taking forward the IMF's policy work in support of low income member countries and its relationship with the World Bank and other development agencies.

Between 1979 and 2000, Mr. Ahmed held a number of positions in the World Bank. He worked for about 10 years on programs and projects in a variety of countries and, for a further 10 years, on international economic policy relating to debt, aid effectiveness, trade and commodities, and global economic prospects. As Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Mr. Ahmed was the senior World Bank manager responsible for the development and operationalisation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach as well as the HIPC Debt Initiative. He also served concurrently for a year as Acting Vice President for Private Sector Development and Infrastructure.

Richard Dowden

Richard Dowden is director of the Royal African Society.

Dowden first went to Africa as a volunteer teacher in 1971, and returned in 1983 as a journalist, where he began working for the Times. In 1986, he became Africa editor of the Independent, and in 1995 took up the post of Africa editor for the Economist, writing numerous highly influential works on African affairs.

Dowden has additionally made three television documentaries on Africa, for the BBC and Channel 4.

Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo

In 2003 Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo was unanimously elected as first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, assuming full authority over the management and administration of the Office. Before this appointment, between 1984-92, as a Prosecutor in Argentina, Dr. Moreno-Ocampo was involved in precedent-setting prosecutions of top military commanders for mass killings and other large-scale human rights abuses.

Dr. Moreno-Ocampo was the Assistant Prosecutor in the “Military Junta” trial against Army commanders accused of masterminding the “dirty war”; acted as the Prosecutor in charge of the extradition from the United States of former Argentine General Carlos Guillermo Suárez Mason; and was involved in the investigation of guerrilla leaders and of those responsible for two military rebellions in Argentina. He also took part in the case against Army commanders accused of malpractice during the Malvinas/Falklands war, as well as in dozens of major cases of corruption.

Alongside this, Dr. Moreno-Ocampo has worked with various NGO’s, as well as acting as the president of Transparency International for Latin America and the Caribbean and sitting on the global Advisory Board and the Board of Transparency International, reducing corruption in business transactions.

Susan Wright

Susan is Director of Medicins du Monde.

Susan joined Medecins du Monde UK in December 2006 after five years in Bosnia and Herzegovina where she worked with Paddy Ashdown as Head of the Rule of Law Department at the Office of the High Representative. She has taught International Criminal Law and worked in Sierra Leone for the war crimes tribunal. She leads the team at Medecins du Monde UK, with a particular focus on advocacy.

Stewart Wallis

Stewart Wallis is executive director of the New Economics Foundation

Stewart graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. After university he joined the World Bank in Washington DC working on industrial and financial development in East Asia. His seven years at the World Bank also included a spell as Administrator of the Young Professionals Programme. He then worked for Robinson Packaging in Derbyshire for nine years, the last five as Managing Director. Stewart joined Oxfam in 1992 as International Director. He was awarded the OBE for services to Oxfam in 2002.

After a brief spell as Oxfam's livelihoods Director, Stewart joined nef as executive director in November 2003. His interests include: global governance, the functioning of markets, the links between development and environmental agendas, and new forms of enterprise.

Alex Jacobs

Alex Jacobs has extensive experience of NGO operations, ranging from field experience in sub-Saharan Africa to management, board, consultancy, and funding agency appointments. He has worked with rural communities and NGOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and many other countries. He has a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University and qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant while working as a private-sector management consultant.

In 1999 Jacobs founded Mango ( www.mango.org.uk), now respected as the leading supplier of financial management services to international NGOs in the UK and abroad.

Mango has participated in major evaluations of humanitarian practice and organisation-wide reviews for registered charities such as ActionAid and TearFund.

Dr Victoria Harris

Dr Victoria Harris set up A4A in June 2005. She has a BSc in astrophysics and PhD in nuclear physics from Imperial College London which she then followed with 5 years in investment banking and 2 further years in banking consultancy, working in the area of securitisation. While seeking a career change into the not for profit sector, Victoria began (though did not finish this time!) a second PhD (in psychology) at Cambridge University working on research with the charity the Autism Research Centre. At the same time she also undertook professional experience in psychology working in some more hostile environments. This influenced her move full time into aid work and post disaster redevelopment, and setting up A4A, after much nagging from the ideas man behind A4A - Maxwell Hutchinson. She is the full-time chief executive of the charity. She likes spreadsheets. Well who doesn't?