Staff
Bond employs staff to coordinate and support the activities of the network.
Chief executive
Romilly Greenhill is our CEO, beginning the post in November 2023.
Romilly was previously 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.
Policy and advocacy
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
Paul Abernethy, government relations and public affairs manager
Alex Farley, policy and advocacy manager – development finance
Mustafa Al-Soufi, humanitarian adviser
Lena Cohrs, policy and advocacy adviser
Bibusa Musukwa, policy and advocacy adviser – civic space
Lena Bheeroo, head of anti-racism, equity, diversity and inclusion
Sector transformation
If you’d like to get in touch with our sector transformation team, email [email protected].
Zoe Abrahamson, head of sector transformation
Tushar Talukdar, locally led adviser
Katherine Strasser-Williams, sector transformation 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.
Mike Wright, director of membership and communications
Maryam Mohsin, head of media and communications
Jemma Ashman, membership and marketing manager
Jonathan Hatch, communications manager
Jessica Salter, media adviser
Rachel Armenise, salesforce adviser (maternity leave)
Rebecca Sher, salesforce adviser (maternity cover)
Megan Barstow, business development adviser (account manager)
Rachel Key, member engagement adviser
Oliver Simons, corporate partnerships adviser
Iona Stirling-Herbert, partnerships adviser
Abby Goldie, events adviser
Lucy McCall, communities adviser
Miret Årvik, events and digital coordinator
Finance, operations and effectiveness
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.
David Wade, director of finance and planning
Surinder Singh, finance manager
Graham Thursby, HR and operations manager
Thura Zaw Lin, finance coordinator
Mina Spurr, operations coordinator