Our Team
Richard Curtis
Co-founder
Gail Gallie
Co-founder
Kate Garvey
Co-founder
Piers Bradford
Managing Director
Alison Bellwood
Executive Director, World’s Largest Lesson
Alice Macdonald
Policy and Campaigns Director
Francesca Wilski
Partnerships Director
Hannah Cameron
Creative Director
Jon Hales
Climate and Business Director
Michael Davis
Finance Director
Polly Mallinson
Content Director
Rachel Waldron
Events Director
WE VALUE… PROGRESS FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET, WITH NOBODY LEFT BEHIND
Esther Kissiedu
Senior Social Media Manager
Kinvara Jardine Paterson
Director, World's Largest Lesson
Johanna Schmidt
Senior Partnerships Manager
Lily Brown
Exec Producer for Goalkeepers
Sophie Fraser
Senior Project Manager
Claudia Kool
Office Manager
Eddy Day-Clarke
Project Manager
Jack Davies
Senior Manager, World’s Largest Lesson
Sarah Kadouch-Chevalier
Climate Campaigns Manager
Ally Winter-Taylor
Producer
WE VALUE….. CREATIVITY TO MAKE AUDACIOUS THINGS POSSIBLE
Emmyline Duffy
Producer
Kath Spring
PA
Lydia Paynter
Communications and Campaigns Manager
Premela Kala
Social Media Executive
Imogen Fairbairn
Partnerships Manager, Business & Climate
Eliot McFarlane
Assistant Producer
Kenji Maghoma
Assistant Producer
Noreen Kassam
Programme Coordinator
Nour Alswaid
Programme Coordinator
Richard Curtis
Co-founderRichard Curtis is a Film and TV writer and director. He is the Co-Founder of Comic Relief UK, a charity that has raised £1.5 billion for projects in the UK and internationally. In 2015, Comic Relief went to the USA – to date it’s raised over $300 million to help children around the world. Richard was a founding member of Make Poverty History & worked both on that and Live 8. In 2015 he co-founded Project Everyone, with an aim to make the UN’s SDG’s famous & effective. He is now a UN Advocate for the SDGs. In 2019 he co-founded Make My Money Matter.
Gail Gallie
Co-founderGail started her career working for advertising agencies, before taking a role in marketing at the BBC where, over an 8 year period, she led the marketing of Radio 1, BBC News, Sport, CBeebies and BBC Three. As a consultant Gail worked to relaunch non-profit brands such as Children in Need, The Camden Roundhouse and Sports Relief. In 2010 Gail was appointed CEO of the ad agency Fallon, part of the Publicis Group. After Co-Founding Project Everyone, Gail had a spell as CEO of the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation. In 2019 she launched Project 17, a consultancy alongside her non-profit work helping the private sector orient their purpose around the Global Goals.
Kate Garvey
Co-founderKate is a Co-Founder of Project Everyone and guides our strategic communications and global campaigns. Prior to Project Everyone, her clients and campaigns have included; the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; Product (RED); Live Earth; The Global Fund; UNHCR; the Maternal Mortality campaign; Make Poverty History and the Live 8 concerts. Her career began in politics where, from 1997 until 2005, she worked for Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street in the Prime Minister's Private Office and played an integral role in 3 successful election victories. Kate was also a director at Freud Communications and is an Alumna of the Young Global Leaders.
Piers Bradford
Managing DirectorPiers is the Managing Director of Project Everyone, tasked with leading the organisation and making it the best possible place to work. He has been with PE since the start, originally joining to set up a pop-up radio station focusing on the Goals which was carried in over 75 countries around the world. Prior to this, Piers was part of the BBC Radio 1 leadership team – where he launched Radio 1’s channel in iPlayer, the Live Lounge album and a series of award winning social action campaigns and documentaries.
Alison Bellwood
Executive Director, World’s Largest LessonAlison is a creative communications expert with a specific focus on children and education. She has worked extensively with some of the world’s most recognised brands (PepsiCo, Unilever, Nestlé). In 2014 Alison joined Project Everyone to create the World’s Largest Lesson which aims to build a generation of young Global Goals “champions”, taking action to make the world a better place for everyone. Working alongside founding partner UNICEF and many others, our World’s Largest Lesson team develops creative tools for learning and engages millions of children in over 120 countries in its annually themed learning experiences.
