Our Dream Big campaign runs until 7 December - click here to donate! BOARD OF TRUSTEES Professor the Lord Trees BVM&S, PhD, DVetMed (hc), DVMS, MRCVS, FMedSci, Hon FRSE - Chair Professor the Lord Trees, Chair Sandy Trees graduated as a veterinary surgeon in 1969 from Edinburgh University. After a research expedition to East Africa he spent a year in mixed general practice then completed a PhD on bovine babesiosis before working in the pharmaceutical industry for Elanco in the Middle-East, North Africa area. In 1980 he was appointed Lecturer in Veterinary Parasitology at the University of Liverpool based in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Appointed Professor of Veterinary Parasitology in 1994, he was Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science from 2001-2008. His research on parasitic diseases of animals and humans, in the UK and in the Tropics has been funded by over £15m of external grants and produced over 150 scientific papers. He retired from the University of Liverpool in 2011 and is an Emeritus Professor. A council member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) from 2000-2015, he was President of the RCVS in 2009-2010. He is Chairman of the Board of the Moredun Research Institute and Veterinary Editor in Chief of the Veterinary Record and In Practice. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2012 Lord Trees was appointed to the Crossbenches through the Appointments Commission and is only the second veterinary surgeon to be appointed to the House of Lords. He served as a member of the House of Lords EU Select Committee and the EU Subcommittee for Energy and Environment from 2014 – 2017. He is currently Co- chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Animal Welfare and Vice-Chair of the APPG on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases. Justine Frain Justine Frain Justine has spent most of her career in large corporations, latterly as Vice President, Corporate Responsibility & Community Partnerships at the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). She has been involved with international development, particularly HIV, malaria and the Neglected Tropical Diseases, for over 25 years. Justine has served as a Board chair and trustee on several charities; she was Chair of Malaria No More UK (2014 to 2019) and Vice-Chair then Chair of Independent Age (2012-2019). She has also been a lay member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace. Peter Dranfield Peter Dranfield Peter joined SCI’s Advisory Board in 2011 after retiring from a 30-year career in the oil and gas industry with BP and BG Group. Peter was responsible for the BG Group’s businesses in Egypt, Trinidad, Oman and Kazakhstan. Based in these countries, he initiated numerous charitable projects to support local communities. Peter has supported the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative in becoming an independent charity and is a Trustee and Director of SCI Foundation. Dr Mwelecele Ntuli Malecela - Observer to the Board of Trustees Dr Mwele Malecela Dr Mwelecele Ntuli Malecela is Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Until her appointment in December 2018, she was Director in the Office of the Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo where she was responsible for providing policy, managerial and diplomatic advice to the Regional Director. Prior to joining WHO in April 2017, Dr Malecela served as the Director General of the National Institute for Medical Research, United Republic of Tanzania – the first woman to occupy this post - and as founding Director of the Tanzania Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programme. She worked for 30 years at the National Institute for Medical Research starting as a junior scientist in the field of lymphatic filariasis, later focusing on immuno-epidemiology of filarial infections and ran successful programmes for lymphatic filariasis patients. Dr Malecela holds a BSc in zoology from the University of Dar es Salaam and an Msc and PhD in parasitology from the University of London (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). She specialized in filarial immunology, specifically on filarial immune evasion mechanisms. She has served on a number of international committees including the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, the Mectizan Expert Committee, the Trachoma Expert Committee and the advisory board of the Initiative on Public/Private Partnerships in Health (IPPPH). Dr Malecela has been involved in a number of philanthropic organizations and has authored several publications in peer reviewed journals. Dr Malecela also chaired the WHO Regional Programme Review Group for NTDs in Africa and was a member of WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Medicine in Need Steering Committee on Innovation, Alliance and Translation Management (MITAM). Jon Gorrie Jon Gorrie Jon worked in professional services culminating as a Director at KPMG. There he led international development work on monitoring, evaluation, value for money and audit with major donors and NGOs, and has experience of development from many countries around the world. He is trustee and chair of the audit committee of an international development charity, Restless Development, focusing on youth leadership and empowerment; and trustee on the executive committee of the British International Studies Association (BISA), a society which develops and promotes the study of international studies, global politics and related subjects through teaching, research and the facilitation of contact between scholars. He is currently studying anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. SIGN UP TO OUR MAILING LIST Follow us: Contact us Jobs Join our mailing list Safeguarding Privacy Policy Media Centre SCI Foundation is recommended by: SCI Foundation is a charity registered in England & Wales SCI Foundation, Edinburgh House, 170 Kennington Lane, London, SE11 5DP | Registered company number 11775313 | Registered charity number 1182166 © SCI Foundation 2021 We’ve placed functionality cookies on your device to help our website run effectively. 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