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Trustees
John Whitaker, Chair
John has worked with BUILD since it began. He represents BUILD with the Commonwealth and Welsh Assembly Government. He was Deputy Director of Oxfam from 1992 to 2004 and Trustee (latterly Chair) of the Fairtrade Foundation between 1994 and 2005. He is Chair of the International Broadcasting Trust; a Non-Executive Director of the Ethical Property Company and Chair of the Ethical Property Foundation; a Trustee Director of the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and a Trustee of Nacro.
Tina Alexander
Tina is the Executive Director of Lifeline Ministries in Domenica and is the British Honorary Consul in Dominica. She also provides training and consultancy for civil society organisations.
Emana Niskan-George
Emana Niskan-George is Policy Advisor and Senior Programme Officer for Gender and Development Action in Nigeria which is committed to gender equality, sustainable development and social justice in Nigeria.
Valentin Jombo Djema
The Paradox Centre, 3 Ching Way, Chingford, E4 8YE
+44+(0)20 71950059
Valentin is an International, Multi-lingual Business Manager with over 10 years experience within creation and management of businesses, exceptional leader who is able to develop and motivate others to achieve targets. Strong ability to manage projects from conception through to successful completion. Proactive individual with a logical approach to challenges, and ability to perform effectively even within a highly pressurised working environment.
Valentin is CEO of Africa Foundation Stone whose aims are to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of disadvantaged people in the communities both in the UK and abroad.
George Anang'a
Plan UK, 5-6 Underhill Street, London, NW1 7HZ
++44 (0)20 74829777,
George is the Development Education and Child Participation Adviser at Plan International UK. His expertise, passion and enthusiasm has been on enabling young people in the UK and young people in the south to develop mutually beneficial partnership so that they can explore issues that are important to them. He has also been part of the BUILD, DEA and Development Education Research Centre at IoE networks supporting the work and contributing to discussions between policy makers, opinion holders and practitioners. He studied and worked in Kenya, Canada, The Netherlands and the UK, and believes that the woven nature of our humanity offers a unique potential to build firm and lasting partnership steeped in utilising our diversity to address issues that are central to building a cohesive future.
Staff
Andrew Deuchar, Director
Andrew comes to BUILD with a long experience in international development, communications, management and project management. His early career in the Diplomatic Service has been followed by ministry in the Church of England.
After parish ministry, he was, from1994 to 2000, the Archbishop of Ccanterbury’s Secretary for Anglian Communion. He returned to parish ministry in Nottingham and has most recently been Mission Audit Officer to the Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness.
The Archbishop of Canterbury for whom he worked, Lord Carey, said, "BUILD is looking for an outstanding leader. Andrew is one f my best officers. I have great confidence in him. He is a very wise and consensual leader".
Dr Nick Maurice OBE, Founder
Nick Maurice was a VSO volunteer in Togo as a 'gap year' teacher (1961-2) and Papua New Guinea as a medical assistant (1967-8). Having qualified as a doctor, he was the Director of the Britain Nepal Medical Trust in the early seventies working in the field of tuberculosis control in East Nepal. He worked as a nutritionist for six months with the Oxfam emergency team in Cambodia in the early eighties. He subsequently became chair of Oxfam's Asia Committee and trustee of Oxfam for eight years. He became a GP in Marlborough, Wiltshire in 1977, the sixth generation of his family to practice in that town and retired 25 years later.
In 1981 he set up a link between Marlborough and the Muslim fishing community of Gunjur in The Gambia. The link is based on the exchange of people (1000 to the present time) between the two communities, a development education programme in the UK and an integrated development programme in The Gambia.
Nick retired early from general practice in 2002 to become the Director of the UK One World Linking Association (UKOWLA). One of UKOWLA's first actions under Nick's leadership was the creation of BUILD (Building Understanding through International Links for Development).
Lynne Mawby, Administrator
Lynne travelled in India and Nepal in 1985 returning to Bristol to train in the finance sector.
After working in Bristol in various financial roles in retail and software solutions, Lynne now works part-time for the Marlborough Brandt Group (MBG) which has links with Gunjur in The Gambia. As Office Manager Lynne visited Gunjur with a group of teachers in 2011. The remainder of her working week is now spent supporting BUILD as administrator.
Brian Mildenhall, Accounts Manager and Treasurer
In June 2010 Brian took early retirement after more than 35 years working for a major UK life assurance and pensions company.
After retiring he spent 10 weeks living in Kathmandu where he taught English to novice Tibetan monks and to schoolchildren at a school on the outskirts of the city, he also spent time at an orphanage which is supported by a local group here in the UK.
For the past four years he has been a trustee and treasurer of a small charity working in the area of mental well being and is the chair of governors at a local school and is an active supporter of two ‘friends of young carers’ groups and the orphanage in Kathmandu