Alice Macdonald
Policy and Campaigns DirectorAlice not only leads Project Everyone’s campaigns and policy work, but also builds partnerships with organisations around the world - from the United Nations to civil society. She was previously Head of Campaigns and Advocacy at Save the Children where she ran one of the biggest global coalition campaigns ever focussed on the SDGs. She has worked around the world including as an adviser in Rwanda, South Africa and Ethiopia. She began her career at the British Labour Party and is currently a Councillor and Cabinet Member for Equalities, Neighbourhoods and Leisure in Southwark.
Francesca Wilski
Partnerships DirectorFran previously worked in broadcast journalism working at the BBC, Sky News and ITN before moving into marketing where she led global campaigns at some of London’s biggest advertising agencies. Since joining Project Everyone in 2015 she has managed the relationships with our sponsors and partners including Aviva, Google, Getty Images, Pearson, Unilever and UN partner agencies. Fran is also the Creative Director on Goalkeepers, a multi-platform campaign founded in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which uses powerful stories and data to bring together a new generation of leaders to support the SDGs.
Hannah Cameron
Creative DirectorAs the Creative Director at Project Everyone, Hannah works in collaboration with creators, activists, artists and technologists to produce striking content and campaigns for the Goals. Her work for PE has included devising and delivering the #DizzyGoals, #WhatIReallyReallyWant, #FreedomForGirls, #DearWorldLeaders, #WorldsToDoList and #VoicesForChange campaigns as well as exec producing Goalkeepers for the Gates Foundation from 2017 – 2019. Hannah has brought new and unusual suspects to understand and champion the Goals – from George the Poet and Beyoncé to Patrisse Cullors to Tarana Burke. She believes strongly there is more that unites us than divides us and also believes she has the best job in the world!
Jon Hales
Climate and Business DirectorJon leads our Business Avengers campaign, bringing together some of the largest and most influential companies in the world to drive awareness and accelerate progress from the corporate sector towards the Global Goals. Jon also works with our creative team and partners to develop campaigns which influence action and behaviour change around the climate crisis. Before joining Project Everyone, Jon was Director of Strategic Partnerships for Climate Action, where his focus was on creating public-private partnerships to accelerate the low carbon transition. Jon is also the author of two children’s books, inspired by his time teaching English abroad.
Michael Davis
Finance DirectorMichael is Project Everyone’s Finance Director and is responsible for our overall financial strategy. Working part time, he is your contact for all contractual and financial transactions across all our output as he manages our cashflow and supports all our teams to deliver fantastic output as competitively and efficiently as possible. Michael brings a wealth of experience to Project Everyone with a long and successful history of working in broadcasting and the charity sector, including the BBC, BAFTA and the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation. Currently, Michael divides his working week between Project Everyone and the mental health charity Network For Africa.
Polly Mallinson
Content DirectorPolly works alongside Richard Curtis overseeing all of Project Everyone’s films for campaigns with our partners, including Global Citizen, the Gates Foundation and the United Nations. Polly's background is in public policy and she has 15 years of production experience. Previously she was a producer for Oscar winning director Jonathan Demme and at Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's production company, Playtone. She began her career at the European Commission in Brussels and then Indonesia helping to develop and implement EU strategy with ASEAN. She has a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Rachel Waldron
Events DirectorRachel is an events specialist, creating and delivering large scale events on a global scale with social purpose at their heart. Rachel was the founder and producer of The Big Egg Hunt, a public art event which ran in cities across the world, winning multiple awards and raising more than £3 million for charity. At Project Everyone, Rachel has created and managed key creative moments: including an installation of 193 snowmen at the World Economic Forum and raising 17 flags around the world. Rachel’s most recent production was Forest for Change, a forest in the courtyard of Somerset House with an installation of the Goals at its core.
Esther Kissiedu
Senior Social Media ManagerEsther has over 13 years’ experience in media relations and digital communication, working with prominent broadcast media and publishing brands such as Financial Times and MTV. She joined Project Everyone in April 2020 as the Senior Social Media Manager; leading on strategic development on the Global Goals’ social and digital channels.
