Our people
FHI 360 UK’s highly-skilled team have experience of solving complex development challenges across a wide range of sectors and organisations – and work together to deliver the strategic, financial and governance solutions that our clients are seeking.
Our staff have worked in major commercial organisations and for grant-makers, donors, and governments. They have been leaders in business and industry and lead international project teams in countries across the world. They bring this experience to better understand local issues and find solutions that combine indigenous knowledge with international best practice from all sectors.
Our core team
Fathi Abdullahi
Fathi currently serves as Management Accountant at FHI 360 UK, supporting the Finance Team in managing the organisation’s operational and transactional activities, ensuring alignment with donor requirements. She has experience delivering budgeting, financial analysis, and management accounts reports that support strategic decision-making. Previously, Fathi contributed to the financial delivery, compliance, and reporting of DESNZ’s £3 billion PSDS grant.
Karin Alexander
Karin is the Governance and Accountability Lead at FHI 360 UK. She brings extensive experience in delivering politically smart and adaptive projects and programmes across a broad range of geographic and thematic areas. Karin excels in supporting teams to change their ways of working, as well as those of their partners and counterparts. An experienced team leader and political economy adviser, she specializes in analysis, the development of adaptive strategic frameworks, and establishing and growing politically smart teams. Karin has a deep understanding of the challenges of governance and public sector reform in complex, fragile, and transitional environments. She is committed to using inclusive approaches to support collaborative action for change that involves marginalized voices and communities, civil society and other non-state actors, as well as private sector entities. Her expertise in Political Economy Analysis (PEA) informs Thinking and Working Politically (TWP), adaptive management, and issue-based programming, upporting decision-making that drives impact while navigating and addressing governance and accountability challenges.
David Bevis
David is FHI 360 UK’s Finance and Operations Director. A chartered accountant with 20 years’ experience, David has worked across the back-office functions of Finance, Project Management and Business Development and brings a wealth of experience of winning and delivering successful projects across a wide range of donors in the International Development sector.
Stephen Brady
Steve is the resident Board Director of FHI 360 UK and also serves a Strategic Advisor providing guidance on strategic and operational management for FHI 360 UK and on positioning FHI 360 UK with new clients, partners and funders. A highly experienced and effective business director with over 30 years international development experience including living and working in key international development markets in Africa, Steve has a proven ability to lead the design and delivery of business growth strategies across a number of economic empowerment and public sector governance sectors. He has worked and travelled extensively in Africa and Asia and was formerly Crown Agents’ Country Director in Nigeria, Uganda and Japan.
Abumere Ejakhegbe
Abumere Ejakhegbe is a skilled and experienced IT professional with almost two decades of expertise. With a passion for problem-solving, he specializes in leveraging people, processes, and technology to drive innovation and address business needs. In his most recent role as Manager, Digital Delivery – Development and Innovations Lead at FHI 360 UK, Abumere has been responsible for the technical ownership, rollout, and support of programmatic solutions, while coordinating stakeholders throughout the project life cycle. He is deeply passionate about developmental and humanitarian missions and continuously seeks to expand his knowledge to address evolving business needs and challenges.
Holly-Jane Howell
Holly-Jane Howell is a senior technical specialist in education and Education Director at FHI 360 UK. She has over 15 years of experience working in over 30 countries, has served as the Head of Education for FCDO Syria, has been embedded as technical assistance within four Governments in low- and middle-income settings, and has served as a team leader for over 10 large-scale programmes. Holly-Jane has experience as a donor, practitioner, and academic, as well as experience working across the humanitarian-development spectrum in a range of conflict affected settings. Her areas of expertise include Team leadership and programme delivery, systems strengthening, the development of teaching and learning materials, leading education strategy and policy development, behaviour change communication, GEDSI, and education in emergencies.
Muhammad Irfan
Muhammad is a Project Officer at FHI 360 UK, working with the organisation since 2022, where he joined as an intern on an undergraduate placement year from the University of Bath. Muhammad has experience both on project management and business development, working with donors including the FCDO and UNESCO, across thematic areas which include governance, healthcare, and education. His work has focused on the regions of East, West, and Sub-Saharan, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Muhammad has an MA in Conflict, Security, and Development from the University of Sussex. Where he conducted a PEA research piece, exploring the UN MINUSMA mission in Mali from 2013 to its termination in 2023. Mapping the social networks and relationship of key political, military, and rebel elite, as explanations to why the UN were unable to successfully implement DDR and SSR programming, and its consequences.
