Age International is governed by a Board of Trustees who are committed to making the world a better place for older people.
Ann Keeling is Chair of the Age International Board.
Ann Keeling's 40 year career in global health and social development has included posts in Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Caribbean, Belgium, USA and her home country, UK. She held the post of Head of Gender Equality Policy with the UK Government and was previously a Senior Fellow of Women in Global Health. Ann Keeling has been CEO of two global health NGOs, was UNFPA Country Representative Pakistan and Director Commonwealth Secretariat leading on Health, Education and Gender. Between 2008 and 2012 she was Chief Executive Officer of the International Diabetes Federation, founded the NCD (Non Communicable Diseases) Alliance and as Chair, led the successful campaign for the 2011 UN High Level Summit on NCDs. Ann Keeling spent 9 years in Pakistan with the British Council, DFID and UNDP working on human development and women’s rights. She also held senior posts with the Governments of Papua New Guinea, and Pakistan. She studied at Oxford University UK, Ann Arbor University USA, and in 1981, at the People’s University in Beijing, China.
Andrew is a not-for-profit leader, fundraising development and communications specialist with over 30 years’ experience of working in international development, humanitarian agencies and health charities.
Currently working as Executive Director for Income and Conservation Investment at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), he is a member of the Executive Board and responsible for maximising income to protect and restore nature through various channels such as individual giving, commercial operations, partnerships and conservation investment. Andrew has previously served as Head of Private Partnerships and Fundraising at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. Before this, he worked at WaterAid for fourteen years, including as UK Deputy Chief Executive and globally as International Director of Communications and Fundraising. He supported establishing WaterAid America as its first Executive Director, and supported the foundation and development of WaterAid in Australia and Sweden.
Andrew's previous non-executive roles have included trusteeships at Malaria No More UK and Depaul UK. He was also Chair of the International Fundraising Congress. He holds a BSc in Sociology, an MSc in Management Studies and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing.
Karl has over twenty years’ experience working in international development managing organisations and developing programmes, both in the UK and in sub-Saharan Africa. He is currently CEO at Able Child, a UK charity working for children with disabilities in Africa, a role he has been in since 2008. Karl was also founder and trustee of Uganda Creates, a small charity providing recreational, educational and training opportunities to young people from disadvantaged communities in Uganda, which ran for 15 years.
Karl has two undergraduate degrees, a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Development and an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy.
Charlotte has spent over 35 years in the humanitarian sector, including as Director of Communication and Information Management and Director of Digital Transformation and Data at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2010 to 2020, as well as deputy Director of Communication, deputy Head of Policy and Movement Relations, Head of Women and War Project, as well as a number of positions in ICRC delegations including Croatia, Tajikistan, Kenya, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. She also previously worked at the British Red Cross. Charlotte was Chief Public Policy Officer and Chief Communication Officer at the CyberPeace Institute from May 2021 to November 2024. She is currently consulting International Organizations and NGOs on detecting and combating disinformation, strategic communication and digital transformation. She is also co-CEO of a start up, Neutrality, which is developing secure by design technology for critical sector organizations, including International Organizations.
Charlotte is an experienced senior executive in communications, digitalization of organizations, cyber/tech policy and diplomacy, multilateral engagement, data and digital risk, as well as in security and crisis management. Charlotte holds an MSc in Communication Management and a BA in Business Studies and has studied both Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation. She authored Women facing War: a study on the impact of armed conflict on women (2001) as well as a number of other publications.
Prasannajeet is an entrepreneur building a venture in digital therapeutics for mental health care. His deeply rooted interest in the digital healthcare space stems from his own experiences of tackling anxiety and neurodegenerative disorders, and building an award-winning digital intervention during his two-year stint as a data science researcher.
Prasannajeet takes a strong interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), regulation, and policy, and has been invited to various government, public, and private forums and roundtable discussions to contribute on topics including Regulation in AI, UK-India Free Trade Agreement, and Mental Health at the Workplace.
Prasannajeet is recognised as an ‘Emerging Leader in Digital Technology’ by the UK Government and has also been selected as an Ambassador for One Young World, a global forum for young leaders, for his contributions to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Prasannajeet is a graduate of London Business School and Indian Institute of Technology. He has two publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals: Nature and British Medical Journal.
