Board

Role

The Board is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of HAP including budgeting, membership applications and management of the Executive. The Board normally meets twice a year - in April to review the HAP Annual Report and Audit, and in October to review the budget for the following financial year. Special meetings are convened at the request of members of the Board or the Secretariat as required.

Once the minutes of the Board meetings have been approved they are made publicly available on our website. Read past minutes of the Board.

Composition

The Board comprises a maximum of twelve members. Two thirds represent agencies that are Full Members of HAP and the remaining one third are independent. HAP’s constitution further requires that at least two Board members be drawn from beneficiary communities. The Executive Director of HAP is an ex officio member of the Board.

Current Board members

As of May 2011, the HAP Board is composed of the following members:

Executive Officers:

Chair: Matthew Carter, Humanitarian Director, CAFOD
Vice-chair: Lisa Henry, Humanitarian Response Director, DanChurchAid
Treasurer: Rein Paulsen, Quality, Strategy and Humanitarian Policy Director, World Vision International

Board Members:

Anabel Cruz, Communication and Development Institute, Uruguay (Independent)
Elisabeth Ferris, Senior Fellow Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution Washington, DC (Independent)
Jemilah Mahmood, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Humanitarian Futures at Kings College London and at KRIS in Malaysia. (Independent)
Esther Mujawayo-Keiner, Founder member of AVEGA (Independent)
Reza Chowdhury, Director, COAST Trust
Matthew Frost, Chief Executive Officer, Tearfund
Manu Gupta, Director, SEEDS, India
Jonathan Mitchell, Emergency Director, CARE International
Zainab Raza, Deputy Director, CWS Pakistan/Afghanistan, Pakistan