CHS Alliance Board Elections
Call for nominations is now closed
More information about the General Assembly and the voting for Board elections will soon be available on this page.
Reminder: full members must have paid their 2022 membership fees to be entitled to vote. If you have questions regarding your payment status, please contact us at ga@chsalliance.org.
Note the virtual General Assembly vote to elect new Board members will be held from 20 to 28 September.
The Governing Board
Please find below the current composition of the Board. Each individual Board member’s term of office will last three years, renewable once. The Board is supported by three Standing Committees: i) Membership and Nominations Committee; ii) Finance, Risk and Audit Committee; and, iii) Complaints Committee. Find below the minutes of previous Board Meetings.
Lola Gostelow (Chair)
Shama Mall (Vice-Chair)
Deputy Regional Director, Programs & Organizational Development, Community World Service Asia (CWSA)
Sarah Pelicaric
HR Advisor Team Leader at CAFOD
John E. Beverley (Treasurer, independent)
Coleen Heemskerk
International Director of Strategic Planning, Act Church of Sweden
Michael Moriarty
Head of Business Partnering & Strategic Finance at Plan International
Rehema Kajungu
Deputy Country Director, TPO Uganda
Allan Calma
Global Humanitarian Coordinator, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
Yegana Guliyeva (independent)
IDP / Humanitarian / Freelance Consultant
Jacqueline Koster
Deputy Director, Disaster Response & Preparedness, World Renew
Hana Abul Husn
Global Planning Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, War Child Holland
Susan Otieno
Executive Director, ActionAid International Kenya
Mohamed Zahid Almasri (independent)
Director of International Coordination and Missions, Physicians Across Continents
Marina Skuric Prodanovic
Chief, System-wide Approaches and Practices Section, Coordination Division, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Michael Barnett (independent)
University Professor, George Washington University
Meg Sattler (independent)
Director, Ground Truth Solutions
Secretariat
The CHS Alliance Secretariat facilitates and promotes cooperation and coordination between the members. The Secretariat is managed by the Executive Director who is appointed by the Governing Board.
The General Assembly
The General Assembly (GA) of members is the Alliance’s supreme authority. The quorum for the General Assembly is 40 percent of the voting membership of the CHS Alliance. In between assemblies, the Governing Board is authorised to carry out all acts that further the purposes of the Alliance. Find below the minutes of previous General Assemblies.