Kate has twenty years’ experience in humanitarian and development organisations, and has lived and worked on the African continent since 2007. Currently Kate is the International Rescue Committee’s Regional Vice President for the Great Lakes, supporting Burundi, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Tanzania. Previously she worked in West Africa, including as Country Director in Mali. Between 2003 and 2013, Kate held a variety of leadership roles with Save the Children in South Sudan, DRC and Cote d’Ivoire, having begun her humanitarian work in protection services with refugee and asylum seeking children in the UK. Kate’s professional life has focused on contributing to the realization of rights of women and children living in conflict and post conflict contexts, and she is particularly interested in how ageing intersects with other identities in those contexts.
Kate tries to practice feminist, anti-racist and inclusive leadership, and is committed to understanding and disrupting unequal power dynamics which challenge the realization of social justice. She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Sussex and an MSc in Global Development Management from the Open University. Kate and her young son enjoy exploring new places and learning about the world together.
Roy has spent the last two decades focused on digital transformation in healthcare across Europe, North America and Asia. His interest lies in the collaboration of government, academia, charities and providers in the adoption of innovative technologies in health and care settings. He has a focus on the issues of older people nationally, as a Trustee of Age UK nationally, and locally, as a Trustee of Age UK Bath & North East Somerset.
Roy is the Chief Executive of Healthinnova, a global healthcare consultancy. He is a Non-Executive Director at the University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. He also sits on the Public Health Research committee at the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Roy’s past experience includes leadership roles in GE Healthcare, Microsoft, the World Health Organisation, Epic and Telstra. He holds degrees in mathematics, computer science, health economics and international health policy.
Jolene Skordis is a Professor of Economics, specialising in health and development. She is Vice-Dean (International and Advancement) for UCL’s Faculty of Population Health Sciences, Head of the Department of Environment and Community Health, Chair of the European Global Health Research Institutes Network, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Work and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. She is a regular advisor to the WHO, World Bank and the Global Fund. She works primarily within randomised trials of complex public health interventions, with research programmes spanning fiscal space for sustainable and scalable health service delivery, anti-poverty programmes, gender empowerment, social networks to support behaviour change and the promotion of health equity. Her work has directly influenced government policy in a range of countries.
Clare is currently Chief Operating Officer at the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, where she was Interim CEO and Strategy Director between 2016-2017. Clare has over 20 years' experience in the charity and public sectors in a variety of senior international strategy, planning and management roles.
Prior to the Cherie Blair Foundation she was Director of Strategy, People and Performance at the Brooke international charity for working horses and donkeys. She has also worked for the Fairtrade Foundation, Partners for Water and Sanitation and the Environment Agency where she set up their first international programme.
She is also the Co-Founder and Chair of Equality Starts at Home charity which aims to improve the gender balance in unpaid care.
Clare has lived and worked in Africa and Asia including presenting a radio programme in Ghana. She has a broad cross-sectoral understanding of issues related to international development including gender, trade, water, sanitation and environmental sustainability.
She has a BA Hons in International Relations from Sussex University and an MSc in Information Systems from Brighton University.
Michèle Boden has been appointed as Age International’s first Board Apprentice, an opportunity that is allowing her to develop governance and leadership skills under the mentorship of an assigned Trustee. Currently a Senior Consultant at Clarity Consulting Associates, Michèle specialises in health and care consultancy, working with the NHS and the healthcare sector in the Middle East. She is also actively involved with the British Society of Gerontology’s Ageing, Business, and Society Special Interest Group, where she fosters collaboration between gerontology, business, and civil society to promote independent and meaningful ageing throughout life.
Previously, she played a key role at the tech start-up Age Care Technologies, focused on enhancing older adults' lives through innovative digital solutions. She led research projects aligned with the WHO’s ICOPE framework, collaborating with universities, research institutes, and healthcare systems worldwide to better understand the needs of older populations. Michèle also spent two years at Age International, providing governance and administrative support to the CEO and Board of Trustees. This experience introduced her to international development and the humanitarian sector.
Michèle holds a degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Global Cooperation and Security from the University of Birmingham. Passionate about older people’s health and rights, Michèle is dedicated to creating a world where older people are viewed as an asset rather than a burden, and healthy ageing is considered a priority.
