OXFORD INSTITUTE OF CHARITY - Key Persons

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• Director at Giving Evidence, Expert on Effective Philanthropy, Financial Times Columnist

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• Director Centre of Philanthropy, University of Kent

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• Senior Lecturer, Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Management at CASS Business School

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• Director
• Director Charity Futures Read
• Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Insaan Group

Farahnaz is the founder and chief executive officer of Insaan Group. Farahnaz is a social entrepreneur, political scientist and humanist. She has worked with the OSCE, the United Nations, the World Bank and non-profits, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, India, Kenya and Tanzania. In parallel, she has pursued an academic path in political science as a teaching fellow at Harvard University for the late Professor Stanley Hoffmann and, more recently, as a faculty member at Zayed University in Dubai, lecturing on global history and humanities. Farahnaz holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (USA), a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland) and a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University (Canada). She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Exeter and language training at the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK). Farahnaz serves on the board of directors of Insaan Group, and as an observer and/or advisor on all social enterprises backed by Insaan, as well as on the board of Polykar Foundation.

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• Director Charity Futures Read

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• Chairman
• Director
• Chairman Charity Futures

Leonard Stall is a media entrepreneur who has pivoted much of his work focus towards the charity and not-for-profit sector over recent years. He was behind the launch of Philanthropy Age (philanthropyage.com) and is currently editor-in-chief of the not-for-profit title dedicated to informing and inspiring intelligent giving. He introduced the concept of, and co-drafted, the first truly international Code of Practice for Non-Profit Organisations, recently published under the watchful management of British Standards. The Code, primarily focused on international non-profits, offers guidance on governance, transparency, and impact measurement, in a bid to help improve the professionalism and efficiency of the sector around the world. Leonard also edited the book How to do Good (London Wall 2017) and is the driving force behind its related international speaker tour. He is a board director of social enterprise Insaan Group (insaangroup.org), and an Advisory Board Member for the UAE's Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. He also sits on the Advisory Boards of UK charity sector title Alliance magazine (https://www.alliancemagazine.org), and The University of Birmingham's Institute of Global Innovation (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/global-goals/igi/index.aspx). He holds an Honorary Doctorate (DUniv) from The University of Birmingham.

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• Warden of New College Oxford

Miles Young was an undergraduate historian at New College in 1976. Forty years later he returned as the Warden. His business career has been spent in advertising and marketing, most recently as Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy and Mather, a leading global communications network. Peter Miles Young is the author of Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age. More than half of his career has been spent outside the UK, in China, and then in North America. He retains a strong interest in the issues facing developing countries, especially in Asia. More than half of his career has been spent outside the UK, in China, and then in North America. He retains a strong interest in the issues facing developing countries, especially in Asia.

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• Acting Director of OIC
• Director Charity Futures
• Founder - Director of Charity Futures

As Acting Director of OIC, Sir Stephen's focus is on building a solid foundation for the Institute from which it can thrive and prosper into the future, and especially in creating a sound financial base. Sir Stephen is also founder-director of Charity Futures, which launched in July 2016. He was formerly Chief Executive of ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations) until 2016. In this role he was highly influential in determining government policy on the third sector, particularly for its part delivering public services. "This is a wonderful legacy project for me but more importantly it will be a major contribution to the sector I love and have worked in for some three decades." For 10 years he also chaired the Social Investment Business, the UK's largest social investor, and is a trustee of Helen and Douglas House Hospice, the world's first children's hospice. Stephen's recent national roles have included reporting on choice and competition in the NHS for the Prime Minister in 2011, and writing a major report for the UK government in 2014, ‘Winterbourne View - time for action', which called for radical reform in the way we care for people with learning disabilities in the twenty-first century. He has been in national roles at TGWU, NUT and AMA, and was the Founding Personnel Director of the National Lottery Charities Board. He was a Councillor in Lambeth and an active member of the health authorities for Guys and St Thomas' hospitals over two decades. He is also a public appointments assessor.