NPC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- in 2021 As a Senior Consultant
Abigail joined NPC in 2021 as a Senior Consultant, bringing over 7 years' Research and Evaluation experience. A specialist in Theory of Change development, Impact Measurement and planning, developing and testing MEL systems for charities and funders.
Since joining NPC Abbie has worked on over 20 research projects, including grant-makers across a range of fields, such as Forces in Mind Trust, Tommy's, The Health Foundation and The MacArthur Foundation. Abigail is currently working with the UK Safer Internet Centre to review and refine their existing MEL and to develop new approaches within a coherent Evaluation Framework.
Before NPC, Abigail spent 2 years in the tech industry, analysing social data to map out cultural trends and uncover insights into attitudinal and behavioural shifts. Abigail has a background in Social Psychology and Neuroscience, and previously worked with the NSPCC and RNIB to explore unconscious drivers of donation behaviour.
Abigail has a keen interest in corporate social impact, tackling climate change and using psychological techniques to understand and address social issues.
Job Titles:
- Independent Consultant
- Trustee
Albert Tucker MA is an independent consultant and has extensive experience and practice in senior manager and in leadership roles in community development, regeneration and social enterprise across diverse communities in the UK and Internationally. When consulting Albert brings 40 years of experience working at all levels across the voluntary, public and private sectors and with a strong ethical and commercial background drawn out of many years of successfully leading organisations with combined social and economic objectives.
Albert has been and remains active in supporting the voluntary sector. He was a Trustee of Comic Relief, The BIG Lottery Fund, and City Parochial Foundation for over 15 yrs, supporting cutting edge work in the voluntary sector and a non-Executive Director of The Places for People Group, one of the largest and leading Registered Social Landlords in the UK, also Chair of the Assurance and Regulation Board responsible for leading on governance, regulation and social impact performance. He is a Governance and Business Adviser for AFFORD an African diaspora organisation advising Business in Africa and the UK.
He has an MA in Social Policy and Administration.
Alex works within NPC as Director: Transforming Funding. Alongside his team he works with a range of funders, philanthropists, and impact investors to ensure that they can achieve the greatest impact.
Alex is interested in a systemic approach to tackling complex issues and is experienced in building and supporting partnerships to achieve this. He has experience of the full lifecycle of grant-making, from developing innovative programmes through to supporting and undertaking evaluations using a range of methodologies. He has also written theories of change and strategies for a wide range of organisations
Alex has worked in the social sector for 17 years and is a Clore Social Leadership fellow. Prior to working at NPC, Alex was Head of Funding at The National Lottery Community Fund where he led a range of multi-million pound strategic investments, including programmes aimed at building diverse partnerships to reduce health inequalities and tackling loneliness. Alex is a trustee of Leap Confronting Conflict.
He was listed in Spear's Magazine 2025 top ranking of philanthropy advisors.
Job Titles:
- Consulting Services and Projects for Change
- Head of Income Generation
Job Titles:
- Policy and Programmes Partner
Ben is NPC's Policy and Programmes Partner. He provides senior support on strategy and delivery for effective programmes to influence policy, shape public narratives, and convene civil society to win social change, especially via multi-partner collaborations such as the Everyone's Environment programme.
He has over three decades policy, advocacy, communications and campaign experience leading not-for-profits to secure change in policy and practice, as well as bouts in Whitehall and Westminster. Leading coalitions and networks that deliver impact has been at the heart of his work. He was founding Director of the Asylum Reform Initiative, an alliance of leading refugee organisations, where he built and led the UK's largest ever campaign coalition for refugee rights, Together With Refugees - now over 600 members strong.
Previous roles include: CEO of Bond, the UK network of international development NGOs, where he set up a programme to explore sector futures and a joint campaign that secured the 0.7% aid commitment in law; UK Director of Crisis Action, forging international NGO campaign coalitions to protect civilians in conflict; Director of Communications and Campaigns at Shelter; Director of Action for Southern Africa, successor to the Anti-Apartheid Movement, leading campaigns on South Africa's trade deal with the EU; and Associate Director at Forster Communications, leading projects with public, private and voluntary sector clients. He has been on the boards of Friends of the Earth and the Fairtrade Foundation, and of a range of international NGO networks. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, focusing on civil society strategies responding to globalisation and populism - reflected in the book From Anger to Action: Inside the global movements for social justice, peace, and a sustainable planet he co-authored with Harriet Lamb (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
Brendan works as a Senior Consultant specialising in User Involvement. He is currently supporting local and national partner learning as part of Sport England's drive to increase sport and physical activity for people, and their communities, in order to reduce inequalities.
