1. May 2013 CGAP Conference Speaker Biographies Day 2
CGAP Conference
Speaker Biographies
Day 2
Friday 10th
May 2013
Robert Abercrombie, Director of Research & Consulting, NPC
Rob leads NPC’s Research & Consulting team. He is responsible for bringing in new
consultancy business and ensuring that research projects and client work are delivered
to a high standard. Rob brings to NPC more than a decade of strategy consulting
experience and has worked with clients from across the voluntary, public and private
sectors. Rob is a member of NPC’s Senior Management Team and a Governor of the
Cripplegate Foundation. Before NPC, he was Director of Community Business
Development at the Shaw Trust and worked at Tribal and Which?. Rob has also worked
pro bono for Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.
Dawn Austwick, CEO, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Dawn Austwick OBE is Chief Executive of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Formerly
Deputy Director of the British Museum, Project Director of Tate Modern, and a Principal
Consultant at KPMG, Dawn has an MBA from the London Business School and an
honorary doctorate from London Metropolitan University. She is a Trustee of Historic
Royal Palaces, Chair of Foundations Forum, a Director of Big Society Capital, and a
Companion of the Chartered Institute of Management.
Dr Matthew Bond, CGAP, London South Bank University
Matthew Bond is senior lecturer in sociology and research methods at London South
Bank University. He has published in the British Journal of Sociology and Political
Studies on elite behaviour in the United Kingdom.

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Alan Broadbent, CEO, Maytree Foundation, Canada
Alan Broadbent is Chairman and CEO of the Avana Capital Corporation, and founder
and Chairman of the Maytree foundation. Maytree focuses on poverty issues in Canada,
with a special interest in refugees and immigrants. Maytree is the initiator of the Toronto
Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) and ALLIES (Assisting Local Leaders
with Immigrant Employment Strategies), which facilitate immigrant success in the labour
market; and DiverseCity, which is reshaping leadership in society to better reflect the
diverse citizens of Canada.
Alan also co-founded and chairs the Caledon Institute of Social Policy (1992); Tamarack
– An Institute for Community Engagement (2001); and Diaspora Dialogues (2005),
which supports the creation and presentation of new writing that reflects the diversity of
Canada. These and other related organizations create and support civic engagement
projects to strengthen the public discourse on civil society, including: the Jane Jacobs
Prize, which celebrates “unsung heroes” in the Toronto Region; the Institute for
Municipal Finance and Governance at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto, and Ideas
That Matter, a public discourse initiative.
Alan is past-Chair, The Philanthropic Initiative; Founding Director and past-Vice Chair of
Philanthropic Foundations Canada and past-Chair, The Pacific Forest Trust. He is also
a Director of Sustainalytics Holdings B.V.; a Director of Invest Toronto; past-Chair of the
Tides Canada Foundation; advisor to the Literary Review of Canada; Member of the
Governors’ Council of the Toronto Public Library Foundation; Senior Fellow of Massey
College and Member of the Governing Board, and Member of the Order of Canada and
recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. He is the author of the book “Urban
Nation”, and co-editor of “Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit
Success”. Alan was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Ryerson
University in 2009.
Paul Caulfield, Bath University
Paul Caulfield is Senior FME Fellow in the Centre for Business, Organizations and
Society (CBOS). His academic work is built upon experience gained in Strategic
Planning and Corporate Responsibility with major UK corporations, where he was
responsible for community investment and engagement strategy focusing on improving
sustainable community investments including volunteering. Paul has considerable
operational experience of third sector operations in the developing world covering
sustainable development and capability building in Angola, Russia, Vietnam and
Bangladesh. Paul is currently Secretary for British Academy of Management’s
Sustainable and Responsible Business Track, and is actively involved with Unltd and
HEFCE where he has been mentoring and capacity building with young Social
Entrepreneurs. Paul is a Trustee of Bath Volunteer Centre and has been advising
several leading corporations on the impact and structure of Employee Volunteer
Programmes.
Dr Rose Lindsey, CGAP, University of Southampton
Rose Lindsey has a background in inter-disciplinary research, and works for the Third
Sector Research Centre at the University of Southampton. She is currently working on
two research projects drawing on Mass Observation Archive data. One of these is a

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project exploring public perceptions of the Big Society. The other is a longitudinal project,
funded by the ESRC, which examines attitudes towards volunteering and the role of the
state in providing for public services between 1981 - 2012.
Bharat Mehta OBE, CEO, Trust for London
Bharat Mehta is Chief Executive of Trust For London a funding body established to
tackle poverty and inequality in London.
Prior to this, he was Chief Executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (renamed
RETHINK). He has also worked for the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the
National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).
Bharat is a trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and a former non-
executive director of the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.
In January 2000, he was appointed OBE for services to NSF and the voluntary sector.
He sits on CGAP’s Advisory Group
Professor John Mohan, CGAP, University of Southampton
John Mohan is professor of social policy, University of Southampton, deputy director of
the Third Sector Research Centre and director of Spoke 2 of the CGAP work
programme. His current research focuses on the contemporary British voluntary sector,
including the distribution of resources and the pattern of engagement in voluntary
activity.
Tom McKenzie, CGAP, Cass Business School
Tom McKenzie is a research fellow at Cass Business School. Within CGAP, he focuses
on patterns of giving in the UK, using national household survey data. He co-authored
the ‘New State of Donation' and 'Giving back to communities of residence and of origin'
reports
Professor Cathy Pharoah, CGAP, Cass Business School
Cathy Pharoah is professor of charity funding and co-director of CGAP. She is an expert
in charitable funding from all sources, produced the Charity Market Monitor and recently
published reports on annual family foundation giving, international grant-making by
foundations and giving by migrants and minorities.
Professor Rob Reich, Stanford University, US
Rob Reich is associate professor of political science and courtesy professor in
philosophy and at the School of Education, at Stanford University. He is a faculty co-
director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and the director of the Program
in Ethics in Society, both at Stanford University. He is the author of “What are
Foundations For” in the current Boston Review, “A Failure of Philanthropy: American
charity shortchanges the poor, and public policy is partly to blame”, and Bridging

