THET

Staff

UK Staff

Jane Cockerell – Chief Executive
jane@thet.org +44 (0) 20 7290 3885

Jane joined THET in January 2010 as Director of Programmes and brings with her almost a decade of experience in the field of international aid and development. Her experience has been primarily in public health programmes, and she has worked in countries including Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan and Sierre Leone. She has worked for a range of organisations, including GOAL, Merlin, International Rescue Committee, and was Executive Director of African Revival before joining THET. She took up the position of CE in January 2012.

John Beverley – Director of Finance and Administration
johnbeverley@thet.org +44 (0) 20 7290 3883

John joined THET in August 2010 after a spell as a public sector management consultant. During this time he completed assignments for HMRC, Carmarthenshire County Council, Identity & Passport Service and the Home Office. John’s previous career was in voluntary sector finance including British Red Cross, NCVO, Oxfam Hong Kong, WaterAid & Shelter amongst others. John is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

John is THET’s first full-time Finance & Administration Director.

Henrietta Blackmore – Senior Somaliland Programme Manager
henrietta@thet.org – +44 (0) 20 7290 3888

Henrietta joined THET in June 2009 as Programme Development Manager. In September 2010 she moved to the Somaliland team as Senior Somaliland Programme Manager. She has spent the last five years working in the international development sector after completing her doctorate on gender, leadership and the church. Her experience involves working for NGOs based in the UK and overseas including 3 and a half years based in Ethiopia, and two years managing donor programmes for the UK government in Addis Ababa.

Sharon Horder - Programme Coordinator (Somaliland)
sharon@thet.org + 44 (0) 20 7290 3889

Sharon has worked as Programme Coordinator (Somaliland) since April 2010 having joined THET in August 2008 as Charity Administrator. She has a Masters degree in Development Studies from SOAS, and subsequently spent a year working on HIV/AIDS programmes for a community-based organisation in Malawi, and leading volunteer groups in Malawi and Zambia. Before joining THET she spent a year living in Melbourne, where she worked for Oxfam Australia. Sharon works full-time at THET.

Samira Abu-Helil – Programme Officer (Somaliland)
samira@thet.org +44 (0) 20 7290 3886

Samira joined THET in July 2009 as an intern on the Somaliland Programme and then became the Somaliland Programme assistant in November 2009 and then Programme Officer in September 2011. She is a graduate from Loughborough University with a BA in International Relations, as part of which she studied South African Politics and wrote her dissertation on intervention and the Genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia. Samira has lived in the Middle East, travelled around South East Asia, volunteering on conservation projects in Borneo and worked in Africa as part of the Somaliland programme.

Yassmin Mohamed – Programme Assistant (Somaliland)
yassmin@thet.org +44 (0) 20 7290 3886

Yassmin graduated from  Goldsmiths College, University of London with a BA in History and Anthropology. Since graduation Yassmin has lived in Somaliland working and volunteering for local and international NGOs. Prior to joining THET in March 2011 Yassmin worked with SOS Children’s Village in Hargeisa, Somaliland on a project aimed at supporting orphans and vulnerable children.

Cath Butterfield – Programme Coordinator
cath@thet.org + 44 (0) 20 7290 3891

Cath joined THET in July 2008 and is currently coordinating programmes in Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana and Malawi, as well as general work supporting the team. She has an MSc in Environment and Development. Her experience includes founding and managing Belize’s first national HIV/AIDS newsletter, facilitating at an international learning centre, and volunteering in conservation projects in Indonesia and Uganda.

Andrew Jones - Senior Partnerships Manager
andrew@thet.org +44 (0) 20 7290 3895

After an early career in NHS management, Andrew moved into the voluntary sector as CEO of a hospice in Surrey. His introduction to international development came as CEO of Kulika UK, a development organisation specialising in promoting sustainable livelihoods in East Africa. Immediately before joining THET, he worked for five years as a consultant in the voluntary sector, specialising in organisational development; coaching and mentoring; and collaboration and merger for voluntary sector organisations.