Brendan has 20 years' experience working in the private and charity sectors. From managing user involvement in the design, delivery, and evaluation of services within a county council. To supporting a grant-giving trust to involve users at board-level and supporting young people to shape Further Education college inspections.
As manager for the UK Government's flagship Youth Democracy and Leadership programme, he managed 120 client relationships to empower 2000+ participants to influence and inform decisions that affect their lives.
As a Principal, Charlotte leads projects that help charities and funders evaluate, improve and communicate their impact, with a interest in governance and leadership. Recent projects include research on leadership and decision making throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, published in Charity Boards in Recovery and NPC's trusteeship seminars run in partnership with The Clothworkers' Company. She enjoys coaching clients and often works in a facilitative style, helping to build capacity in an organisation and allowing clients to retain ownership of work. Charlotte also leads NPC's work on children and young people. Current projects include leading NPC's work with the Stone Family Foundation in the UK, and supporting charities in a variety of ways: from developing new strategies to implementing measurement frameworks.
Before joining NPC, Charlotte studied for an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences at UCL, and has a keen interest in how behavioural insights can be used to affect attitude and behaviour change. Prior to this, Charlotte worked for KPMG as a Management Consultant, where she worked in a variety of areas, including change management, culture change and organisation design across the private and public sectors.
Principal: Involvement and Decision-making (maternity leave)
Claire works at NPC as Principal: Funder Evaluation and Learning. She has worked in research and evaluation in and around the charity sector for over eight years and brings expertise in designing and leading mixed methods projects, with a particular focus on qualitative methods. At NPC, she has supported clients including the Santander Foundation and NHS Charities Together to understand their impact and develop learning to inform their programmes. She is currently leading our work creating a new framework for funders to evaluate and learn, while balancing trust, evidence and equity.
Before joining NPC, Claire worked at Social Life, leading a range place-based research and evaluation projects for private, public sector and charity clients. She also brings experience in academic research, where she focused on market-based approaches in development. She started her career working in fundraising for Recode a digital inclusion charity in Brazil.
Claire has a longstanding involvement in the grant-making sector, as a trustee of the William Grant Foundation, where she champions the organisation's funding for the environmental sector. Claire holds an MA in Anthropology of Development from SOAS, University of London.
Principal: Funder Evaluation and Learning (maternity leave)
Daisy is a systems change and participatory design practitioner with a background in anthropology and service design. She helps people, organisations, and places think, learn, and act differently to create lasting social and environmental impact.
Before joining NPC, Daisy was a Senior Service & Systems Designer at the RSA, leading programmes that combined research, design, and coalition-building to address complex challenges- from embedding social capital in policy and practice, to shaping inclusive growth strategies, to supporting community-led, nature-based play initiatives.
Previously at the Innovation Unit, Daisy led service and systems change programmes across health, care, justice, and education. Her work focused on bottom-up, community-led transformation, bringing together people with lived experience, local services, and civic leaders to reimagine how systems respond to need. As part of this, she helped scale the Living Well programme across the UK- transforming systems by placing people's strengths and lived experience at the heart of mental health support.
She brings expertise in cross-sector collaboration, field-building, and translating evidence and lived experience into strategy, policy and funding decisions.
David is a Senior Consultant specialising in Impact Investing. He is currently working with Rethink Mental Illness to support their work increasing quality supported accommodation in the community for people with severe mental illness through using a systems lens and innovative approaches to social investment to unlock and scale solutions.
David also works with the MacArthur Foundation on the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) initiative in NPC's capacity as Learning Partner and leads NPC's work as impact partner to Social Investment Scotland (SIS) Ventures, providing impact practice and management support. Among other projects, David has worked with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport researching and appraising options for the use of grant subsidy into blended finance to support the social sector and with Fair4All finance in co-designing their Community Finance Resilience Fund. He is particularly interested in the potential of impact investing as a lever to deliver systemic changes in how and where capital flows, and in redirecting it to grow other forms of value such as natural and social capital.
David brings experience in impacting investing from working at Big Society Capital and with Good Finance. He is a Director/Trustee and Vice-Chair of the Enlighten Learning Trust, a growing multi-academy trust encompassing both primary and secondary schools. David holds degrees in philosophy and divinity, and a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in social philosophy, ethics and ecclesiology.
David is NPC's Associate Director US. Based in the US David leads our work with US foundations and charities and helps NPC deliver research and evaluation projects. He is an economist with more than 25 years' experience in the non-profit and public sectors in the UK and the US.
