Accountability and Governance

Shatish Dasani (Interim Chair)

Shatish brings a broad skillset from over 20 years’ experience in senior finance leadership roles. He is currently Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair at Renew Holdings plc, a £600m engineering services business. He was previously CFO at Forterra plc and TT electronics plc. He has also been a Non-Executive at Camelot, the national lottery operator, and a Public Member at Network Rail.

Sarah Davis (Vice-Chair)
Sarah is Director of Group Legal Affairs at ITV. She was previously Group Commercial Legal Director at the Guardian Media Group in the newspaper’s digital division, in-house lawyer at NDS and a solicitor at Stephens Innocent. Sarah has extensive non-executive experience with Poet in the City, Media Trust and European Newspapers Association.

Sean Carney (Interim Treasurer)
Sean is the 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.

Cosette Reczek (Chair, Audit & Risk Committee)

Cosette has held a variety of leadership roles at the executive level in the UK’s largest banks. The focus of her most recent work includes governance, delegation of authority, organisation design, and transformation. She recently founded her own consulting firm to advise and support others pursuing such efforts. Cosette has been a Trustee since 2016.

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.

Alex Connock
Alex is a specialist in the study and production of digital content. Academically, he is Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University. Commercially, he has run production companies Ten Alps (with Bob Geldof), Endemol Shine North and now Missile. Alex was elected to the Board in 2017.

Usama Al-Qassab
Usama is Vice President Marketing, Disney + in Europe, Middle East and Africa and joined the Board in September 2020. He has led marketing, communication, media, growth and ecommerce at PlayStation and Procter & Gamble. At P&G his team helped create the Pampers UNICEF ‘one pack = one vaccine’ partnership whilst at PlayStation he was awarded the European EFFIE Grand Prix for Marketing.

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.