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Fazil Ali

Fazil Ali - Finance Officer

Fazil manages the Finance and Disbursement of project funds. He holds a Masters Degree in Finance and he is also a qualified project manager and accredited business advisor from London with over 15 years' experience in private, not-for-profit and public sector management. He has lived and worked in parts of Asia, Middle East and Africa and is a life member of YMCA.

Eleanor Harrison

Eleanor Harrison - CEO

Eleanor joined the GlobalGiving UK team in October 2012 as our new Chief Executive. Eleanor has a wealth of experience leading teams in the non-profit sector both in the UK and overseas. Most recently Eleanor was the Director of Action for Children in Conflict (2007-2011), a small, high impact charity working with street and other vulnerable children and their families in Thika District, Kenya. Prior to this Eleanor worked for the Refugee Council developing and implementing office and community projects for refugees and asylum seekers in the West Midlands, UK. Eleanor has also worked with young people in Uganda on HIV/AIDS issues, with rural schools in Western Kenya on educational resource development, taught in Bosnia and conducted research work in Australia and the UK for charities. Eleanor was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship Award by Rotary International in 2009 for her community service work. She was also nominated for a Community Service Award in Kenya in 2011. Eleanor holds an MA in International Relations (Peace & Conflict Resolution) from the University of Queensland, Australia and a BA (Hons) in Social & Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Eleanor is passionate about helping people and their communities to realise their potential and deliver for themselves and others.

Paul McWilliams

Paul McWilliams - Marketplace Manager

Paul McWilliams manages GlobalGiving UK's corporate partnerships. He holds a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Stirling and a Master's in African Studies from the University of Oxford. Paul has also worked at various levels in the airline industry and, before joining GlobalGiving's UK team in March 2011, worked in Project Operations at the ARCHIVE Institute.

Zdravka Mihaljevic

Zdravka Mihaljevic - Marketplace Manager

Zdravka manages GlobalGiving.co.uk's project leader support and engagement, and helps donors give to projects. Zdravka holds a Bachelor degree in English and Italian language and literature from University of Zagreb, Croatia, and has over 3 years of experience working as a foreign languages teacher. She also holds a Master's degree in European Studies from King's College London and is passionate about education, human rights and international development.

Rachel Smith

Rachel Smith - Head of Programmes

Rachel helped co-found GlobalGiving UK and now heads up the day to day operations and programmes. Before joining GlobalGiving.co.uk, Rachel worked in marketing in the retail sector, and for local government. She holds an MA from Cardiff University in Archaeology and worked as a freelance research archaeologist specialising in later prehistoric Britain. She has been involved in the voluntary sector, particularly fundraising, from a very young age - she organised her first fundraising event (a local coffee morning) aged 7!