Kinvara Jardine Paterson
Director, World's Largest LessonKinvara believes in the power of education as one of the best ways to achieve the Global Goals. She started her career as a teacher through the Teach First programme in London. As a Director for World’s Largest Lesson (WLL) Kinvara brings creative resources for learning about the Global Goals to life. She recently produced WLL Live, an inaugural YouTube show to inspire youth action for the Goals, featuring UN leaders and popular teen personalities like Millie Bobby Brown. Kinvara works alongside UNICEF to continue to expand the programme which has now reached over 15 million young people.
Johanna Schmidt
Senior Partnerships ManagerAs Senior Partnerships Manager, Johanna oversees all aspects of Project Everyone’s partnership with Google. This not only involves working with Google but also closely liaising with the UN and most internal teams. Prior to joining Project Everyone, she worked at Cancer Research UK managing a number of large-scale partnerships, most recently leading on all Stand Up To Cancer partnerships. Before joining the charity sector, Johanna worked agency-side in international advertising and marketing on big campaigns for clients, like Oreo, Milka, Cadbury, Philadelphia and many more, for a number of years.
Lily Brown
Exec Producer for GoalkeepersLily is the Exec Producer for Goalkeepers, focussing on the power of music and storytelling to convey the messages of the Global Goals. Lily worked for two years as PE co-founder Richard Curtis’ Creative Producer before joining the PE team in 2019. In her time here she has worked predominantly as a producer on Goalkeepers with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as working with the World’s Largest Lesson team UNICEF, to produce the WLL Live, an online education YouTube show and producing the events at Forest For Change at the London Design Biennale.
Sophie Fraser
Senior Project ManagerSophie spent several years studying and working abroad in Spain and Cuba before returning to the UK in 2011 to work as a Strategic Communications Planner on advertising campaigns for the likes of Mars, Nestlé and Oxfam, amongst others. In 2017 Sophie joined Project Everyone to work as a Project Manager on the inaugural Goalkeepers event with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since then, Sophie has worked on several other Goalkeepers events as well as various dinners and receptions in Davos and virtual events for Cannes Lions Live.
Claudia Kool
Office ManagerClaudia is the Office Manager at Project Everyone, she’s in charge of the day to day running of our office (and remote working) and works to make sure it is as functional and fun a place to work as possible. She looks after utilities, insurance, H&S, our database - and everything in between, she also assists our Finance Director. As well as looking after the office, Claudia looks after the people too! She works with HR, deals with recruitment and staff training and is a qualified MHFA. Claudia also organises all our social events.
Eddy Day-Clarke
Project ManagerIn her role as Project Manager, Eddy is currently working on the Goalkeepers Campaign with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously at Project Everyone she supported Kate, Piers and the senior management team, including working on the Nations United broadcast in partnership with the UN, and the Forest for Change at Somerset House. Before Joining Project Everyone, Eddy was the Executive Assistant to the British High Commissioner in Uganda and before that, worked in Marketing and Fundraising in the NGO sector.
Jack Davies
Senior Manager, World’s Largest LessonJack is the Senior Manager for the World’s Largest Lesson team where he manages Generation Earthshot, in partnership with The Earthshot Prize and The Royal Foundation. Before joining Project Everyone Jack studied Politics and Philosophy and spent 7 years working on education projects in Bristol, Manchester and London – from national teacher training programmes to coaching football to 3 year olds! He is an ambassador for TeachSDGs and UNLEASH Innovation Labs, and a UNITE 2030 Youth Delegate.
Sarah Kadouch-Chevalier
Climate Campaigns ManagerSarah is Project Everyone’s climate campaigns manager. Since joining in 2018, she has worked with a range of partners in the climate, nature and ocean space, helping develop and deliver advocacy campaigns and creative content. Sarah produces and curates high-level events at key moments and works closely with our partner, Freuds, on Goals House. She also leads Fashion Avengers, a new collective of leading fashion forces committed to accelerate action towards the Goals. With a background in environmental geopolitics and law, Sarah started her career working for a London-based charity that mobilises the arts and culture to take action on the climate crisis.
