Our Global Board

Charlotte Eaton is currently the Chief People Officer at OVO Energy, leading the People team and all aspects of the People agenda. Prior to OVO Energy, Charlotte was at Arm, Kraft Heinz and Barclays. Charlotte has performed a variety of roles over this time with significant experience in business partnering and people leadership.

Amisa Rashid

Amisa is the Founder and Executive Director of Nivishe Foundation whose main objective is building community resilience using Trauma-informed resilience programs for peaceful social cohesion for individuals in informal settlements and from marginalized communities in Kenya. She is also a 2020 IPHRD (International Peace and Human Rights Development) Africa Fellow as a young woman Mediator Ambassador. Amisa serves several boards as well as a youth adviser in different organizations both locally and globally. Due to her exhibited passion for community empowerment and Mental Health she has won several accolades and recognition including the 2021 African female youth of the year award, the 2019 Zuri awards under the Healthcare Category, the prestigious Award recognises and celebrates exceptionally women in Kenya doing exceptional work in their communities. Amisa is also a public policy and Governance enthusiast as well as YALI alumni.

Edleen John FCIPD is a multi-award-winning Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging & Culture Expert & Consultant.  She is a British-born Sierra Leonean, who grew up in South-East London after moving back to the UK as a toddler. After completing her studies at Cambridge University, Edleen started her career as an Investment Banker at Lehman Brothers and has held a variety of revenue-generating and support-function roles across the Financial Services sector including Insurance Broking at Lloyd’s of London, Graduate Recruitment at Nomura, Vice President at Morgan Stanley and as a Director and the Co-Head of Inclusion, Diversity and Social Equality at KPMG. Aside from her day job, Edleen has dedicated her personal time to driving for change in society and is a School Governor at a community special school for young people with severe and profound disabilities, a Director of Tech Talent Charter and sits on the Inclusion Advisory Board of the FA.

Diwakar Uprety, 18, is a youth activist from Nepal, currently working as the campaign coordinator at Youth Advocacy Nepal (YAN). Born in Janakpurdham of Nepal, Uprety grew up as a child rights activist advocating for the rights and voices of children. In the past, he held a number of campaigns to end child marriage, child labourr and domestic violence against children. Moreover, he campaigned through the child club to promote Child-Friendly Governance in local bodies of the government. Academically, Uprety is pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology since he believes that gaining knowledge on this academic discipline gives the understanding of society and how things around it work.

Hannah is Commercial Director at the Energy Systems Catapult, a not-for-profit whose mission is to innovate in the energy sector, driving our national and international decarbonisation agenda and promoting clean growth. Hannah has public and private sector experience, having worked as a senior civil servant in the UK and a senior associate at a multinational law firm, Linklaters LLP. Before starting her career, Hannah worked for Restless Development (SPW, as it was then called), as a youth volunteer on a community resource programme in rural Uganda.

Mafipe holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University and an LLB from the Zambian Open University.  He is a registered Chartered Accountant Zambia and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.  He has 15 years of post-qualification experience gained at KPMG where he is an Associate Director.

Passionate about youth led activism, Mafipe was a Member Restless Development Zambia Board for six years, three of those as Chairperson.  He has also served as a Trustee of the United World Colleges Zambia Scholarship committee for four years and is currently a member of the Board of LiveWell Zambia, a social enterprise that aims to improve access to healthcare products. A 2017 TEDx Lusaka speaker and former moderator at the World Export Development Forum (among others), Mafipe is an experienced facilitator of economic discussions around trade and investment in the context of the North-South divide.

Jenny is a Communications Officer for the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome. She has previously worked for The Climate Coalition and Christian Aid on campaign delivery and global communications. Her first experience with Restless was as a team leader on an ICS project in Uganda in 2016. She has also volunteered in Nicaragua with Raleigh International and spent 2 years in France teaching English and setting up an Adult Learning Centre in the Dunkirk refugee camp. Jenny has a BA in Human Geography from the University of Liverpool.

Isabella is Joint-CEO of Here for Good, a legal charity she co-founded in February 2018 to provide free immigration advice to European citizens and their family members post-Brexit. She also works as an asylum and human rights lawyer for the charity Safe Passage, which reunites unaccompanied children and young asylum-seekers with their family members in the UK. Isabella is on the Forbes 30 under 30 2020 list for Social Entrepreneurship in Europe. 

Isabella trained as a solicitor at Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP, an immigration and asylum law firm. She holds a BSc in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Graduate Diploma in Law and Masters of Law in Legal Practice (LLM LPC) from BPP Law School. 

Tom is currently the Global Engagement Director on the SMT of Greenpeace International, where he’s worked since 2015. Based out of London, as an activist, he’s tried shutting down power stations, helped introduce craftivism to Phnom Penh, bounced around in rhibs, and co-organised protests with people from every continent in all sorts of unusual places! He formally and informally supports a handful of organisations with campaigns and mobilisation strategy, experience which he brings to Restless.

Paul is a senior leader with over 20 years experience in the international development sector that has encompassed work with the UK government, the UN and NGOs. More than half of that time has been spent living and working overseas – in Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe. Before joining Crown Agents two years ago, Paul worked at the Department for International Development (DFID) in a variety of senior policy and operational roles, which included acting as Lead Policy Adviser to the UK Prime Minister when he chaired a UN High-Level Panel tasked with developing the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Framework.

Lucinda is a chartered management accountant with experience working on international financial planning and analysis across both the commercial and public sectors. She currently leads the budgeting and forecasting processes for the Legal Aid Agency within the Ministry of Justice. Lucinda has a MSci in Systems Biology from Homerton College, Cambridge and has recently completed MSc in Development Management with the Open University, focusing on the inclusion of disabled people in small businesses across the UK. In her free time, Lucinda volunteers with the refugee education charity Love to Learn and spends time cycling or growing vegetables on her allotment.

Oyindamola Johnson

With over 10 years of experience leading and working on social impact projects across the globe, Oyindamola is passionate about raising ethical leaders to drive innovation and development in communities. Passionate about empowering young people, Oyindamola was named the African Youth Hero in 2015 by the African Union Commission, awarded as of the 100 Brightest Young Minds in Africa, and chosen as an Atlas Corps Fellow in 2016.

In 2018, he was named Young Global Changer by Global Solutions Initiative, Germany, and in 2019 he was named a Salzburg Fellow. Oyindamola is an Alumni of the American Express Leadership Academy. He is the author of the book: “Elevate Your Game: The Ultimate Guide To Help You Gain Clarity, Make Local Impact and Grow Global Influence”. He is also the Founder and Convener of Elevate Your Game, a network that connects emerging leaders and young professionals across Africa and the rest of the world to tools, resources, platforms, and communities of practice through which they can amplify their impact and catalyze change