Board of Trustees
Chair
Stephen O’Brien, MP
Stephen O’Brien has been Conservative MP for Eddisbury since July 1999, and is a Shadow Minister for Health. He is a qualified solicitor, and has established an international business consultancy specialising in corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions. He is Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Malaria Group, as well as the All Party Group on Tanzania, and Vice-Chair of the Aid, Trade and Debt Group. Stephen became Chairman of the Malaria Consortium in December 2006.
Vice Chair
Roger Cousins, OBE, FCMI
Roger Cousins is a career civil servant with a wide range of experience in human resource management and development and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Company Secretary
Patricia Scutt
Pat Scutt spent 40 years working with the official British development programme in Finance, Accounts, Overseas Personnel, United Nations and International Financial Institutions. She helped to set up the Joint Funding Scheme with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs and managed a number of country programmes. Pat was Acting Head of Education Division before moving to the Joint Assistance Unit in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) dealing with the new republics of the former Soviet Union.
Treasurer
Derek Reynolds, FCMA
Derek Reynolds is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. For ten years until 1993 he was Director of Finance and a Board Member of two London teaching hospitals. Since then he has been working as an international consultant in health care systems. During the early part of his career he spent seven years living in Africa and the Indian Ocean and he has worked in more than fifteen countries. He is particularly interested in the implementation of health policy
Trustees
Tim Armstrong, FCA
Tim Armstrong has worked as a Chartered Accountant in the audit profession in Africa and the Middle East and with a leading international consultancy firm specialising in financing and managing major projects in the developing world. Tim has held a number of senior positions in UK financial regulation.
Richard Barnett
Richard Barnett is a Solicitor, and senior partner of Barnett Sampson, London. His main areas of practice include corporate and commercial transactions but he also practices in employment law, wills and tax planning.
Professor Fred Binka
Fred Binka is a Clinical Epidemiologist. His special interests include malaria epidemiology and interventions. Fred is currently Executive Director of Indepth-Network and lecturer in Epidemiology, at the School of Public Health in the University of Ghana, and he has worked for over 2 decades with Ministry of Health Ghana, with a brief period at the Roll Back Malaria team in WHO, Geneva.
Professor Gilbert Bukenya
Gilbert Bukenya, Vice President of Uganda, a former researcher on malaria and dean of Makerere Medical School, Kampala, Uganda is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene and the Royal Society of Health. He will chair the advisory committee of the Malaria Consortium regional office in Uganda.
Professor John Horton
John Horton worked for 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry, and is a recognised global expert on anthelminthics, antimalarials, and on drug development for tropical diseases. He served on the WHO Research and Development (R & D) Committee, on the IFPMA/WHO R & D Working Groups for Neglected Diseases and Tropical Diseases, and has been involved in the Medicines for Malaria Venture and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. He co-developed, with the WHO, the concept of the Global Programme for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis, and was the scientific advisor in its early years. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and an Honorary Professor at Liverpool University in the United Kingdom, and at Murdoch University in Australia.
Dr Penelope Key, OBE
A medical doctor with tropical public health and international health systems development expertise, she has worked in many overseas locations, notably Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, India and West & South Africa. She has worked for UN, government and voluntary sector, including WHO, ODA (now DFID), church missions and UK-based secular NGOs; lately her work has concentrated on reconstruction and rehabilitation of health systems and services in the very poorest countries, post-conflict situations and the needs of most vulnerable people.
Clive Nettleton
Clive Nettleton has been Director of Health Unlimited since 1990. Previously Head of Information, Research and Evaluation at the Refugee Council, and Associate General Secretary for Africa of World University Service in Geneva. Originally from South Africa, he was Assistant Director of the Institute of Race Relations, and Director of variety of educational programmes. He has served on the Executive Committees of the Refugee Council and BOND, initiated the Directors of Medium Sized NGOs (DOMINGO) Group, and is a primary school governor.
Dr Edward Brian Doberstyn
Brian Doberstyn is a medical doctor with over 35 years of experience in the field of paediatric infectious disease and immunology. His professional experience lies in research and tackling the Malaria problem primarily in the South-east Asia Region in his work with WHO as Representative and Chief of Mission in Thailand and more recently, as Director of Combating Communicable Diseases in WHO Regional Office for Western Pacific. Previous experience includes working as Chief in the Department of Tropical Medicine at the US Naval Medical Research Unit in Ethiopia, Chief of Malaria Research and Technical Intelligence and Chief of Malaria Unit in WHO, Geneva.
Dr Garth Glentworth, OBE
Garth Glentworth has just retired after 28 years with what is now the UK Department of International Development, latterly as a Senior Governance Adviser for Africa."Governance" is a composite of all aspects of public sector performance plus politics, law, policing, media-an ever widening agenda. He has also worked in South and South -East Asia and in Eastern and Central Europe . He has played a major part in developing capacity building responses to governance problems and in training governance advisers in DFID. One of the major concentrations is on service delivery especially in post conflict, fragile states such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
Dr Whitney Addington
Whitney W. Addington is Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020 and a Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been a Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, Rush Medical College and the University of Chicago and has published extensively on clinical chest disease, public health, and has a special interest in tuberculosis and malaria. Dr. Addington has received a number of honors, most recently, the Alfred Stengel Medal of the American College of Physicians for lifetime service to the College and the medical profession. He has led People-to-People Ambassador Programs to China in 2000 and to Cuba in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Addington was selected President of the American Friends of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Dr Geoffrey Butcher
After two years as a science teacher in Nigeria, Geoff worked full time on research into malaria, initially at Guy’s Hospital then at various other institutions in the UK and Australia, until retirement. He is an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Imperial College London, and whenever possible visits schools and adult groups to talk about malaria.