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Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO (President) Sir Crispin has been a TREE AID patron since 1993, and took over from John Fletcher as President in March 2007. He is the Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University. His main interests are in the field of the environment and international affairs and in 1977 he published a seminal text ‘Climatic Change and World Affairs'. Most of his career was in the Diplomatic Service, including a spell as Permanent Secretary to the Overseas Development Agency (1984-87) at the height of the famine in Ethiopia. He has also been President of the Royal Geographical Society (1990-93); Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute of Washington DC (1990-2002); Convenor of the Government Panel on Sustainable Development (1994-2000); and Inaugural Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (2002-03). | |
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Mike Turnbull (Chair) Mike started his career in central government, working in the fields of transport, housing, urban regeneration and international environmental protection. He then spent eight years at the Housing Corporation, initially as Director of Resources, then as Director of Information Services. More recently he was Executive Director of the National Association of Head Teachers before starting his own interim management service company. He has been Chair of TREE AID since 2003 and is currently a board member of Sussex Oakleaf Housing Association. | |
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John Wenger (Vice Chair) John's career began at the Beecham Group where he progressed to become Finance Director of Beecham Pharmaceuticals Europe Division. Before retiring in 2004 he was Finance Director of Treloar Trust for six years. He is a past Chair of the Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) and is currently Treasurer of the Refugee Council and a Lay Member of the Fundraising Standards Board. | |
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Joseph Morland (Treasurer) Joseph left Cambridge University with a degree in Economics and Law and spent much of his career in financial management, including working for 16 years as Financial Manager of Wells Cathedral School and the National Osteoporosis Society before recently retiring. | |
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Paul Anticoni (Trustee since 2003) Paul has recently taken up the post of Chief Executive with World Jewish Relief, the leading humanitarian and development agency that represents the UK's Jewish community. Prior to this appointment he was with the British Red Cross in London for 12 years, moving from management of East Africa operations to Head of the International Aid Department, where he managed their international disaster response operations, long term programming and strategic relationships with institutional donors. Paul had previously worked with Concern Worldwide and Marie Stopes International in East Africa, South East Asia and the Balkans. | |
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Paulette Cohen (Trustee since 2003) Paulette has been responsible for communications and publicity teams within the not-for-profit sector for over 15 years. She was Head of Publicity for VSO and Communications Director for Save the Children in London and is currently Deputy Chief Executive of the Windsor Leadership Trust. She has also been Chair of the International Save the Children Alliance Global Communications Group. | |
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Sheila Large (Trustee since 2003) Sheila currently runs her own management and training consultancy. She has been Marketing Director of a further education college and Chief Executive of a community development trust. More recently Sheila spent seven years as the National Director of Social Enterprise with Business in the Community, before going on to become Director of Neighbourhood Enterprise with the Riverside Housing Group. Sheila is also a director of The Mersey Forest Trust and Groundwork Northwest. | |
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Richard Puddephatt (Trustee since 1999) Richard spent his whole career in sales and marketing in the consumer goods field for companies such as Cadbury Schweppes, Lyons Tetley and Allied Domecq from where he has recently retired. Within Allied, he was responsible for the international marketing of one of its major Scotch Whisky products and co-ordinated a worldwide strategy to deal with counterfeit products. | |
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John Rhodes (Trustee since 2006) John studied law at Jesus College, Cambridge before joining Macfarlanes, a City firm of solicitors, in 1968. He specialised in trust and estate planning for both UK and international families, serving as a partner from 1971 to 2006 (and Head of the Private Client Department from 2000 to 2005). He continues to practice at Macfarlanes on a part-time basis. Between school and university John went for a year to Nigeria with VSO. He has managed his own small woodland since 1977. |
