Charlotte Seymore Smith

Charlotte Seymour Smith "studied social anthropology at the London School of Economics. She did fieldwork in the Amazon region and was awarded a PhD in 1982. She is the author of the Macmillan Dictionary of Anthropology and she has worked with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Mozambique, Brussels, Delhi and London.

"She was the lead UK negotiator for the Cotonou Convention which covers aid and trade relations between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of countries and then head of trade policy in DFID in the run-up to the Doha Development Round of trade talks in the World Trade Organisation. After heading the DFID programme in India from 2003-4, she was director for Asia in DFID until 2007. She joined the board in November 2007."


 * Trustee, Christian Aid