David was NPC's Head of Measurement & Evaluation for three years-helping charities find simple, realistic ways to measure their impact, even where their activities and services are complex. He directed and worked on a wide variety of projects, Unlocking value, the development of our Four Pillar approach to impact measurement and shared measurement projects and co-authored NPC's guidance on economic evaluation.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Co - Founder and Executive Director at the Black Footballers Partnership
Delroy Corinaldi has advised consumer groups, charities and businesses on strategy, communications and reputation management throughout his career and was responsible for these issues as Director of External Affairs at StepChange Debt Charity, where he also sat on the board, and in roles at Which?, Wonga and as Special Advisor to the British Virgin Islands Government. He was also formerly a Special Advisor at FIPRA Public Affairs and strategic advisor to David Lammy MP and Diane Abbott MP.
Delroy is currently the co-founder and executive director at the Black Footballers Partnership which gives voice and support to elite level footballers through research, collaboration and strategic engagement.
As well as sitting as a trustee at NPC, Delroy also sits as a trustee of The Daniel Phelan Trust, High Trees Community Development Trust and The Registry Trust where he sits on the HR & RemCo committee. He was formerly a trustee at The Terrence Higgins Trust where he sat on the risk committee and led on DEI issues. He is a graduate of Manchester University.
Elizabeth is a Senior Consultant at NPC specialising in Impact investing. She is an experienced project and programme manager having worked across a range of sectors (housing, urban planning, healthcare, humanitarian response) and geographies (Australasia, South America, South East Asia, Europe). Originally trained and practiced as an architect, Elizabeth went on to complete an additional MA in Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes University. She has since worked for Arup International Development, was co-founder of the consultant network Stet and had a previous role as the Evaluation and Learning Principal at NPC.
Elizabeth has more than 15 years experience leading teams to undertake various research projects and evaluations to inform strategy and policy change. For example, evaluating the MacArthur Foundations Catalytic Capital impact investing initiative, gathering learnings from the Connect Fund-a partnership between the Barrow Cadbury Trust and the Access Foundation and with Action Against Hunger to support their Community Engagement strategy.
Elizabeth's experience includes providing strategic and governance advice, as well as detailed guidance such as due diligence, indicator development, and analysis. She has also worked directly with investment funds, for example the MAN Group's Community Housing Fund as an Impact partner. She is particularly interested in working with clients to best support the embedding of research learnings into future policy and practice.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Senior Consultant
- Expert
Emma is an expert consultant who enables charities and grant-makers to drive social change through robust monitoring, evaluation and impact measurement.
She uses her facilitation skills to lead theory of change and measurement framework development processes, incorporating cross-organisational views and centring lived experience.
She has co-authored Monitoring, evaluation and learning with trust and equity: a guide for grant-makers and philanthropists, a guide for funders to navigate the demand for more trust-based philanthropy and greater focus on equity, with the need for gathering vital data and evidence to understand and improve impact.
Currently Emma is the monitoring and evaluation specialist for Everyone's Environment, a partnership between NPC and more than 80 charities across the sector seeking to accelerate action on the social impacts of the climate and nature crisis.
Yearly, Emma volunteers as a carer, supporting disabled people to partake in outdoor education.
Job Titles:
- Director: Data and Impact
Erwin leads NPC's projects related to data, impact and learning. He supports all types of social impact organisations to go from doing good to doing great. He has a relentless focus on impact, challenging peers, partners and clients to make evidence-led decisions on those things that matter.
Erwin has over 10 years of expertise in supporting organsiations with impact measurement, strategy and learning. He has a track-record of working on innovative approaches and does not steer away from challenging projects. He pushes organisations to think outside the box and find novel ways to measure and improve their impact. Recently, Erwin has supported numerous organisations to pioneer new approaches to systems change evaluation.
He has a keen eye for meaningful and proportionate evaluation, challenging the sector to use data that is already there and design new measures in an efficient and purposeful way. As an economist, he lets data analysis guide his decision making, ensuring conclusions are robust and sound. At the same time, he understands the importance of diverse voices and equitable evaluations to ensure findings are valid, valuable and relevant to all stakeholders, especially those with least power.
Erwin works closely with senior management teams and boards to ensure data and evidence are feeding into strategic decision making. He is a trusted advisor on topics such as data dashboards, operational excellence, the use of AI and culture change. He designs and leads large capability and capacity building programmes to ensure impact can be accelerated and delivered at scale.
Famin is a Senior Consultant who joined NPC in September 2025, with over five years of experience as a social impact lawyer.
