Below are short profiles for the trustees of Panos London. Please use the contact form at the bottom of this page to get in touch with our trustees if you have any questions relating to the running of Panos London.
Birgitte Jallov | Chair
Birgitte Jallov (Denmark) is a senior international development professional in the area of media development, communication for development, press freedom and gender. Since the early 1980s she has worked to develop, test and implement tools for empowerment and social change with a focus on the use of community radio for empowerment. She has worked with organisations and programmes in over 60 countries.
www.birgitte-jallov.com
Jill Storey | Treasurer and Chair of Executive Committee
Jill Storey (UK) is a tax partner at KPMG with over 20 years of experience working for accounting firms in both the UK and Hong Kong. She works with colleagues from many locations on the accounts she runs globally and has previously been responsible for the People Services Tax business across KPMG Europe sitting on the UK Tax Board.
Nupur Basu
Nupur Basu is an independent journalist, award-winning documentary film maker and media educator from India. For the last three decades Nupur has worked in both print and television journalism, reporting and filming extensively from different regions of the world including: India, Uganda, South Africa, Pakistan and Nepal. From 1994 to 2006 she was the Senior Editor at New Delhi Television (NDTV).
Tracey Cabache
Tracey Cabache (UK) is a community development practitioner with a UK local authority. Before working with Torbay Council she worked for over a decade with Panos London where she led the organisation’s strategic decentralisation of authority, which led to the establishment of independent Panos Institutes in South Asia, Eastern Africa and Southern Africa.
Annelie Ewers
Annelie Ewers is the director of the Fojo Media Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She has written extensively for different Swedish media and has been responsible for Fojo media development projects in Sri Lanka, Belarius, Russia, Vietnam, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
Margaret Gallagher
Margaret Gallagher
Margaret Gallagher (Ireland) is a senior international development and communication professional with a strong background in gender analysis, media research, monitoring and evaluation. She started her career at the BBC, before moving to the Open University as Deputy Head of the Audiovisual Media Research Group. For the past thirty years she has been a freelance consultant, working on projects for the United Nations and its agencies, the European Commission, international development agencies and broadcasting organisations.
Lawrence Haddad
Lawrence Haddad
Professor Haddad (UK) has been Director of Development Studies at the University of Sussex since 2004. He has conducted and led policy research at the intersection of poverty, food security and nutrition in many countries in Africa and Asia.
www.developmenthorizons.com
Mary Myers
Mary Myers
Dr Mary Myers (UK) is a consultant in development communications specialising in radio in Africa. Since becoming a freelancer in 1996 she has worked extensively for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and other bodies such as the World Bank, Carleton University, Internews and the U.S. Center for International Media Assistance, while travelling and working in more than 25 countries in Africa. She has contributed to various academic conferences and written many research studies, policy-papers and reports on radio, media and development.
Aida Opoku-Mensah
Aida Opoku-Mensah, of Ghana, has worked on information ICT for development initiatives throughout Africa and is currently the Director of ICTs and Science & Technology Division at the Economic Commission for Africa. She has worked for the Ford Foundation’s West Africa office in Lagos, Nigeria and served as Regional Director of Panos Southern Africa, based in Lusaka, Zambia.
Elizabeth Pisani
Elizabeth Pisani
Dr Elizabeth Pisani is an epidemiologist who has spent over a decade working on the defining epidemic of our age: HIV. She has done research, and worked as an advisor, for the Ministries of Health of China, Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines, as well as providing analysis and policy advice for organisations including UNAIDS, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank.
www.ternyata.org
Helge Rønning
Helge Rønning was born in Oslo, Norway where he involves himself in a number of projects focussing particularly in the area of media and development, and media and democratic change. He has previously worked as a freelance broadcast and print journalist for both Norwegian and international news organisations.
Vijay Solanki
Vijay Solanki (UK) is the Director of Reward, EMEA at State Street Bank & Trust Company; a large US investment bank. He originally graduated in Accounting, Finance and Law, before joining PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Before joining State Street he worked in senior roles at Bear Stearns and BNP Paribas.
Andrew Whitehead
Andrew Whitehead
Andrew Whitehead (UK) is the Editor of BBC World Service News and has, at various times in his journalism career, been a correspondent in Delhi, a lobby correspondent based at Westminster, a radio presenter and an award-winning documentary maker. He spent two-and-a-half years as India country director of the BBC World Service Trust, the BBC’s international development communications charity, heading a project using mass audience TV drama and reality programming to promote HIV awareness and prevention. Andrew is also a historian, an editor of ‘History Workshop Journal’, and the author of A Mission in Kashmir, a history of the origins of the Kashmir crisis based in part on interviews with those who lived through the early stages of the conflict. He is married with two children and lives in north London.
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