Ally Winter-Taylor
ProducerAlly is a Producer at Project Everyone where she works with a range of partners including Google.Org, UN Agencies, Expo and the Gates Foundation to produce content, campaigns and events for the Global Goals. Before this Ally spent 3 years at the Walt Disney Company in their Social Responsibility team working on cause-related marketing campaigns and events for Disney’s charity partners across Europe, Middle East and Africa in line with Disney’s film and product releases. This sparked her passion for using creativity and storytelling to engage and inspire audiences into having a positive impact on the world.
Emmyline Duffy
ProducerEmmyline is an assistant producer who has been at Project Everyone since 2017. While being involved in a wide variety of projects, her main role is managing the Goalkeepers Award programme which identifies, highlights and rewards young activists from around the world on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Emmyline leads on the project management of this process working with the nomination partners, the judges and communicating closely with the winners themselves.
Kath Spring
PAKath Spring is PA to Gail Gallie one of the co-founders of Project Everyone and Kath has been at Project Everyone since the very start in 2014. Kath is the go-to person for anything Gail, and Kath knows Gail inside out as she has been her PA for over 20 years! Prior to working with Gail, Kath was the PA to the manager of heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
Lydia Paynter
Communications and Campaigns ManagerSince joining Project Everyone in 2019, Lydia has worked on Goalkeepers with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with a particular focus on growing and highlighting the inspiring leaders who make up the Goalkeepers community. Lydia has also worked on communications and campaigns across several teams at Project Everyone, including Dear World Leaders, Forest For Change, World’s To Do List and 16 Days of Activism. She is passionate about finding the people and stories who will bring about the changes needed to achieve the Global Goals.
Premela Kala
Social Media ExecutivePremela is a Social Media Executive at Project Everyone, where she helps manage all the content that is published across the Global Goals social platforms. She can usually be found writing copy, coordinating content with the wider team or interacting with the Global Goals community. Premela also spends time brainstorming fun and interesting ways to spread the message of the Global Goals to as many people as possible.
Imogen Fairbairn
Partnerships Manager, Business & ClimateImogen supports the business and climate team at Project Everyone. Since joining the team, Imogen has worked across private sector and climate partnerships, with a focus on both business and fashion avenger campaigns. She also supports the team with high level activations and events at key moments, such as the UN General Assembly and COP26. Imogen has held previous positions at ArtTable at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), managing public art programmes in New York. Prior to joining Project Everyone, Imogen completed a Masters at LSE and conducted research on cultural institutional communications and media policy.
Eliot McFarlane
Assistant ProducerEliot is an assistant producer at Project Everyone, working in the creative team to help deliver the Global Goals Cities campaign in the lead up to the UN General Assembly in September. Focusing on the role cities play in achieving change, the campaign aims to localise the Global Goals and demonstrate how local action can lead to global change. Previously, Eliot worked in film promotion, producing websites and digital campaigns for clients including Universal, Netflix and Disney. His background lies in digital production, copywriting and project management.
Kenji Maghoma
Assistant ProducerKenji Maghoma is an assistant producer working on the community experience for Goalkeepers as well as supporting on projects for the Business Avengers network. She has held previous roles at NBCUniversal in innovation, strategy, and production, and has an MPA from UCL's School of Public Policy. Outside of her role, she serves as a trustee for Theatre Troupe, using participatory theatre to empower young people and inspire change, and also uses her passion for music as a DJ to inspire positive change.
Noreen Kassam
Programme CoordinatorNoreen joined the World’s Largest Lesson as programme coordinator. Within this role, she builds and manages relationships with educators, NGOs, and delivery partners across the world to roll-out exciting and impactful learning programmes. Prior to this, she was an events manager supporting the international education community in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Originally from Burundi, Noreen is passionate about creating equal opportunities and removing barriers to education for every single child in the world, as she believes that education is the key to a better, brighter and more sustainable future.
Nour Alswaid
Programme CoordinatorNour is the Campaigns Executive for the World’s Largest Lesson team. She supports the day to day running of World’s Largest Lesson by liaising with partners and monitoring communications with them and managing the creation of learning resources alongside the Senior Campaign Manager. Nour has over seven years’ experience in the humanitarian sector and has worked with many organisations, including UNICEF and Mercy Corps. Before joining Project Everyone’s team Nour did an MA degree in Conflict, Security, and Development at University of Sussex. Nour is positive that education is your faithful ally to create the change and make the SDGs a reality.
