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Our Leadership Team

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UNICEF UK employs over 300 people. Most are based in Stratford, London, and others work remotely across the UK.

We are governed by a Board of Trustees and led by a Chief Executive, Dr Philip Goodwin, supported by an Executive Team.

Dr Philip Goodwin, Chief Executive Officer

Dr Philip Goodwin has been the Chief Executive of VSO since 2015. He was previously CEO of TREE AID, a development organisation working on agro-forestry in dryland Africa. He spent 11 years with The British Council and held leadership positions in Kenya, Uganda, Pakistan and Belgium including regional director for sub-Saharan Africa. Philip has been a community development volunteer in Timbuktu, Mali and a researcher on poverty issues at the Overseas Development Institute. He has a PhD and MSc in rural resource planning and environmental policy and a degree in agricultural economics.

Philip is a non-executive director of the International Civil Society Centre based in Berlin whose mission is to strengthen the impact and resilience of international civil society organisations. He is also a trustee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, the not-for-profit search and rescue organisation whose mission is to save lives at sea. He is co-author with Tony Page of the leadership book “From Hippos to Gazelles: How Leaders Create Leaders.”

Anna Kettley, Chief Influence and Impact Officer

Anna Kettley is our Chief Influence and Impact Officer, responsible for advocacy, programmes, and safeguarding. Anna has been working in the charitable sector for over two decades, specialising in the delivery of large-scale transformational programmes and innovative influencing strategies that champion children’s rights, tackle inequity, and drive social change on both a domestic and international level. Anna has a specialist Master’s in Charity Management from the Bayes Business School and a Postgraduate Diploma in Climate Change and International Development. She is currently a Trustee for the Polar Citizen Science Collective, working in a voluntary capacity. Prior to joining UNICEF UK, Anna held senior roles at Save the Children and Place2Be.

Louise Lane, Chief Marketing Officer

Louise Lane is our Chief Marketing Officer and oversees marketing, communications, and Soccer Aid for UNICEF while also the Executive lead for the organisation’s emergency humanitarian response. Louise has worked in the sector for nearly 20 years and her roles at UNICEF UK have included Director of Soccer Aid, Director of Strategy, and Head of Performance Marketing. She has also served as a global marketing consultant and a member of the humanitarian emergency surge team. A Board Director of Soccer Aid Productions Ltd, Louise is also a mother to two young children.

Mohini Raichura-Brown, Chief Partnerships Officer

Mohini Raichura-Brown is our Chief Partnerships Officer responsible for raising high value income for UNICEF UK, from across teams including partnerships and philanthropy. With nearly 15 years of charitable sector experience, she has specialised in forming mutually beneficial, long-term and strategic partnerships with the private sector and high net worth individuals. Mohini is an active member of the third sector community, with a keen focus on equality, diversity and inclusion as well as social justice. Mohini is also UNICEF UK’s Executive sponsor of our anti-racism programme of work.

Steven Waugh, Chief Financial Officer

Steven is a chartered accountant who has spent most of his career in the media, advertising and communications sector. He joined UNICEF UK from Accenture where he sold and integrated the independent innovation consultancy Happen. Prior to this he spent thirteen years within the global communications Group Omnicom Group Inc, starting in London as CFO of a group of digital media and integrated communications businesses. In 2011, he moved to South Africa and continued to work with Omnicom businesses taking on the TBWA South Africa CFO role. The role involved making acquisitions into the group – two in South Africa and two in Nigeria, establishing a best in class shared services function and a full finance system upgrade.

During his time in South Africa, he developed the future strategy for a non-profit organisation that provided low cost loans and business support to entrepreneurs that have been refused credit from established lenders, and set up two reading centres in schools.

Ben Ramalingam, Chief Strategic Development Officer

Ben Ramalingam is our Chief Strategic Development Officer, overseeing strategy, people, innovation, and change management to deliver the best possible results for children and young people around the world. With over two decades of experience in the global development and humanitarian sectors, Ben specialises in formulating and delivering creative and rigorous solutions to complex problems. His work bridges strategy, policy, operational delivery, organisational transformation, research and learning.

Ben has held strategic and executive leadership roles at the British Red Cross, the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub, the OECD Development Assistance Committee and the Overseas Development Institute. He currently sits on the international strategic advisory board of UK Research and Innovation, guiding scientific collaborations and investments to address global challenges.

