Build Africa

Build Africa is a "charity working in rural Uganda and Kenya to help young people escape poverty through education and business enterprise."

People
Accessed April 2009:

Senior Management Team

 * Susanne Niedrum - Chief Executive
 * Apollo Gabazira - Country Director Build Africa Uganda
 * George Otiu-Kidenda - Country Director Build Africa Kenya
 * Oliver Kemp - Director of Fundraising and Communications
 * Adrian Stockman - Director of Resources and Accountability
 * Jo Thomas - Director of Programmes

Patrons

 * Dame Diana Rigg
 * Danny Wallace
 * Sir Simon Hornby
 * James Wilby
 * Henry Olonga
 * Michael Nazir-Ali
 * Shiulie Ghosh

Trustees

 * Hugh Morris
 * Phil Vernon
 * Keith Leslie
 * Mark Florman
 * Mel Oley
 * Claire Gillingwater
 * James Shaw-Hamilton
 * Valerie Vaughan-Dick

Ambassadors

 * Mark Florman (Chairman) - Trustee of Build Africa.
 * Tom Attwood - Managing Director of Intermediate Capital Group.
 * Adam Blaker - Director and Co-Founder of Casper Douglas Capital, International Property Development.
 * Greg Clark - Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells and Shadow Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change.
 * Simon Day - Founder & Chairman of Jubilee Ships (UK) Ltd, International Shipping Company.
 * Fabian French - Managing Director and Head of TMT Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Ltd. Governor and member of the Advisory Council at Goodenough College. Founder of French and Co., corporate finance advisory firm.
 * Mark Hamill - Founder and Director of Workload Business Consultants.
 * Caspar Hobbs - CEO and Co-Founder of Mergermarket, Independent Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Intelligence service.
 * Tom Lindsay - Co-founder and partner of Spayne Lindsay & Co Investment Bank.
 * Bolaji Odunsi - Partner of Stirlng Square Capital Partners, Private Equity Firm.
 * Lennart Perlhagen - Financier, Private Equity-Health Care.
 * Andrew Ross - Chief Executive of Cazenove Capital Management.
 * John St. John - Chairman of Equity Capital Markets at Nomura International plc. Non-Executive Director of Afren.
 * Stanislas Yassukovich - Former Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe and Deputy Chairman of ABC International Bank. Currently Chairman Cayzer Continuation PCC Limited.

Contact

 * Web: http://www.build-africa.org