Our Advisory Council members are appointed by the Board for five-year terms.
They provide advice to the Board and Chief Executive drawing upon the diversity of their backgrounds from business, public service, unions, the voluntary sector, academia and the community.
-
David Nussbaum
PresidentDavid was previously Chief Executive of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders – mainly former Presidents and UN Secretary Generals – founded by Nelson Mandela working together for peace, justice and human rights, until October 2021. David is now Chair of International Alert, the Joffe Charitable Trust and Christians Against Poverty; he is also the Senior Independent Director of Drax Group plc; a Board (‘Council’) member of Chatham House, and of the International Budget Partnership; and a member of the Ethical Investment Advisory Group of the Church of England.
-
The Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC
Advisory Board MemberDavid Anderson (Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC) is a cross-bench peer (since 2018) and a barrister practising from London in the fields of public, EU-related and human rights law. He is a member of the Courts of Appeal of Guernsey and Jersey, a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, and chair of the European Institute at University College London. He also co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Rule of Law and chairs the board of trustees of Inter Mediate, a charity founded by Jonathan Powell which facilitates peace negotiations in some of the world’s most complex and dangerous conflicts.
-
Edward Bickham
Advisory Board MemberEdward Bickham is the Principal Senior Advisor at Critical Resource and Senior Adviser to the World Gold Council. He is recognised as a leading advisor on sustainability, stakeholder relations and governance issues in the mining and energy sectors.
Edward was formerly Executive Vice President, External Affairs for global mining group, Anglo American plc, between 2000 and Autumn 2009. He was Senior Adviser to the World Gold Council including on the development of the Conflict-Free Gold Standard and on resource nationalism (2010 -13) and, more recently, on the development of the Responsible Gold Mining Principles (2017 - ).
He was a trustee (2010 -19) and Chair (2015-19), of the Institute of Business Ethics, and has been a Trustee of CARE International UK and Chair of its Programme Committee. He is a Board Member of the International Cyanide Management Institute. He is a Visiting Fellow of Cranfield School of Management since 2010.
-
Laurence Cockcroft
Advisory Board MemberLaurence Cockcroft is a development economist whose interest and commitment to development in Africa has lasted since his first experience in Nigeria as a volunteer (VSO) in 1962.He subsequently worked in Africa for the governments of Zambia and Tanzania and later for the corporate sector (Booker Agriculture) for various international development agencies (FA), World Bank, UNIDO) and for a major UK charitable foundation. He has written and spoken widely on issues in African development and wrote a book on Africa‘s political economy, (Africa’s Way: a Journey from the Past) published in 1990.
Laurence is a founding member of Transparency International and was formerly chairman of its UK chapter, and is now a senior adviser to Transparency International UK and a member of Transparency International Secretariat. He is the author of 'Global Corruption: Money, Power, and Ethics in the Modern World'.
-
Jane Ellison
Advisory Board MemberJane Ellison’s media career spans broadcast journalism, commissioning programmes and delivering multi-platform cultural projects of scale. Most recently she led the transformation of the BBC’s approach to partnerships.
She has worked in daily news and produced current affairs programmes in the UK and around the world. Her past roles include producer, financial journalist, editor and commissioner for factual programmes at Radio 4. Jane was the first woman to edit The Money Programme, the BBC’s main business, economics and personal finance programme. As Head of Creative partnerships, Jane delivered cultural projects ranging from Shakespeare 400 to Civilisations Festival. At Radio 4 she played a central role in the strategic review of the schedule and commissioned a wide range of programmes including Book of the Week, In Our Time, You and Yours and The Reunion, still flagships of the station today.
Jane is a Board Trustee of Libraries Connected, the sector support organisation for public libraries and holds advisory roles at the Royal Opera House and the University of Leeds Cultural Institute.
-
Phil Mason OBE
Advisory Board MemberPhil Mason OBE was a civil servant for 35 years until his retirement in March 2019. Joining the Department of Education and Science in 1984, transferring to the (then) Overseas Development Administration, the forerunner of DFID, in 1988 where he spent his career. He ran geographical programme; oversaw the Department’s financial propriety and control responsibilities, including the Department’s relations with Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee; and headed DFID’s work with the United Nations in international health.
He started DFID’s anti-corruption work in 2000, and developed the Department’s first anti-corruption efforts. Under his guidance, DFID established aid-funded UK law enforcement units to investigate and recover stolen assets in the UK originating from developing countries and to pursue bribery by British companies in developing countries. He helped negotiate the UN Convention against Corruption which was agreed in 2003. Between 2005 and 2009 he headed DFID’s Overseas Territories Department. He returned to lead the Anti-Corruption team again in January 2010.
-
The Rt Hon. Lord Wills
Advisory Board MemberLord Wills is a Labour Life peer who has sat under this title in the Lords since 12 July 2010. His full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Wills, and his given name is Michael David Wills. Prior to joining the Lords, he sat in the Commons as an MP, and was first elected in 1997.