Experts

David is an independent consultant based in London, working with charities, companies and the government on the funding and governance of charities and on the promotion of personal philanthropy. He chairs the editorial group of the Philanthropy UK e-newsletter and is also a member of the Social Investment Task Force. He has 25 years experience of senior management positions in charities, the last nine as Chief Executive of the Baring Foundation (1992-1998) and PPP Foundation (1998-2001). He ‘mentors’ the Chief Executives of several national charities and foundations. In addition, David has Trustee and Board member experience with over a dozen organisations, including a University, the Media Trust, the National Foundation for Youth Music and the New Opportunities Fund.

David is a frequent author, speaker and moderator. In all of his work he strives to help organisations strengthen themselves by diversifying the ways they use financial and other resources and by enhancing their standards of governance and management practice. In his work with philanthropists and wealth managers, he seeks to ensure that all the available options are considered to make personal and family philanthropy as effective as possible.

David is advisor to Active Philanthropy and contributes as an author to our guides on effective and efficient giving.

davidcarrington(at)btinternet.com
www.davidcarrington.net

Robert Corell is Senior Policy Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and an Affiliate of the Washington Advisory Group. He recently completed an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Corell is currently actively engaged in research concerned with both climate and global change and with the interface between science and public policy. In this context, he co-chaired an international team that developed approaches to harness science, technology and innovation for sustainable development. Further, he chaired the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). He is the Senior Science Advisor to a Silicon Valley team designing a peer-review approach to the Internet and chairs the Board that has oversight responsibility for this portal-based approach to the web. Prior to January 2000, he was the Assistant Director for Geosciences at the US NSF where he had responsibility for all the Earth-related sciences, as well as chairing the climate and global change programs at NSF. He also chaired the President’s National Science and Technology Council’s Committee for all federal climate and global change programs. He has served as chair and principal U.S. delegate to many international bodies with interests in and responsibilities for global change research programs. Prior to joining the NSF, he was a professor and administrator at the University of New Hampshire.

He received Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at the Case Western Reserve.

global(at)dmv.com

Jutta Freifrau von Falkenhausen has worked as a lawyer in Berlin since 1993. She was for many years part of a large international firm advising on corporate law, international transactions, banking law, compliance and art law. In December 2009 she founded her own practice. She advises both German and international clients on commercial and corporate law, foundation law and art restitution. The umbrella term 'foundation law' encompasses comprehensive advice for donors and companies in the third sector on structuring and implementing their charitable work.

Burkhard is Executive Director of the Berlin Civil Society Center. As head of the Center he provides management, governance and strategy support to large international charities. Burkhard is chair of Save the Children Germany, an organisation he helped create in 2004. For over 23 years Burkhard has been working in senior positions in children’s charities and development organisations, for the last 15 years as CEO of Save the Children, Greenpeace and Terre des Hommes. He has led both Terre des Hommes and Save the Children through a redefinition of purpose, reorganisation and significant growth.  

Burkhard has in-depth understanding of the challenges children are facing world wide and commands extensive experience in providing children with appropriate and sustainable support. Further more he has extensive knowledge in strategy development and management of change. Burkhard has been a board member or chair of national and international charities in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, India, Korea and Japan and has actively participated in a number of major UN conferences. Since 2000 he is one of the NGO contributors to the World Economic Forum.  

Burkhard has lived and worked in Germany, the United Kingdom, Peru, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Papua New Guinea. Besides his mother tongue German he speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Melanesian Pidgin.  

As an author Burkhard is contributing to the guides and reports published by Active Philanthropy.  

burkhard.gnaerig(at)berlin-civil-society-center.org
www.berlin-civil-society-center.org/