Our Trustees

UNICEF UK is governed by a Board of Trustees. The Board is responsible for overseeing that UNICEF UK is achieving its mission and strategic objectives and that it complies with legal requirements and charity regulations. The Board also appoints the Executive Director. Trustee roles are voluntary positions filled by open recruitment processes.

UNICEF UK’s Board is guided by the voluntary Charity Governance Code for larger charities, which is a tool to help charities and their trustees develop high standards of governance.

Shatish Dasani (Chair) Shatish brings a broad skillset from over 25 years’ experience in business leadership roles, including on public company Boards. He is currently Senior Independent Director at Renew Holdings plc, and Non-Executive Director at Genuit Group plc, SIG plc and Speedy Hire plc. He was previously CFO at Forterra plc and TT Electronics plc. Shatish has significant international experience, having travelled extensively and lived on different continents. He graduated from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an MBA. He joined the Board in 2020.

Sarah Davis (Vice-Chair) Sarah joined the board of UNICEF UK in 2017 and was appointed Vice Chair in 2019. Sarah is an experienced media industry General Counsel and Non-Executive Director. Most recently as global Group Legal Affairs Director at ITV Plc and before that many years at global news organisation The Guardian Media Group. Alongside her legal career Sarah also has over 20 years’ non-executive board experience with organisations including Poet in the City, The Media Trust, UEL, Society of Authors and currently The Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Sean Carney (Treasurer) Sean is the COO of Kensington Palace and former COO/CFO of Telemos Capital, a family-funded private equity firm. Previously, he was COO of The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, after a career in corporate finance/investment banking with Merrill Lynch, HSBC and Merrill Lynch. He holds a US Law degree from the University of Chicago and an honours BA in economics from Harvard College. Sean was co-opted in 2019.

Usama Al-Qassab (Trustee) Usama leads the Marketing, Communications, Digital, Broadcast, Retail, Hospitality and Partnerships for The Championships Wimbledon and the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Previously he has held leadership positions at Sony PlayStation, Disney and Procter & Gamble across Europe, Middle East, Africa, India and Australasia. Whilst at P&G his team designed and delivered the Pampers ‘one pack = one vaccine’ partnership alongside UNICEF to eradicate newborn and neonatal tetanus. Usama joined the board in September 2020 and in his spare time can be found coaching youth age grade rugby to boys and girls in South London.

Richard Hawkes Richard is Chief Executive of the British Asian Trust, which was founded by HRH The Prince of Wales to drive positive change across South Asia. He has held a range of senior roles in the UK and international not-for-profit sector for more than 25 years, including working for the United Nations and being Chair of BOND (the umbrella body for UK international NGOs) for five years. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the World Humanitarian Forum and of the UK’s Charity Bank.

Alex Connock (Vice-Chair) Alex is an academic in Media and Artificial Intelligence. He is Senior Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University and St Hugh’s College Oxford. He is also Professor at the University of Exeter, and the University of Sunderland. Commercially, he has founded and run a number of TV and advertising production companies. He wrote the 2022 book ‘Media Management and Artificial Intelligence’ and the 2024 book ‘Media Management and Live Experience’, both published by Routledge.

Maggie Atkinson Maggie is a consultant and experienced Board member. Her work focuses on safeguarding children and adults, tackling injustices and inequalities. An Honorary Professor at Keele, she enjoys the rigorous debates that work entails. From 2010-15 Maggie was England’s Children’s Commissioner, strengthening the role’s impact and championing children’s rights. Her career started in education and local government, including as a DCS and President of ADCS.

Matt Ferguson Matt is Director of Development & Alumni Engagement at Warwick University where he is leading an ambitious agenda to inspire a culture of philanthropy in support of world-leading research and student support. Previously, Matt spent 10 years at King's College London, latterly as Chief Development Officer. He has significant expertise in transformational philanthropy, particularly in Asia, and was part of the leadership team behind the College’s World questions|King's answers campaign that raised £610 million.

Zamila Skingsley Zamila recently held the role of International Director at the UK Department for Education on an extended secondment, leading on bilateral and multilateral international education partnerships, mobility programs, trade, higher education and data. She is formerly Deputy Head of Unit at the Cabinet Office, Race Disparity Unit where she was the founding architect of the world-leading Ethnicity Facts and Figures website, tackling ethnic disparities and has worked with the United Nations in conflict countries in Dafur, Sudan and Kathmandu, Nepal. Zamila also holds Director/NED roles at the Heywood Foundation, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership King’s College and Concern Worldwide and is a Fellow at the London School of Economics.

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