At our upcoming conference, we will be hosting a session asking our panel of experts three burning questions facing the global sustainable development sector, as chosen by our community. We’ll be closing submissions at 12pm on Tuesday 3rd September.
Once we’ve gathered all the suggestions, we’ll host a live poll at the conference where all attendees can vote on which three questions will be posed to our speakers, and we’ll be ready to go!
Meet our panel of fantastic leaders who will be tackling these questions:
Othman Moqbel
CEO of Action for Humanity
Othman Moqbel is a British Palestinian with over 25 years of experience in the humanitarian sector. He is currently the CEO of Action for Humanity, parent charity of Syria Relief, with humanitarian activities in more than a dozen fragile and conflict affected settings around the world, including Gaza, Syria, and Yemen.
Under Othman’s guidance, the charity has grown from a single-context response, to now supporting 10 programme recipients every minute, and championing the voices of those impacted by catastrophe on the global stage.
He currently serves as a member of the board for BOND, and has previously served as a board member of both ACEVO and Charity Futures.
Nancy Kankam Kusi
Coordinator of the RINGO project
Nancy Kankam Kusi, co-ordinator of the RINGO project, reimagining the role of INGOs with experience in international development, development research and knowledge management. Currently, she is the Programme Officer of Knowledge Management at the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI). At WACSI, she is leading in curating, documenting, packaging and sharing learnings and knowledge on civil society to facilitate growth in the civil society ecosystem.
Nancy also leads a diverse team of civil society actors to initiate and implement international development programs that promote community philanthropy, shifting power and resources to the grassroots, localising and decolonising development initiatives in the global south. She is the idea career for the Decolonising Advisory Community.
Frances Guy
CEO of Scotland's International Development Alliance
Frances has been the CEO of Scotland’s International Development Alliance since 2021. She was born and educated in Scotland, Italy, and Canada before embarking on an international career that has taken her principally to the Horn of Africa and the Arabic speaking world, including Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen. Frances worked for Christian Aid between 2014 – 2017 as head of their Middle East team based in London. Most recently she was gender team leader for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) regional office in the Arab states. She was Representative for UNWomen in Iraq from May 2012 to December 2014 and before that she had a long career in the British Diplomatic Service during which she served as British Ambassador to Lebanon (2006 -2011) and to Yemen (2001 -2004).
We can’t wait to see all the challenging questions that come in from the community, and hear what the panel have to say!