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Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (University of Chicago Press),
and co-editor of two new books: Occupy the Future (MIT Press) and Education, Justice,
and Democracy (University of Chicago Press).He is the recipient of several teaching
awards, including the Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Walter J.
Gores Award, Stanford University’s highest award for teaching. He is a board member of
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Before attending graduate
school, Mr. Reich was a sixth grade teacher at Rusk Elementary School in Houston,
Texas. More details at his personal webpage: http://robreich.stanford.edu
Professor Mark Rosenman, Director, Caring to Change
Mark Rosenman is a professor emeritus at the Union Institute & University and also
directs Caring to Change, an effort to promote grantmaking for the common good. For
more than twenty-five years, he has guided applied research projects to critically
strengthen the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, paying particular attention to its
capacity to affect public policy and institutions.
Dr. Rosenman has been called a leading nonprofit sector activist and scholar, writes
opinions frequently for print and on-line publications, and has been quoted in major
newspapers, and interviewed for radio and television news programs. He has spoken
widely across the US and occasionally abroad and has served on numerous boards,
committees and task groups for organizations concerned with the charitable sector.
Mark sees his work as an extension of his earlier professional efforts in the civil rights
movement, urban anti-poverty work, international and domestic program development,
and in higher education. He believes that a healthy and vital charitable sector is essen-
tial to the commonweal, citizen participation and democracy. He lives and works in
Washington, DC. (He is a member of CGAP’s Advisory Group
Richard Spencer, Head of Strategy for Better Future Programme, BT
Richard Spencer is the Head of Strategy for the Better Future Programme in BT plc,
which seeks to deliver the company's strategic priority to be a responsible and
sustainable business leader. Richard has worked for BT in a variety of roles in a career
spanning over 20 years, including starting a new mobile business in the Netherlands and
setting international call prices. For the past three years he has helped establish the
Better Future strategy, which brought together the sustainability and corporate
responsibility teams in BT. ropy, the Routledge Companion to Philanthropy, to be
published in 2013. With support from the Canadian social science granting council, this
team is conducting a comparative analysis of ‘place-based philanthropy,’ focussing on
the role of community foundations in community leadership.
Professor Marilyn Taylor, Institute for Voluntary Action Research
Marilyn Taylor is a member of the Advisory Group for the Centre for Charitable Giving
and Philanthropy. She has worked in and with the voluntary and community sector for
many years and has spoken and written widely on community development, partnership
working and the sector's contribution to democracy. Her book, Public Policy in the
Community (Palgrave Macmillan) was published in a second edition in 2011. She is
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Big Local. She is Emeritus Professor at the University of the West of England, Visiting
Professor at Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute
for Voluntary Action Research. She is also a trustee of Involve, Chair of the Institute
Advisory Group for the Institute for Volunteering Research and a member of the National
Council for Voluntary Organisations Advisory Council.
Mike Tuffrey, Co-founding Director, Corporate Citizenship
Mike is a founding director of Corporate Citizenship, having worked with companies on
their responsible business practice since 1987. His clients include Centrica, Diageo,
Ford, HSBC, Mars and Unilever. In 1991, he launched Corporate Citizenship Briefing,
the leading journal about social responsibility and business sustainability, and remains
its editor-in-chief.
An economics graduate, Mike is a chartered accountant by profession. He qualified with
KPMG and previously worked as director of finance for a national charity.
Mike’s public service roles have included serving as a council leader and elected
member of the London Assembly. Formerly a member of the London Sustainable
Development Commission, he was named by the Evening Standard as one of the 1000
most influential Londoners for his work on the environment.
Dr Karl Wilding, NCVO
Karl Wilding is NCVO’s Head of Policy and Research. He is an Honorary Visiting Fellow
at Cass Business School’s Centre for Charity Effectiveness, where he also contributes to
the ESRC Centre for Giving and Philanthropy. His professional interests
include voluntary sector funding and finance, the relative roles of the state and voluntary
organisations, and the impact of new technologies on voluntary action. Karl is a trustee
of St Albans Centre for Voluntary Service, Creating the Future (a US nonprofit) and the
BeatBullying Group
About CGAP
The ESRC Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP) is the first academic
centre in the UK dedicated to research on charitable giving and philanthropy. Three main
research strands focus on individual and business giving, social redistribution and
charitable activity, and the institutions of giving. CGAP is a consortium comprising Cass
Business School, University of Edinburgh Business School, University of Kent,
University of Southampton, University of Strathclyde Business School and NCVO.
CGAP’s coordinating ‘hub’ is based at Cass Business School. CGAP is funded by the
ESRC, the Office for Civil Society, the Scottish Government and Carnegie UK Trust.
For further information on CGAP, visit www.cgap.org.uk