Nick Durrant
Board member, OneWorld UK
After several years in Silicon Valley, developing group, collaboration environment, and social software, Nick Durrant returned to the UK to bring interaction design strategy to Metadesign, Icon MediaLab and Futurebrand Digital. Client work includes Bristol Legible City , Netaid UN/Cisco, Lastminute.com and Peoplecom. Bristol Legible City is widely held up as a best-practise example in urban design. His design research projects include ‘The bubble engine – Issue Network Mapping’ at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. Nick has been a Visiting Professor to Innocence/Interbrand, an 'Agent Provocateur' for Orange, and is an ongoing Mentor for the Design Council's Humanising Technology project.
Larry Kirkman
Chair and Founder, OneWorld US
Larry Kirkman launched the US-based center of the OneWorld Network in 2000, and chaired the OneWorld International Foundation from 2002-2006. He has been Dean of the School of Communication at American University since 2001, where he directs academic and professional programs in Journalism, Film and Media Arts, Public Communication and International Media. He has established centers for innovation in public service media, including Center for Social Media, Investigative Reporting Workshop, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and Center for Environmental Filmmaking, and partnerships and programs with many media organizations. His work has included public television documentaries and public service advertising campaigns. He created the American Film Institute's National Video Festival in 1981 and produced the Benton Foundation's Advocacy Video Conference in 1993.
Mike Yates
Chair, OneWorld UK
Mike is an independent consultant who works with charities and social enterprises. After an MBA from London Business School, Mike spent 20 years in consulting and research at Accenture. Half that time was in the offices of the International Chairman and the Chief Executive, working and speaking on global social responsibility initiatives in IT, Finance and Health. He supported UN, G8 and World Economic Forum task forces. He also ran Accenture input for a training programme for Tony Blair's ministerial team. As an independent consultant, Mike has clients ranging from international civil society to UK social care charities and sector associations. When he's not with OWUK or his clients, Mike likes nothing better than wallowing in a trench, digging up Roman ruins as an amateur archaeologist.
Jennifer Pryce
Treasurer, OneWorld US
Jennifer Pryce oversees the management and growth of Calvert Foundation’s domestic investments, including its social enterprise portfolio, investments in community development finance institutions, affordable housing development, and initiatives around transit-oriented development and green communities, as well as managing the Foundation’s strategic initiatives. Previously she worked with a range of non-profit and commercial financial institutions. Her wide interests drew her to being a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon and later to working at the Public Theater in New York City. She is a board member of Institute for Educational Leadership as well as of OneWorld US.
Anuradha Vittachi
Board member, OneWorld UK and OneWorld US
Anuradha Vittachi fled her native Sri Lanka aged 13, after her journalist family was subjected to political persecution for exposing human rights abuses. This attempt to silence truth-telling journalists reinforced her lifelong conviction in the centrality of responsible media for responsible governance. She is an internationally-published writer, an award-winning TV documentary-maker and co-founder of OneWorld, the world’s first portal on human rights and sustainable development (1995). Anuradha was the UK’s civil society delegate to the G8’s taskforce on closing the global digital divide, and a LSE ‘global civil society pioneer’. She founded OneWorld Radio, OneClimate and OneWorld UK.
Jeffrey Allen
Board member, OneWorld US
As well as being a board member of OneWorld US, Jeff backstops OneWorld UK's Mobile4Good projects in Nigeria, Senegal, and Morocco and works to develop new initiatives. Before joining the Mobile4Good team, he managed OneWorld's global justice news service in the United States. He has supported the communications and Web teams for political campaigns and UN agencies. Jeff was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar and has since lived, worked, or travelled in 15 African countries.
Judy Ugonna, OBE
Board member, OneWorld UK
Judy Ugonna’s specialist area is information, libraries and customer services. At the British Council, she was Deputy Director Information Services Management, and also worked internationally for many years, for example as Regional Information Coordinator for South Asia. In 2005, Judy was awarded the OBE (The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for her professional work. Now retired, Judy helps run a range of local community arts events and programmes, from the Wirral Open Studio Tour 2010 and the Wirral.
Peter Armstrong
Board member, OneWorld UK
Peter Armstrong is a global pioneer in interactive media. In 2004, the British Academy for Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded him a platinum Lifetime Achievement Award -its highest accolade for his work in interactive multimedia. As a documentary-maker at the BBC, he founded award-winning series on global values, including Everyman and Global Report. In 1983 he initiated the Domesday Project, the world’s first user-generated multimedia initiative, involving a million citizens. He co-founded OneWorld, where he pioneered OneWorld TV, the Open Knowledge Network and Mobile4Good, a range of mobile phone-based services empowering the poorest communities in Africa and India.
Roshani Kothari
Board member, OneWorld US
Roshani Kothari joined the OneWorld United States board in 2009, having been a member of the OWUS team since January 2001 working with OneWorld NGO partner organizations. She is currently working as a Program Manager at the International Women's Media Foundation based in Washington, DC. In her spare time, she enjoys vegetable gardening, traveling and taking photos and sharing them in her online gallery Global Mosaics.
Rosemary O'Mahoney
Board member, OneWorld UK
Rosemary O’Mahony joined Accenture in 1978 from the Irish Department of Finance in Dublin, and was a partner for 18 years. She led Accenture’s global technology team in Chicago for a decade before moving to France. Rosemary has been a managing partner working with clients in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, focusing on technical architectures and in realising the business benefits of emerging technologies. She has also led the training of over 5,000 Accenture consultants and served on several global advisory committees. On her retirement in 2006, Rosemary returned to London to focus on charitable activities, including the Prince’s Youth Business International and OneWorld.
Linda Leonard
Board member, OneWorld US
Linda Leonard joined the OneWorld United States board in 2004. As a librarian who specializes in international development and health issues, she has worked in many countries with many organizations and development professionals. She focused on digital divide issues while at the Center for Communication Programs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University and at the Academy for Educational Development. As Team Leader for End User Applications for the Leland Initiative, a Presidential initiative led by Vice President Al Gore, she was tasked with developing and implementing a program to introduce the Word Wide Web to Sub Saharan Africa.
