Staff

Bond employs staff to coordinate and support the activities of the network.

Chief executive

Romilly has been UK Director at the ONE Campaign for six years, leading successful campaigns on global health, education, and development finance, and working actively with bond and other NGO networks. Prior to joining ONE, Romilly spent six years as a Senior Research Fellow and Team Leader at ODI, leading the institution’s work on development finance, including financing the Sustainable Development Goals and the ‘Leave No-One Behind’ agenda. She has also worked as an Aid Transparency Team Leader at DFID, initiating and then running the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and embedding development effectiveness principles throughout the department’s work.

Romilly was an ODI Fellow in the Ugandan Finance Ministry, where she worked to spend the debt relief money released from the early HIPC initiative on education and health, and negotiating with donors on behalf of the Ugandan Government. This inspired her to take up subsequent policy advisor roles in the New Economics Foundation and ActionAid, advocating actively for more and better development finance for low and middle-income countries. She was one of the lead policy experts for the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign, helping to secure historic agreements on aid and debt cancellation. She also worked as a Governance Advisor, Southeast Asia, for ActionAid, supporting advocacy and campaigns across the region, especially in Cambodia.

To contact Romilly please email her PA, Rachel Key: [email protected]

Policy, advocacy and research

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Facilitates dialogue between the Bond membership and government bodies, political parties and other relevant organisations and decision-makers, and supports and coordinates joint advocacy and campaigning at national, European and international levels.

Gideon Rabinowitz, director of policy and advocacy

Sandra Martinsone, policy manager

Rowan Popplewell, policy manager – civic space (currently on maternity leave)

Paul Abernethy, government relations and public affairs manager

Rosemary Forest, policy manager – civic space (maternity cover)

Eden Kulig, government relations and public affairs adviser

Mustafa Al-Soufi, humanitarian adviser

Waris Mahad, advocacy coordinator

Lena Cohrs, policy communities coordinator

Bibusa Musukwa, policy coordinator

Communications and member services

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Produces targeted information and communications including the Bond website, and manages membership and engagement with Bond members and groups.

Bond training offers high-quality international development learning opportunities and events, and facilitates the sharing of knowledge and experience within the sector.

Mike Wright, director of membership and communications

Maryam Mohsin, head of media and communications

Jonathan Hatch, communications adviser (currently on paternity leave)

Lucy McCall, learning and sector change communities coordinator

Jessica Salter, media adviser

Jemma Ashman, membership and marketing manager

Rachel Phillips, salesforce and membership adviser

Oliver Simons, business development adviser (recruitment)

Iona Stirling-Herbert, sales and exhibitions adviser

Lena Bheeroo, anti-racism and equity manager

Franziska Schwarz, business and operations manager

Helen Omoregbee, events adviser

Simon Colmer, digital projects adviser

Rachel Key, CEO PA and operations coodinator

Finance, operations and effectiveness

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Bond’s Finance, Operations and Effectiveness team supports Bond and other organisations and their staff to run smoothly, cost effectively, and to achieve impact. It does this by promoting learning and best practice both within Bond and among international development organisations. Our work is based on the conviction that effective social development work is contingent on the strong relationships with partners and beneficiaries; adapts to new learning contexts; innovates in light of a rapidly evolving external environment; is able to provide robust evidence of its performance through rigorous measurement using appropriate techniques; and is transparent.

Kath Qualtrough, director of people & finance

Zoe Abrahamson, sector transformation manager

Franziska Schwarz, business and operations manager

Graham Thursby, safeguarding and HR adviser

Surinder Singh, interim finance manager

Thura Zaw Lin, finance coordinator

Katherine Strasser-Williams, sector transformation coordinator