The Governing Board

 

At the 4th General Assembly on 29 September 2022, CHS Alliance members elected four new and three returning board members. They are: Coleen Heemskerk, Kajungu Rehema, Shahid Ali, Carly Sheehan, Eoin Wrenn, Yegana Guliyeva and Gloria Soma. They join and rejoin CHS Alliance’s 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)

Lola Gostelow (Chair)

Shama Mall (Vice-Chair)

Shama Mall (Vice-Chair)

Deputy Regional Director, Programs & Organizational Development, Community World Service Asia (CWSA)

Michael Moriarty (Treasurer)

Michael Moriarty (Treasurer)

Head of Business Partnering & Strategic Finance at Plan International

Shahid Ali

Shahid Ali

Fast Rural Development Program

Michael Barnett (independent)

Michael Barnett (independent)

University Professor, George Washington University

Allan Calma

Allan Calma

Global Humanitarian Coordinator, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)

Yegana Guliyeva (independent)

Yegana Guliyeva (independent)

IDP / Humanitarian / Freelance Consultant

Coleen Heemskerk

Coleen Heemskerk

International Director of Strategic Planning, Act Church of Sweden

Rehema Kajungu

Rehema Kajungu

Deputy Country Director, TPO Uganda​

Susan Otieno

Susan Otieno

Executive Director, ActionAid International Kenya

Sarah Pelicaric

Sarah Pelicaric

HR Advisor Team Leader at CAFOD

Meg Sattler (independent)

Meg Sattler (independent)

Director, Ground Truth Solutions

Marina Skuric Prodanovic

Marina Skuric Prodanovic

Chief, System-wide Approaches and Practices Section, Coordination Division, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Carly Sheehan

Carly Sheehan

Oxfam

Gloria Soma (independent)

Gloria Soma (independent)

Eoin Wrenn

Eoin Wrenn

Trocaire

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.

2022 ANNUAL REPORT