Chair of the Board

Previously Deputy Chair, Laura became Chair of the Board in April 2020.

Laura is an experienced independent sustainability adviser and advocate.

She founded her sustainability consultancy 'Remarkable Impact' in 2020. She is also a B Leader and runs a B Corp Academy programme, helping businesses complete the B Corp certification process with ease and confidence.

Over the past 20 years, Laura held a number of in-house sustainability leadership positions in companies including Jaguar Land Rover and The Co-op Group, so understands the challenges (and rewards) of bringing good intentions to life in practice within organisations.

She completed a post-grad certificate at the Cambridge University Institute of Sustainability Leadership and has been recognised as an agent of change by a UK award scheme. She is also a judge for the annual UK Global Good Awards.

Trustee

Jonathan Kazembe is a Refugee support specialist and advocate. He has 10 years’ experience working in Refugee community engagement programmes with Freedom from Torture, NHS England, and the City of Sanctuary Manchester. Since 2017 Jonathan has worked as the Expert by Experience Manager championing shifting the power to people with lived experience within Refugee Action. He has supported the empowerment of people with lived experience through Refugee Action’s front-line services team in Bradford, Manchester, and Birmingham and through the Expert by Experience Steering group which influences Refugee Action’s overall plans. He is interested in how we can strengthen meaningful participation by people who have lived experience of being a refugee.

Trustee

Shivani is passionately curious. She started as a classicist at the University of Oxford, where she spent her time behind the scenes in the theatre & in student welfare. She then taught in a school in the slums of Dharavi as a Teach For India fellow. Wanting to push past curricular constraints, she joined the family foundation; Dharohar. Here, she tries to inspire her team, volunteers & students to love learning & see wonder all around them. She believes deeply in the power communities have to tackle their own challenges if given the chance and the confidence.

Trustee

Nimisha has over 15 years of Compliance experience coupled with a legal background, and has worked for UBS, JP Morgan and now HSBC. She also volunteers at non-profit organisations, either carrying out fundraising or leading initiatives. She believes in meaningful change and is passionate about education, social enterprise, coaching/mentoring and bringing the best out of people and teams.

Trustee and Chair of the Finance Committee

Emma is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant with more than 20 years’ experience in Finance across the not-for-profit and private sectors. Emma has spent a lot of time working in International Development, both in Finance and more recently as a trustee of GNDR, the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction. She has had the privilege to work for a number of international organisations active in many countries, both within the humanitarian/emergency response sector and also in longer term sustainable development programmes. She is currently the Finance Director of Blackwell’s a 140 year old family owned bookselling business with customers in more than 80 countries, which is in the process of transitioning to an employee owned business. As well as being a trustee, Emma is Chair of the Finance Committee at Caplor Horizons.

Trustee

Elouise is currently a PhD student. Her previous research has included contributing to a study on of the impacts of eco-anxiety on children and young people. Elouise is an active member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC). The UKYCC’s mission is to mobilise and empower young people to take positive action for global climate justice.

Board Advisor

Peter works with NGO boards and senior teams on governance and strategy, primarily in international development. He is based in London and has worked in 24 countries. Peter’s direct Board experience has been mainly with ActionAid. He achieved a PhD at Oxford University and worked in various senior roles in BP for many years, including as Head of Recruitment, before focusing on the not-for-profit sector. Peter has been involved with Caplor Horizons since it was established.

Trustee

Sharan has close to 30 years’ experience working with vulnerable and marginalised people and communities in Ireland, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Sharan also has experience as statutory director and chair of local, national, European, and international alliances and networks within the not-for-profit sector in Ireland, UK and beyond. Sharan is currently CEO of the Irish Association for Social Inclusion Opportunities, a national organisation operating across the Republic of Ireland.

Trustee

Clement is a member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, under the Africa Province in Zambia. He is currently the Africa Province Mission coordinator. He is an Instructor in woodwork and social worker by profession. He has passion in Development Projects and capacity training of project personnel under the Edmund Rice Mission across Africa in various areas like finance training, development of strategic plans, and Project Cycle Management.

Clement comes with leadership skills and he has been a member of both international and local Boards of Governors/Directors namely Edmund Rice Development Board in Ireland, The Justice Desk Africa in South Africa and a trustee member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers in Zambia and South Africa.

Clement has interest in giving talks to young religious men and women in formation in the areas of conflict management and resolution, addiction, and retreats.

He believes in working collaboratively with other likeminded organizations and learning by doing.