Staff
Bond employs staff to coordinate and support the activities of the network.
Chief executive
Stephanie Draper is Bond's chief executive. Stephanie has spent over 20 years working to accelerate a just and sustainable future, with a focus on sustainable development. She brings extensive international experience of bringing sectors together to collaborate and shape a better future.
She was previously at Forum for the Future working on how to practically achieve the systems change needed to deliver the UN Global Goals. As their chief change officer and deputy CEO she shaped the sustainable nutrition, 1.5 degrees and sustainable value chains and livelihoods Labs and how organisations can deliver transformational strategies. She also created new approaches to understanding impact.
She has been instrumental in creating a number of cross sector initiatives (between business, NGOs and governments) and partnership such as the Protein Challenge, the Sustainable Shipping Initiative and the School of Systems Change, where she is faculty. Prior to Forum Stephanie founded the Corporate Responsibility team at The Work Foundation.
To contact Stephanie please email her PA, Romana Hoossein: [email protected]
Policy, advocacy and research
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.
Simon Starling, director of policy, advocacy and research
Sandra Martinsone, policy manager
Rowan Popplewell, policy manager, civic space
Paul Abernethy, government relations and public affairs manager
Abigael Baldoumas, policy and advocacy manager - aid effectiveness
Alice Whitehead, policy and public affairs adviser
Rosemary Forest, policy and advocacy adviser
Helen Rumford, policy and advocacy adviser
Waris Mahad, advocacy coordinator
Lena Cohrs, policy communities 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
Juliet Conway, media adviser
Jemma Ashman, membership and marketing manager
Rachel Phillips, Salesforce and membership adviser
Lena Bheeroo, engagement and equity manager
Sarah Armstrong, learning and training manager
Currently vacant, learning and training adviser
Ross Brittain, customer relations assistant
Oliver Simons, business development adviser (recruitment)
Iona Stirling-Herbert, sales and exhibition adviser
Franziska Schwarz, senior adviser for sector safeguarding (dual role)
Lucy McCall, learning and sector change communities coordinator
Helen Omoregbee, events 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.
Kath Qualtrough, director of people & finance
Zoe Abrahamson, senior funding adviser
Franziska Schwarz, business and operations manager (dual role)
Graham Thursby, safeguarding and HR adviser
Romana Hoossein, operations coordinator
Barbara Epie, finance manager
Thura Zaw Lin, finance coordinator
Yolaina Vargas Pritchard, sector change and funding adviser
