Nachula Wilson is a strategic partnerships and operations professional with extensive experience in Africa. She currently serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Ashesi University in Ghana, where she leads efforts to cultivate relationships and secure funding from major donors, foundations, and corporate partners across Africa.

Prior to this, Nachula held leadership roles at the African Leadership University in Rwanda and Mauritius, overseeing academic operations and program development. Nachula also consults with organisations, providing advisory services on strategy development, fundraising, and education management. She has also held board roles, most recently as Treasurer for Accra's Lycee Français.

Nachula holds an MBA from IESE Business School and is an alumna of the Social Finance Programme at Oxford Said Business School. Her expertise spans participatory project planning, financial analysis, fundraising, governance, and leadership development. With a deep appreciation for Africa's development challenges from working across the continent, Nachula is passionate about turning those challenges into opportunities and uses her work for this effort.

Dr. Kyaw Moe Tun completed his undergraduate education at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Oxford University then received his PhD in Chemistry at Yale University. The transformative liberal arts and sciences education he received abroad challenged him to find deeper meaning behind his actions, informing his ensuing work.

He returned to Myanmar in 2014 to dedicate his life to developing his native country. As a young social entrepreneur with a dedicated mission to create the next generation of responsible and competent leaders, he believes that empowering the youth is the most rewarding investment a country can make to safeguard its sustainable future.

He believes liberal arts and sciences education has the transformative power to develop the innovative, adaptable leaders needed to address fast-changing global socio-political trends and industrial disruptions.

With this mission in mind, Kyaw Moe Tun established the Parami Institute in early 2017, providing high-quality, innovative liberal education programs to young Myanmar graduates who want to take on challenges facing their country. He raised millions of dollars from local and international philanthropists to transform the institute into a private, non-profit, residential, degree-granting university to create next-generation leaders for Myanmar – a plan curtailed by the military coup in 2021.

To meet the growing educational needs of a country in crisis, he quickly pivoted to incorporate Parami University as a private, non-profit, synchronous online university licensed by the Higher Education Licensure Commission, Washington D.C. offering Associate and Bachelor degree programs since 2022 to students in Myanmar and other areas under authoritarian control.

Lilian Mabonga is a seasoned Development Specialist with over 15 years of diverse experience across engineering, agriculture, green energy, and currently specialising in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) as part of SDG 6 and 13 . She has participated and contributed to SDGs 1 to 5 initiatives over the years. She is driven by a passion for creating sustainable impact in the communities she serves.

Lilian's expertise extends beyond program implementation; she is also a proficient fundraiser, having successfully raised millions of dollars to support vital development projects benefiting communities in Africa. Her commitment to excellence led her to pursue advanced studies, and she is currently a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of South Africa.

With a robust academic background, Lilian holds an MBA in Strategic Management and an MA in Monitoring and Evaluation. Her academic journey complements her practical experience, enhancing her ability to design and manage impactful development programs.

Lilian is distinguished by her project management acumen, holding certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Project Management for Development Professionals (PMD Pro). She has further honed her leadership skills through specialised coursework at Cornell University, including Project Management, Project Leadership, Women in Leadership, and Change Management.

Steve Murigi is a trustee of The Fore, which funds exceptional small charities that are transforming lives and society. Steve is the CEO of WeSeeHope, partners with local NGOs to provide children in East Africa with access to community-led education, child rights and economic empowerment programmes.

With previous roles as CEO at Primary Care International and diverse leadership roles at Amref Health Africa, he has a deep understanding of the complex challenges surrounding charity operations and social enterprise development. With nearly two decades of directly developing strategic partnerships, Steve has facilitated effective collaborations with major partners including GSK, the Guardian, and Barclays.

His work spans multiple countries and continents, reflecting a deep commitment to decolonising and localising international development and advancing trust-based philanthropy. Steve's extensive experience in managing multi-stakeholder partnerships emphasises his dedication to ethical practices and promoting equitable healthcare access worldwide.

Respecting local knowledge and cultural contexts, Steve’s initiatives set high standards for the delivery of training and resources in challenging environments. His leadership continues to drive forward a legacy of community-centred change.

