UK board of trustees
Women for Women International could not provide direct financial and emotional support to women living on the margins of hope without the backing of a global community of dedicated trustees, staff, volunteers, generous donors, sponsors, supporters and friends.
Our supporters contribute resources, time, and energy to help make the future brighter for thousands of women survivors of war.
With your ongoing support, we can continue to address women’s immediate and long-term needs, work to improve their status and opportunities and see what can be done to create a more just and peaceful world.
Zainab Salbi
Founder
Every once in a while a new voice emerges with the power to change the world. Zainab Salbi, activist and social entrepreneur, is such a voice.
UK Board of Trustees
- Deborah David — Trustee Chair
- Lady Anne Greenstock — Vice-Chair
- Celia Cattelain — Treasurer
- Jewelle Bickford
- Deborah Maxwell Chande
- Christine Fisher
- Diana Saghi Kawkabani
- Andy McQuin
- Lady Hannah Lowy Mitchell
- Elizabeth Padmore
- Zainab Salbi
- Mercedes Zobel
UK Management team
Kate Nustedt
UK Executive Director
Kate Nustedt joined Women for Women International as UK Executive Director in May 2009. She is an experienced global campaigner and has run high-profile campaigns on social justice, women's rights, anti-poverty and environmental issues. Kate is building the profile and support base for Women for Women International in the UK, and she leads the organisation’s global campaigning. She runs the Join Me on the Bridge campaign which takes place on International Women's Day, March 8. For the first campaign in 2010 there were 119 events in 21 countries, and this year there were 464 events in 70 countries.
Kate was a key part of the Labour Party’s campaign team that won the landslide general election in 1997, and she has since managed campaigns and communications teams at Greenpeace, ActionAid and the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. She was an Associate Partner with Brunswick Group, a leading public relations agency.
Kate is a graduate of Oxford University and Cass Business School (London).
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Director of Policy and Development
Brita has a strong record of work on women’s human rights, gender, social inequality and development. She has worked with a number of different national and international human rights and development institutions over the past 15 years.
Before joining Women for Women International she led the programmes & policy work of Womankind Worldwide, an international woman’s human rights and development organisation based in the UK. Brita is the Chair of the Gender & Development Network, leading the network to become the first point of call for the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID). She was elected as Trustee to BOND, a British network of development organisations, and contributed to its strategic development. Brita has also contributed to and worked as member of WIDE (Women in Development Europe) to develop a strategy for the network. She has been an adviser to the Women’s National Commission on their international women’s rights work and she has advised numerous other organisations and institutions, including DFID, on gender, women’s rights and development.
Brita holds a Masters from Sussex University (UK). Originally from Germany, Brita went to school in Venezuela and now lives in the UK with her husband and two daughters.
[Close]Maria Andrews
Director of Marketing and Communications
Maria's experience is based on many years managing business development and marketing communications at Young & Rubicam (London and EMEA) part of WPP and previously TBWA both global marketing communications agencies.
While running her own integrated, development and marketing communications consultancy, she completed a Masters of Arts in Strategic Marketing (distinction) to underpin her practical experience. She is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a member of the Institute of Fundraising to maintain her professional development.
After 20 years in the private sector a move to Waste Watch in 2006, an environmental charity, enabled Maria to transfer her corporate partnership and marketing communication skills to the benefits of the mission and charity.
In August 2010, Maria joined Women for Women International as their new Marketing Communications Director and feels inspired everyday in making a difference in the lives of women survivors of war and managing a communication plan to drive better awareness, support and participation.
[Close]Alix Garfath-Cox
Director of Finance and Operations
After graduating from Edinburgh University with an MA Economics, Alix travelled around India for 3 months, before working for a year in the Childcare Finance Team of a Social Care Services office in Suffolk. She moved to London in 2004 and gained a place on the KPMG graduate scheme within the Public Sector Assurance Department.
After completing the ACA, and with 4 years experience of public sector auditing, Alix left KPMG in 2008 to travel once again. On return in 2009 she worked for a short period answering financial parliamentary questions for the Ministry of Justice, before moving to a permanent position as Senior Accountant for the Independent Schools Council.
In August 2011 Alix joined the Women for Women International UK team as Finance & Operations Director, and is enthusiastic to be involved in all aspects of the Women for Women International work.
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