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The Governing Board
Please find below the current composition of the Board. Each individual Board member’s term of office will last three years, renewable once. The Board is supported by four Standing Committees: i) Membership and Nominations Committee; ii) Finance, Risk and Audit Committee; iii) People and Culture Committee, and iv) Complaints Committee. Find below the minutes of previous Board Meetings.
Lola Gostelow (Chair)
Shama Mall (Vice-Chair)
Deputy Regional Director, Programs & Organizational Development, Community World Service Asia (CWSA)
Michael Moriarty (Treasurer)
Head of Business Partnering & Strategic Finance at Plan International
Michael Barnett (independent)
University Professor, George Washington University
Allan Calma
Global Humanitarian Coordinator, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
Yegana Guliyeva (independent)
IDP / Humanitarian / Freelance Consultant
Coleen Heemskerk
International Director of Strategic Planning, Act Church of Sweden
Rehema Kajungu
Deputy Country Director, TPO Uganda
Susan Otieno
Executive Director, ActionAid International Kenya
Sarah Pelicaric
HR Advisor Team Leader at CAFOD
Meg Sattler (independent)
Director, Ground Truth Solutions
Marina Skuric Prodanovic
Chief, System-wide Approaches and Practices Section, Coordination Division, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Carly Sheehan
Oxfam
Gloria Soma (independent)
Board Subcommittee
| Finance, Risk and Audit Committee (FRAC) |
| Michael Wickham Moriarty (Committee Chair and Board member) |
| Susan Otieno (Board member) |
| Coleen Heemskerk (Board member) |
| Lola Gostelow (Board member) |
| Nancy Ette (non-board member) – ACT Alliance |
| Pierre Henry Pingeon (non- Board member) – Independent Consultant |
| Membership and Nominations Committee (MNC) |
| Susan Otieno (Committee Chair and Board member) |
| Shama Mall (Board member) |
| Rehema Kajungu (Board member) |
| Yegana Guliyeva (Board member) |
| Carly Sheehan (Board member) |
| Annerose Buche (Non-Board member) – Islamic Relief Deutschland |
| People and Culture Committee |
| Sarah Pelicaric (Committee Chair and Board member) |
| Michael Wickham Moriarty (Board member) |
| Lola Gostelow (Board member) |
| Shama Mall (Board member) |
| John Beverely (Non-Board member) Retired financial accountant |
| Complaints Committee |
| Carly Sheehan (Committee Chair and Board member) |
| Meg Sattler (Board member) |
| Michael Barnett (Board member) |
| Allan Calma (Board member) |
Secretariat
The CHS Alliance Secretariat facilitates and promotes cooperation and coordination between the members. The Secretariat is managed by the Executive Director who is appointed by the Governing Board.
The General Assembly
The General Assembly (GA) of members is the Alliance’s supreme authority. The quorum for the General Assembly is 40 percent of the voting membership of the CHS Alliance. In between assemblies, the Governing Board is authorised to carry out all acts that further the purposes of the Alliance. Find below the minutes of previous General Assemblies.