Victoria Tayler – Health Partnerships Manager
victoria@thet.org +44(0)20 7290 3894

Victoria joined THET in August 2011 as Health Partnerships Manager. She has spent the last five years working in the field of  development following a career in the social sciences as a survey manager on a large household survey. Her experience involves working for NGOs based in the UK and overseas including 3 and a half years based in South Africa working for HIV and SRH service delivery organisations.

Rachel Schofield – Partnerships Development Coordinator
rach@thet.org +44 (0) 20 7290 3897

Rachel joined THET in May 2010 as the Charity Administrator and has now moved to the Health Partnership Scheme. Prior to joining THET, she completed an MSc in Development Management at the LSE. After graduating Rachel worked for a while in field of youth microfinance.

Dan Ritman – Evaluation and Learning Manager
dan@thet.org +44(0)20 7920 3893

Dan joined THET in July 2011. Following a postgraduate degree in Tropical Agricultural Development in 2001 he worked for four years for the NGO FARM-Africa, supporting projects in east and South Africa. He has spent the last five years at the charity Pilotlight, measuring the results of charity-business partnerships and helping charities articulate and monitor their impact. He believes evaluation is something everyone can do naturally and confidently, once the jargon is cleared away.

Emily Burn – Evaluation and Learning Officer
emilyburn@thet.org +44(0) 20 7920 3897

Emily joined THET in February 2011, shortly after completing an MSc in Global Governance & Ethics at UCL.  Prior to doing a Masters, she worked as an HR generalist in the private sector.  Since then, she has done a research internship with the Young Foundation’s international work programme and volunteers with Room2Heal, an asylum seeker charity in London.

Maggie Collins – Communications Coordinator
maggie@thet.org – +44 (0)20 7290 3896

Maggie joined THET in July 2011 as Communications Coordinator. She has a Masters Degree in International Relations. She comes to THET most recently from Irish Aid, where she worked on Press & Public Information. Prior to that Maggie was a content writer for a web design and internet consultancy agency.

Louise Leak - Grants Programme Officer
louiseleak@thet.org – +44 (0)20 7290 3894

Louise joined THET in September following internships with Save the Children and UNICEF UK. She received an MA in ‘Conflict, Governance and International Development’ from the University of East Anglia in 2010 whilst working for two local charities delivering workshops on development issues to teenagers and young adults. Louise has also taken part in Durham University’s Project Thailand scheme to Nan Province in northern Thailand and worked with disabled adults as part of the Camp America Scheme.

Diane Propsting- Programme Assistant
diane@thet.org – +44 (0)20 7290 3895

Since graduating from the University of York with a History degree, Diane has been gaining practical experience working and volunteering for various Charities and NGOs both in the UK and abroad. Prior to THET she spent a year based in Mexico coordinating the project support and administrative assistant to the successful running of conservation and community development programmes in that region and internationally for Global Vision International.

Jennifer Joseph – Finance Officer-Grants
jennifer@thet.org +44 (0)20 7290 3884

Jennifer joined THET in November 2010 as the Finance Officer-Grants. She comes from Sri Lanka and has previous experience working for practices and INGOs both in the UK and Sri Lanka. She has an Honours degree in Applied Accounting and is also an Affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Louise Cripps – Accountant
louise@thet.org + 44 (0) 20 7290 3882

Louise has an Accountancy Degree from the University of Exeter and has previous experience as an Accountant for a wide range of organisations both in the US as well as the UK. Louise works part-time at THET on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Michelle Geiger - Administration Assistant
michelle@thet.org +44 (0) 20 7290 3892

Michelle joined THET in May 2011 following internships at Oxfam and AbleChildAfrica, specialising in HR and Fundraising. Prior to THET, she also worked with Vinvolved, a UK charity helping young people to get into volunteering. Michelle has a Masters degree in Development Studies from the University of Manchester and grew up in 6 different countries, including Namibia, Kenya, Germany, Israel, the Czech Republic and the UK.

Professor John MacDermot
john@thet.org + 44 (0) 20 7290 3899

John MacDermot is a physician who spent most of his academic career at Imperial College, London. He was Head of Undergraduate Medicine there until he joined THET in October 2006, and applies his previous experience to develop, support and evaluate educational links between UK medical and nursing schools and those overseas. He has a longstanding interest in the design and development of medical courses and in the particular problems faced by new medical schools.

