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THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES
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Richard Martin – Founder and Chairman
The Founder and Chairman of Children of Peace, it is Richard’s vision that is helping to change so many people’s lives for the better. His inspired leadership has brought together many individuals and organisations who share his fresh approach to conflict resolution in the Middle East. Richard is Managing Director of a leading international advertising, marketing and public relations consultancy. Prior to that he acted as a consultant to the BBC, was Coordinator of Film and Television Studies at university level, was a Justice of the Peace in East Sussex and is a senior adviser to an antiracist NGO. Richard is married, with two children.
Claire Packham – Treasurer
Claire Packham is a Senior Partner in a Sussex based company, specialising in providing bookkeeping, accountancy and training services to a wide range of businesses across Sussex. Before setting up her own business twelve years ago, Claire had managed the accounts departments for a number of leading companies. She lives in East Sussex with her son.
Professor Sarah Annes Brown
Sarah Brown is a member of the Department of English, Communication, Film & Media at Anglia Ruskin University. Her principal teaching areas are Shakespeare, myth, and the Victorian novel. She previously taught at the Universities of Bristol, Central England, St Andrews, De Montfort and Cambridge. Her publications include the Everyman edition of Nicholas Rowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (co-edited with Charles Martindale) (1997) The Metamorphosis of Ovid: Chaucer to Ted Hughes (1999), Devoted Sisters: Representations of the Sister Relationship in Nineteenth Century British and American literature (2003), Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis (2005) and a volume on Henry James for Pickering and Chatto's Lives of Victorian Literary Figures series (2006). Her current projects include chapters on classical reception and science fiction (for a Blackwell Companion to the Classical Tradition) and an article on queer theory and the Pygmalion myth. She is also co-editing a collection of essays for Blackwell, Tragedy in Transition, with Dr Catherine Silverstone. Sarah has recently been appointed editor of a new series for Duckworth, Classical Diaspora.
Paul Burger
Paul Burger's career spans more than 30 years working with music artists of very diverse backgrounds in a variety of locations. Having previously worked for 27 years in senior management positions within Sony Music Europe, he founded his own company, SohoArtists in 2004, an artist management company focused largely on new and developing talent. His clients include some of the most important World Music artists including Yasmin Levy (Adama Music), a winner of the Anna Lindh Foundation Award for Cross-Cultural collaboration; and Ilham al-Madfai (EMI Arabia) who is currently working with BBC Radio 3's World routes Academy. SohoArtists also manages aspiring pop talents Ms Lynch, soon to release their debut album (CEOL Music); and New York-based singer-songwriter Karen Bishko who is currently working on her first stage musical and screenplay. SohoArtists also includes a consultancy arm for artists and labels; as well as a live promotion company TRP 2009 which is funded through the Edge Group. At Sony Music, Paul served as President, Europe, Middle East, Africa (2000-2003) prior to which he was President Sony Music UK & Ireland (1993-2000). He also served as President, Sony Music Canada (1989-1993) and as Vice-President, Marketing, Europe (1986-1989). Prior to that he held a number of positions at CBS Records International (Paris) and CBS Records Israel. Paul is also a Board Member of the Music Managers Forum (UK); Director of The Brit Trust Ltd; Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Foundation (UK) Ltd; Chairman Belsize Square Synagogue.
Shelagh Callaghan
Shelagh Callaghan is committed to equality, tolerance and celebrating diversity. She lives in Herefordshire and is self employed, delivering project management and implementation across the three sectors. In recent years she has worked for Herefordshire Council, West Mercia Constabulary, Carers' Action, the Diocese of Hereford and the Kairos Partnership, a faith-led organisation. For the past five years she has worked exclusively on projects which seek to establish social inclusion for the most vulnerable members of society. Some of these have been around homelessness, migrant workers, drug and alcohol addictions and supporting young people. Shelagh is also the Secretary to the Trustees for Herefordshire's Night Shelter and sits on several advisory groups in the County, working on a number of issues, including rough sleeping, migrant workers, homelessness and race & diversity. Shelagh is married and has two children.
Dominic Martin
Having read Politics at Bristol University, Dominic Martin wrote his dissertation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has worked as a journalist for nearly ten years and currently works for the BBC World Service, based in London. He has been a volunteer for Children of Peace since its foundation and has organised a number of fund-raising events including the comedy night Stand-up for Peace and the annual London 10k team of 12 runners as the Sports Coordinator. Dominic is currently the elected Chair of the Children of Peace Events Committee. He lives in London.
Trevor Mepham
Trevor Mepham lives in Herefordshire with his wife. They have 4 children. After studying International Relations and European studies at Keele, Bruges and Aberystwyth, he trained to become a Steiner teacher. He worked as a class teacher at the South Devon Steiner School, Dartington, before joining the advisory team of the UK Steiner Schools movement - the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF). He spent 12 years at the University of Plymouth, working in the Faculty of Education as Co-Director of the Steiner BA Programme. He served on the Executive Group of SWSF for 6 years, before taking up a new post, in September 2008, as Principal of the Steiner Academy Hereford - the first publicly-funded Steiner school in the UK. In 2009 he joined the Board of the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education (ECSWE). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Richard Montagu
Richard joined the British Army in 1981 and served as an officer in UK, Germany, Hong Kong, Brunei and Kenya. He experienced the challenges of conflict resolution when he twice served in Northern Ireland. In 1991 he left the Army and entered industry where he worked for Perkins, the multinational diesel engine manufacturer, at a time when the business was going through a fundamental change in its style of management. He took a leading role in this process, an experience which led him to introduce the same process in a sister company in the US. Richard settled into a sales role and later became responsible as General Sales Manager for sales of a significant segment of the market travelling across the world. In 2000 he joined Alstom, the train manufacturer, where he joined the UK sales team handling customers, including Virgin, First Group and Stagecoach amongst others. He later became UK Sales Director. In 2009 he left Alstom to become a consultant in change management working across varied sectors. In addition he is setting up an art and travel company.
Martin Taylor
Martin is a Chartered Accountant (FCA), recently retired, and Business Graduate (MBA Cranfield). He have spent most of my working life either managing or advising small to medium sized businesses, including a 5 year spell in Athens working for a very wealthy, orthodox Christian, émigré Palestinian family which required him to travel frequently to the Middle East on their extensive trading business, and which has enabled him to see some of the humanitarian issues at first hand. His final 17 years has been spent as FD/CEO to a medium sized law firm in Central London, managing it through a period of substantial growth, when we were doubling in size every five years.
THE TRUSTEES
Richard Martin –
Founder and Chairman
Claire Packham – Treasurer
Professor Sarah Annes Brown
Paul Burger
Shelagh Callaghan
Dominic Martin
Trevor Mepham
Richard Montagu
Martin Taylor
TRUSTEES