Fiona retired in spring 2025 having previously served as the Philanthropy Director at the City of London Corporation, charged with shaping and leading the £55m annual contribution of time, assets, money and skills made by the Corporation. This role required her to operate cross-sectorally across the City Corporation's many business, governmental and not-for-profit stakeholders, and drew on over 20 years previous not for profit experience in senior roles in organisations such as British Red Cross, Business in the Community and, most recently, Teach First.
A qualified Solicitor, Fiona was also a board member for Islington Giving and served on the London and South East Grants Committee for BBC Children in Need. She was awarded an MBE in 2010 for services to Corporate Social Responsibility.
Flora is NPC's Communications Executive. She supports NPC's communications work, contributing towards digital content, weekly newsletters and social media activity. Flora also plays a key role in supporting the planning and delivery of NPC's events programme.
Before joining NPC, Flora worked in communications and social media roles across the non-profit sector, with a specific focus on young people's well-being. She is fellow of the Charityworks scheme and has also volunteered within mental health support services. Flora is particularly passionate about using strategic communications and engagement practices to bring about positive change.
Job Titles:
- Communications Manager
- Communications Manager ( Maternity Leave )
- Events
Gillian is a Communications Manager at NPC. She manages NPC's event programme, including the annual NPC Ignites conference and our Leading Impact webinars. She is responsible for NPC's website and social media channels. Alongside this, Gillian manages the development of NPC's digital marketing plans, brand identity and communication strategies.
Before joining NPC, Gillian lived in New York and worked for the charity, New Alternatives for Children as their Community Relations and Marketing Coordinator. Prior to that Gillian worked for five years in content creation for Reach Plc.
James is NPC's Head of Policy working across our policy and external affairs work, leading the development and advocacy for policies that maximise the impact of the impact sector. At NPC, James has led work with No.10 to understand the role of the impact sector in achieving the Labour Government's 5 missions, supported the work of the Treasury's Social Impact Investing Advisory Group, and fed into the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero's Net Zero Council as part of Everyone's Environment. He is also leading NPC's work on Children & Young People's Mental Health.
Prior to joining NPC, James worked in a variety of policy areas including children's social care, family support, housing, and public health. He also volunteered for several environmental charities. Most recently, James worked at Foundations focusing on evidence-based policy for children and families.
Lucy moved into local government following ten years as a community activist in North Islington, Greater Manchester, and Hackney. Since then she has held senior roles across the charity, local and central government sectors. She was a charity CEO at CSV (now known as Volunteering Matters), ran the local government improvement agency, was a director of public services at HM Treasury and was the chief executive of Bristol City Council, leading the council though local government re-organisation.
Lucy received her CBE for services to local government in 2009.
Job Titles:
- HR, Operations & Executive Support Officer
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant: Innovation
Peter Wheeler joined The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as a London-based Executive Vice President in September 2013. He has a long and distinguished career as an investment banker having been the Head of Wholesale Banking for EMEA and Americas for Standard Chartered and previously a partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, working initially in New York in the 1980s, then based in Hong Kong, where he established and led the firm's Investment Banking business for Asia outside of Japan from 1991 to 1998. He was the firm's first Chief Representative in Beijing.
In his post-banking business life, Peter was a seed investor and Board member of Climate Change Capital until it was sold to Bunge in 2012. He sits on the Board of Rift Valley Corporation, a dynamic African agro-industrial enterprise which owns and operates a diversified portfolio of subsidiary companies across seven operating platforms in Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. He is a founding partner of Silk Road Finance Corporation, a Hong Kong-based and Chinese- led investment and advisory boutique working with Chinese State-owned and private companies in their activities on the Belt and Road geographies. He is an active seed investor in a personal capacity in innovative new companies in the renewables and low carbon economies.
He is a Board member of Social Finance, a social enterprise dedicated to the transformation of the third sector's capabilities by developing access to a range of innovative financing methods. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Stranded Assets Program. He has recently served on the Board of the Young Foundation (as Chair) and Virgin Unite.
Job Titles:
- Finance
- Operations Manager
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- Finance
- Operations Officer
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- People & Operations Manager
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- Advisory Council
- Chairman
- Trustee
Sir Harvey McGrath is Chair of the Advisory Council and a Director of the Impact investing Institute, and Chair of London Treasury Ltd. He is the former CEO and Chair of Man Group plc, and former Chair of Prudential plc, the London Development Agency, the Governors of Birkbeck, University of London, and of Better Society Capital.
An active philanthropist and social investor, Harvey has supported and led many social purpose organisations and is currently Chair of AllChild, which supports at-risk children and young people, and an advisory board member of the Sutton Trust and Greenwood Place. He has been the Co-Chair of the University of Cambridge Philanthropic Advisory Board and is a Companion of the Guild of Cambridge Benefactors.
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