Dr. Sylvia Watkins – Postgraduate Honorary Advisor
sylvia@thet.org

Sylvia is a retired physician/medical oncologist at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage. Before that, she worked at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the Leicester Royal Infirmary, the University of Heidelberg Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital. A few months in “former Biafran territory” in 1970 sowed the seeds of her interest in medicine in Africa, an interest which continues to grow.

Dr. David Percy – Honorary Advisor to the Zambia Programme

David retired as a medical practitioner in November 2007 having spent most of his career teaching and managing postgraduate medical education and managing health professional education in the Department of Health [England]. He worked for the last two years of his career as a director at THET. When he is not sailing his yacht in the Mediterranean, he works with Lord Crisp on the Zambian UK Health Workforce Alliance and with THET on its Zambia programme.

David qualified in medicine at the University of London, is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the University of Winchester.

Zambia

Emily Measures- Zambia Programme Manager
emily@thet.org

Emily joined THET in March 2010, and manages THET’s Zambia programme. Prior to joining THET, she worked with the UN for five years, focusing on food security and health in East Africa. Emily works full time at THET in Zambia.

Rhonwyn Cornell – Health Links Coordinator
rhonwyn@thet.org

Born and raised in South Africa, Rhonwyn joined THET in Sept 2009 as the Links Development Officer. She has an Honours degree in Gender and Transformation and a Masters in Social Development. Rhonwyn has worked in numerous development sectors, including education, food security, HIV/AIDS and enterprise development. She has experience in project development and evaluation, organisational capacity building and training. Rhonwyn works full time at THET in Zambia

Somaliland

Abdirashiid Osman Ibrahim – Country Representative (Somaliland)
abdirashiid@thet.org

Mohamud A. Yonis – Programme Officer
mohamud@thet.org +252 2444 5490

Mohamud joined THET in September 2010, as a Programme Officer.  He has diploma in NGO management, certificate in advanced conflict transformation, and he is currently completing his BBA from the University of Hargeisa. Before this, in the last five years he has worked with  range of LNGOs and INGOs in all Somaliland regions in the sectors of Human right, HIV/AIDS, food security and conflict resolution. Prior to joining THET he has been working with LNGO called BVO as Projects Manager implementing projects funded by NED, AAI and EC through HOAREN.

Mustafe Faarah Miigane – Somaliland Programme Officer
Mustafe@thet.org +252 2 4228520

Mustafe joined THET in September 2010 as a Somaliland Programme officer. He has spent the last six years working in Somaliland development sector both urban and rural areas like managing youth development trainings, HIV and AIDS, education projects, food security, water and primary health care trainings. He completed his first degree of business administration from University of Hargeisa and currently studying development studies at Admas University. His experience involves working for NGOs based in Somaliland. He collaborated with Global fund, UNICEF and ActionAid and was the Executive Director of Somaliland Hope Association before joining THET

Samatar Ahmed – Office Administrator
samatar@thet.org

Samatar joined THET in July 2010 and works as an Office Administrator at THET’s field office in Hargeisa Somaliland.  He graduated from the University of Hargeisa with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration.  Prior to joining THET he worked as Administrative Assistant for a local Corporation in Hargeisa, and also worked voluntarily with two local Non-governmental organizations.

Emilien Nkusi – Health Systems Capacity Building Manager
emilien@thet.org 00 (252) 2 4716548

Emilien began his role at THET’s office in Somaliland on January 2011 and joins THET with almost a decade of experience. He worked with Kigali Teaching University Hospital  and also with the Rwandan Ministry of Health as a Professional in charge of Integrated Health Management Information System within the Planning, Policy & Capacity Building Unit. Later alone he became the coordinator of Integrated Health Management Information System. In the last two years, he has been respectively the Coordinator of Monitoring and Evaluation Unit and Non Communicable Disease Department.  Academically, Emilien is a Medical Doctor and holder of a Masters Degree in Public Health from ‘National University of Rwanda – School of Public Health’ and is currently preparing an ’Advanced Epidemiology especially in BioStatistics’ from the Liverpool University UK.