Sam Clarke
Chairman of the Board

Sam is currently a founder and chair of Stop Climate Chaos: the coalition of NGOs supporting action on climate change, a trustee of Employment for the Disabled and a director of the Oxford-based disability support organisation Able Types Ltd. Sam is also chair of the Ethical Property Foundation. He is a trustee of the local Wildlife trust (BBOWT), of Fair Pensions: a charity campaigning for more ethical use of pensions funds' investments, and is a recent chair of Friends of the Earth. He is also a director of Network for Social Change a grant giving foundation.
Sam spent 14 years at Oxfam headquarters, the last four as fundraising director. He left to take a Cranfield Business School MBA and to write the Complete Fundraising Handbook. He then became director of Oxfordshire Mind. After two years he moved to become General Secretary of World University Service, working with refugees. He also served on the Board of the Refugee Council from 1992-1997, as treasurer of the Jubilee 2000 Coalition from 1999-2001 and as chair of Drop the Debt in 2001.
Sam has a special interest in our environmental performance, governance and social auditing.
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