The Team
We are so proud to have the most amazing team in the UK, USA, Uganda and Nepal, as well as a wide network of donors, trustees, partners and advisors.
Our Network
Our Partners
We don't set up new organisations in the countries that we work in. We partner with locally run, locally staffed NGOs who help us manage Hello World projects.
Imagine Her
Uganda
Uganda
Tech4All
Nepal
Nepal
Friends & Collaborators
Raeshib Aggerwhil
Abu Augustine
Gift Augustine
Drew Edwards
Marcus Exall
Senka Filipovi
Joanna Henderson
Abu Augustine
Gift Augustine
Drew Edwards
Marcus Exall
Senka Filipovi
Joanna Henderson
Monika Hubbard
Justin Keena
Steve McCauley
Sugata Mitra
Anna Southgate
Bina Patel
Justin Keena
Steve McCauley
Sugata Mitra
Anna Southgate
Bina Patel
Judith Mueller
Surina Narula
Sundar Raman
Matt Roeser
Tom Saater
Steve Schinnerer
Surina Narula
Sundar Raman
Matt Roeser
Tom Saater
Steve Schinnerer
Individual Donors
Jonathan Asante
Stephen Dawson
Marcus Exall
Marek Gumienny
Andrew Fisher
Stephen Dawson
Marcus Exall
Marek Gumienny
Andrew Fisher
Sophie Kelly
Abdul Koroma
Lane Merrifield
Anhad Narula
Anna Southgate
Abdul Koroma
Lane Merrifield
Anhad Narula
Anna Southgate
Matt Roser
Roger Ross
John Spiers
Rupert Pybus
Roger Ross
John Spiers
Rupert Pybus
Foundations
Lessons for Life Foundation
Schroder Foundation
Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Souter Charitable Trust
Southall Trust
Knickerbockerglory TV
Renovering AS
Mc Cann
Schroder Foundation
Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Souter Charitable Trust
Southall Trust
Knickerbockerglory TV
Renovering AS
Mc Cann
CAF Canada
St James's Place Wealth-Management
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. UK Aid Direct
Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity
Texel Foundation
Jephcott Charitable Trust
Goldman Sachs
Charity Futures
St James's Place Wealth-Management
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. UK Aid Direct
Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity
Texel Foundation
Jephcott Charitable Trust
Goldman Sachs
Charity Futures
Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
Didymus
PLR Trust
Merck Family Trust
Brian Mercer Trust
Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust
RCRT
Hub Games
Didymus
PLR Trust
Merck Family Trust
Brian Mercer Trust
Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust
RCRT
Hub Games
Awards and Prizes
HP Prize for Advancing Digital Equity
UK Trustees and USA Board Members
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Andrew Kimball
Trustee
Andrew is treasurer of Hello World and has kept its books for about seven years. He was Executive Vice President of Moody’s Investors Corporation until retiring in 2012. He and wife Kathryn live in New York City.

Tom Adams
Trustee
Tom is a co-founder of 60 Decibels. Tom has held various leadership roles across the public, private and charitable sectors. Immediately before 60dB Tom was the Chief Impact Officer at Acumen, and prior to that worked in Ethiopia and Nigeria for the Department for International Development. Tom has also worked for the Foreign Office, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and Credit Suisse. He holds a Masters degree (distinction) in Development Economics from SOAS.

Frances Baawuah
Trustee
Dr Frances Baawuah (MBChB MRCP MRCGP DFSRH PGMedEd) is a General Practitioner with over 15 years of clinical experience. Frances has shown leadership qualities since being awarded Head Girl at School. She continues to use these skills in her clinical work, and also as Partner of a 19,000 patient inner-city London Practice. She has recently been appointed as the clinical lead for her local Covid Response unit, as well as the Covid Schools surveillance study with Public Health England.

Marcus Exall
Trustee
Marcus has been involved in Hello World since before the first hub was built. He has worked in the digital industry for the last 23 years, cutting his teeth just prior to the early days of the dotcom boom after an early career in sales and marketing in the UK & Japan. He built his own digital marketing business until its acquisition in 2011 and is an angel investor in, and advisor to, early-stage UK and international businesses.

Ceinwen McMillan
Trustee
BA (hons) and MA in English literature - formerly an academic speech-writer and currently a freelance editor. Ceinwen grew up in Australia and now lives in the UK. She believes that with Covid, the need for the Hello Hub vision of self-taught learning and digital access is more critical than ever and she is committed to the work of Hello World.

Jonathan Stadlen
Trustee
Jonathan is an award-winning television producer, who set up an independent production company Knickerbockerglory in 2011, with the aim of being the first production company to share its profits with staff and freelancers, and giving to charity. In the last three years they have produced more documentary hours than any other company in the UK. In 2017 Knickerbockerglory were voted the best place to work in TV.

Laura Harnett
Trustee
Laura is a former strategy consultant (Deloitte, Booz) and retail director (Kingfisher, Selfridges). She is now an advisor, angel investor and founder of a sustainable cleaning brand (Seep). She loves working on all things digital and customer-centred, particularly when working with organisations with a strong purpose. Perhaps most importantly of all she is a mother of two and believes passionately in Hello World’s mission of closing the gap in access to education.

Liz Smith
USA Board Member
Co-Founder & Chief Executive of EYElliance, Liz has spent the last 12 years working in international development. After 5 years with the UN Office of South-South Cooperation, Liz joined VisionSpring as Director of Business Development where she and Founder Jordan Kassalow explored collaboration to provide access to eyeglasses on a global scale. Liz is a graduate of the University of Vermont, a member of the Explorers Club, and two-time National Geographic Society grant recipient for her work documenting endangered song.

Liz McEnaney
USA Board Member
Liz has over fifteen years’ experience in historic preservation, urban design, and non-profit leadership. She has worked with community-based collaborators in locations ranging from New York City to New Delhi, India to Maputo, Mozambique. She is a co-founder of the urban design collaborative Design For. Previously, she served as Executive Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation. Liz is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Anna Southgate
USA Board Member
As an award-winning Writer-Director and Co-Founder of VR company, moVRshaker productions, Anna’s expertise lies in storytelling. Since 2016 she has also been Creative Director of ‘The Conversation’ - an annual live event hosted by Dame Emma Thompson in aid of the Helen Bamber Foundation, a charity that supports the survivors of trafficking and torture. She has created content for Human Rights advocacy across all media, and worked with both BAFTA and Oscar-winning talent as well as the National Youth Theatre (UK). In 2020 she scripted a BBC4 Radio Appeal which was made on Hello World’s behalf by actor, author and broadcaster, Stephen Fry.
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