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Registered charity number: 1098752 / Company number: 4652230
| Director | Nikki Jeffery | |
| Programme Officer | Siobhan Mahoney | |
| Administrator | Janaki Jayasuriya | |
| Programme Assistant | Clare Shaw | |
| Fundraiser | Sarah Handley |
Dick Bird, OBE, is the Chairman and has spent 38 years as a top level VSO executive, although now retired. He is now an Honorary Vice-President of VSO and member of its Council.
Sir Christopher France KGCB, the vice-Chairman, finished his career as Permanent Secretary at, latterly, the Ministry of Defence and before that the Department of Health. He has been a Trustee of the Ryder-Cheshire Foundation since 1997.
Patsy Wright-Warren CBE, spent her career working as a community nurse and as a nursing adviser in the Department of Health and Social Security. After retiring, she became Projects Officer, visiting the overseas projects in India, Nepal and Tanzania each year and the Foundations in Australia and New Zealand occasionally. In 2000, she became Chairman of the Ryder-Cheshire Foundation and later of Target Tuberculosis.
Andrew Russell FCA, Hon Treasurer, retired as a partner of Mazars Neville Russell, Chartered Accountants. He has always taken a special interest in charities and Andrew is currently trustee of various other charities including the Charleston Trust and St. Mary's Hall School.
Martin Long is Head of Programmes for Send a Cow with responsibility for programme development in partnership with local partners in countries of the developing world. He previously worked for Action on Disability and Development, Healthlink Worldwide (formerly AHRTAG) and VSO in The Caribbean, Sierra Leone, Pakistan and Zambia.
Dr Maya Unnithan is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and convenor of the MA programme in Medical Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her doctoral work focused on kinship, gender and family relations in a poor 'tribal' community in North-West India. Since 1997 her research interest has been in the field of medical anthropology, especially in the anthropology of reproduction and health. She is a trustee of an NGO working in health in Jaipur.
Dr Melanie Newport is a Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases and International Health at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She has spent 3 years working in TB focused clinics in West Africa and is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
Christa Paxton is a freelance consultant, specialising in management advice for voluntary organisations. During Christa's career, which has seen two extensive periods of volunteering overseas, most recently as Management Advisor to the largest mental health charity in Cambodia, she has been Chief Executive of the British Lung Foundation, Head of Fundraising for VSO and founding director of a marine contracting company.