Emily Monville Oro is the Acting Asia Regional Director and concurrent Philippines Country Director of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR). She provides strategic direction and oversees implementation of its key programs focusing on strengthening local Food Systems for food and nutrition security, Economic Empowerment, especially of women, conserving environment and Biodiversity for climate and disaster resilience, improving local Health care delivery system, Education and Global Learning.

Emily has 33 years of work experience mostly in Asia, leading conduct of development action research, managing community development programs, and designing capacity building activities and learning events in the region.  She finished her Master’s in Public Health and has been co-lead investigator of various research projects including many relating to Upscaling Integrated School Nutrition Program in the Philippines, and the recently concluded regional research project on Climate Smart Villages as Platforms for Resilience Building, Women Empowerment, Equity, and Sustainable Food Systems in Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines.

She is actively involved in the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN) being a staunch advocate for Health and Nutrition, and is currently the Senior Regional Adviser for Asia of the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network. She believes that trust-based giving builds strong organisations and sustainable development programs.

Jess has worked in the social Impact space for over 20 years,designing equity-centred social change programs in the UK as well as humanitarian relief programs.

She has worked with the Fundraising Radicals on several different projects. Currently, she works at Global Fund for Children, a global nonprofit dedicated to finding, funding, and coaching truly local organizations that uplift young people worldwide. 

Jess is also the founder of Design for Social Impact Lab, a social enterprise dedicated to supporting organisations design equity-centred programs, policies, research and learning. 

Design for Social Impact has worked with dozens of grassroots organisations as well as the British Red Cross, National Lottery Fund, Association of Charitable Foundations, the Stephen Lawerence Foundation, Plan International and Save the Children. In 2024, Design for Social Impact launched Its first global learning program, bring together participants from over 15 countries to explore equity-centred approaches to research design for social impact.

Jess lives in London, in the UK.

Craig is the founder of Fundraising Radicals and has spent three decades helping nonprofits around the globe figure out how to fund their impact. He has worked with civil society visionaries in over 100 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America and designed many strategies and pathways that have led to funding:

• That enables a nonprofit owned by indigenous forest communities to collaborate and protect 250,000 more hectares of primary rainforest in Papua New Guinea.

• That is transforming child and maternal health in The Gambia through West Africa’s first social enterprise hospital.

• That made the UK’s landscapes more accessible through Northumberland National Park’s The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre.

• That bolsters critical thinking and intellectual resistance within Myanmar, by building the country’s first liberal arts and sciences university.

• For a place to explore global Palestinian identity and resistance in the West Bank’s incredible and important Palestinian Museum.

• That supports brilliant medical researchers in Africa and breaks down the barriers to funding, through the Africa Research Excellence Fund.

• That drives better healthcare and training through the Royal College of Physicians northern hub in Liverpool’s iconic and nature-inspired The Spine building.

• That protects academic freedom by supporting persecuted academics and their families, and those in conflict zones via partnerships brokered by the Council for At-Risk Academics.

For Craig it’s always about much more than raising big chunks of cash, he believes deeply that why funding is needed, and how funding is raised, matter most. Funding is powerful, it amplifies and accelerates, which means Craig is careful about the causes he works with.

So, he has spent much of the last six years using his big-white-man-elbows to create and fund the learning space that has evolved into altFUND. This challenges traditional ideas of what funding knowledge and expertise really matter and where everyone can share more relevant experiences of regional partnership-building in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania.

Before becoming a self-proclaimed fundraising radical (is it really radical to prioritise humanity, planet, and justice?) Craig started out teaching maths in Nigeria with VSO, then put on a suit to crunch numbers at KPMG. But the nonprofit world kept calling, and he found his sweet spot blending finance, people, organisational change, and social impact.

These days, when he's not designing strategies and organisational pathways to funding, or training people and teams around the world, you might find him paddle boarding, hiking, or surfing. Oh, and Craig's got the academic chops too - a first degree in maths, chartered accountancy credentials, and a master's in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS.

What really makes Craig tick is his belief that meaningful change happens when you get the fundamentals right and the deep work done - purpose, values, people, and culture - funding is downstream from these. It's probably why he's won awards for transforming fundraising programmes, and for innovation in fundraising, and why organisations keep asking him to guide them and to join their boards.