Trustees & Advisory Boards

If you're interested in joining our advisory or youth boards, please email [email protected].

Will Grant-Brook
Our Middle East and peacebuilding guide

William is a Research Assistant at Prospect Peace Limited, working in the field of peacebuilding and conflict prevention. He specialises in countries in the Middle East, including Iraq. He also has worked with the International Crisis Group, as a consultant, and in research. William studied at the University of Sheffield, obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in History, and then at the SOAS University of London, earning a MSc in Middle East Politics.

Rich Grahame
Our charity sector expert

Rich is a co-founder and Chief Executive of Settle, a homelessness charity that supports vulnerable young people moving into their first home. The charity helps with the transition of young people in the UK moving away from temporary housing, teaching them practical skills. He has won the Shackleton Leadership Award. Rich studied at Bayes Business School and the University of Nottingham, he also is a Social Innovation Fellow at Year Here. He has worked with developing Trading Up, a project designed to help young homeless people develop working skills.

Helen McCord
Our Education expert

Helen is a Lecturer at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. The Centre offers fully funded; research informed professional development for secondary school teachers to support them when teaching the Holocaust to young people. With over 20 years’ experience in education, Helen’s previous roles have included secondary history and Politics teacher, initial teacher educator, school governor and board member for a schools based initial teacher education provider.

Raahim Zafar

Community Advisory Board

Academic Advisory Board

We are pleased to have the following educators and community leaders advising Solutions Not Sides:

Ben Abram

Raghib Ali

Philip Brooks

Ashfaque Chowdhury – Association of Muslim Schools UK

Kelly Jacobson Collins

Peggy Forell – Advocality

Alex Goldberg – Jewish Chaplain, University of Surrey

Cameron Howes

Ed Kessler – The Woolf Institute, Cambridge

Lauren Keiles

John Lyndon - Executive Director of ALLMEP

David Mason - Muswell Hill Orthodox Synagogue

Jonny Newton - Community Security Trust

Esmond Rosen

Jeremy Rosenberg

Nathan Servi - Head of Education, Maccabi GB; Head of Streetwise and Stand Up!

Sajeela Shah – Secondary School Teacher

Bruce Thompson – the Methodist Church, Lincolnshire

Ifza Tindal

Greg Rack