Angie Kikkides
Angie Kikkides is FHI 360 UK’s HR Adviser. She is an MCIPD qualified Senior HR generalist with over 25 years global experience in managing HR functions across professional services, conversant with regulatory and employment trends. She has a proven track record of establishing start up HR functions, implementing best practices across multiple sites and supporting a global workforce.
Tanya Liberhan
Tanya Liberhan is FHI 360 UK’s Health Lead with over 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing health programmes across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the UK. She has worked with governments, the private sector, and donors including FCDO, the Global Fund, USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNFPA and UNICEF. Tanya combines deep field experience and understanding of local health systems with strong business acumen to drive new opportunities, forging partnerships with governments, businesses, and local organisations. She serves as Project Director for FHI 360 UK’s flagship FCDO Health Security Partnership, providing strategic oversight and technical guidance. Previously, she led the Global Fund’s Private Sector Engagement Strategic Initiative, supporting HIV, TB, and Malaria responses in 12 countries, and has delivered technical leadership on major FCDO-funded programmes in Kenya, Nigeria and India. Her expertise includes private sector engagement, innovative finance, public-private partnerships, systems strengthening, sustainability, and programme management.
Charlotte McKee
Charlotte is a Business Development Manager at FHI 360 UK, responsible for identifying and overseeing new opportunities. Prior to joining FHI 360 UK, Charlotte worked at Montenero Consulting, supporting SMEs and academic institutions to develop business development strategies and proposals for a range of donors including the FCDO, WFP, and UNICEF. She also managed and conducted research for programmes funded by the FCDO and UNICEF. Alongside this role, Charlotte worked as a consultant with the WHO on a European Commission-funded project to develop a handbook for ‘stress testing’ health systems (Strengthening Health Systems: A practical Handbook for Resilience Testing). Charlotte has an MA in Conflict, Security, and Development from King’s College London.
Jason Olson
Jason FHI 360 UK’s Technical Director bringing a wide experience in public sector reform, including: centre of government; political economy; legislatures and parliaments; civil society; legal reform; legislative drafting; public financial management; civil service reform; rule of law; security sector reform; and public sector, NGO and CSO capacity building. He has designed and implemented reform programmes and works on both high-level systematic issues and day-to-day procedures. Jason has developed winning technical approaches to several substantial and innovative donor programmes, focusing on both supply-side governance reform, and demand-side accountability and advocacy programmes.
Katie Richmond
Katie is a Senior Programme Manager at FHI 360 UK, managing the start-up of new programmes and providing programme management oversight for FHI 360 UK funded projects. She has twenty years’ experience in programme management, procurement consultancy services and business development. She has a good understanding of the procedures, guidelines, programme objectives and imperatives of development partners, particularly FCDO. Katie has extensive knowledge of multilateral and bilateral donor procurement and national government procedures together with development of best practice procedures, under a number of donor funded programmes. Katie is currently the Senior Programme Manager for both the FCDO funded ASEAN-UK Health Security Partnership and Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria programmes. She has worked and travelled extensively, previously holding roles in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Pakistan and Nigeria.
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal is the Senior Team Leader for the ASEAN-UK Health Security Partnership (HSP) programme at FHI 360, enhancing preparedness for health emergencies, improving equitable access to care, and reducing health impacts from climate change in ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste. Previously, Robert was the Asia Regional Director at Mott MacDonald, managing the Fleming Fund for the Department of Health & Social Care. From 2016 to 2022, he held roles in business and programme development for UK-based INGOs across South and Southeast Asia, reaching up to 1 million people annually through education, health, and economic empowerment programmes.
Image: FHI 360 volunteer Banchi Tadesse, who had to flee her home due to the conflict, measures a child’s arm circumference with a MUAC tape, a tool to identify cases of malnutrition.
Photo credit: Genaye Eshetu for FHI 360
Interested in joining the FHI 360 UK team?
If you have experience of working in the International Development sector and would like to join FHI 360 UK as a consultant or part of the core team, please complete our short application form here.
