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, Vicki Kerr: [email protected]
Policy, advocacy and research
+44 (0)20 7520 0257
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
James Docherty, aid research and policy manager
Sarah Johns, transparency manager
Rowan Popplewell, policy manager, civic space
Stacey Frier, policy adviser, civic space
Kate Oliver, policy and advocacy adviser (Aid)
Kit Dorey, policy and advocacy adviser (SDGs)
Paul Abernethy, government relations and public affairs adviser
Alice Whitehead, advocacy and parliamentary coordinator
Amy Shaw, policy groups coordinator
Communications and member services
Membership: +44 (0)20 7520 2707
Training and recruitment advertising: +44 (0)20 7520 0248
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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
Michal Blaszczyk, communications manager
Jonathan Hatch, communications adviser
Maryam Mohsin, media manager
Stuart Leech, digital projects adviser
Gabriela Mamoń, digital projects adviser
Jemma Ashman, membership and marketing manager
Daniel Metcalf, membership and CRM adviser
Lena Bheeroo, events and programmes manager
Rosie Jones, events assistant
Sarah Armstrong, learning and training manager
Debbie Nolan, 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
Andrew May, sector safeguarding adviser
Kiana Alavi, communities adviser
Finance, operations and effectiveness
Finance: +44 (0)20 7520 0247
NGO Effectiveness: +44 (0)20 7520 1042
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.
Graham Mackay, chief operating officer
Catherine Dow-Wright, business and operations manager
Vicki Kerr, operations coordinator
Catherine Quinn, administrative assistant
Barbara Epie, finance manager
Thura Zaw Lin, finance coordinator
Zoe Abrahamson, senior funding adviser
Gerard Witham, head of organisational effectiveness
Yolaina Vargas Pritchard, programme coordinator
