Corinne Davey - Director

Corinne joined the Keeping Children Safe Coalition in March 2010. Corinne has worked in international development since 2000, primarily within the Human Resources field initially with Plan International in Asia and then with EveryChild in the UK. It was during her time with EveryChild that Corinne led on child protection and joined the Coalition as a member agency representative. Since 2008, Corinne has worked on independently on various initiatives related to child protection.

Alexander Dressler - Consultancy Manager

Alex has 22 years experience in international development in more than 30 countries. More recently he was the CEO of the Consortium for Street Children, a KCS member. As a regional delegate for the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Alex developed a participatory community development programme to help vulnerable Roma communities in Central and Eastern Europe. Alex has carried out child rights and child protection workshops for police in Guatemala and Ethiopia. In Tanzania he has helped the government to develop a national strategy for vulnerable children. Prior to working in international development, Alex was an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. 

Sally Warren - Communications and Advocacy Manager

Sally joined Keeping Children Safe in May 2011 having previously worked for 12 years at the international development charity WaterAid. Sally has extensive experience in advocacy and communications having led six successful campaigns to improve access to water and sanitation in Africa and Asia. In 2007 Sally managed the inception of the End Water Poverty coalition campaign which now has over 150 members across the globe.

Maryam Eshani - HR Administrator 

Maryam has worked in international development since April 2010. She started working part time in the human resources department with EveryChild in the UK and then joined Keeping Children Safe in August 2010. During her time at  Keeping Children Safe she realised she had a lot of interest in safeguarding and child protection within international organisations. Maryam is currently planning to start a part time MA in International Child Studies to develop her skills within this field.  

Our trustees

Chair – Marjorie James

Marjorie joined the Keeping Children Safe Coalition in December 2008 and was elected chair in January 2009. Marjorie is currently the Director of Corporate Services with EveryChild where together the other members of the Senior Management Team she is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the organisation. Her role involves heading up the Human Resource and IT functions along with strategic leadership for child protection and participation.

Christine Ash-Buechner-Trustee

Christine Ash-Buechner has lived and worked in the North Caucasus, the Balkans, Europe, South Asia, and Africa. Today, she is a CP Advisor for World Vision International supporting programs in the Middle East, South Caucasus, and Eastern Europe. Christine has wide experience in strengthening Child Safe Organisation structures in conflict, transition, and development settings.

Mariama Deschamps- Trustee

Mariama joined Keeping Children Safe Coalition in 2007. Mariama is currently the Global Child Protection Advisor for Plan International and as such is the organisation’s representative on the Coalition. Mariama’s role at Plan involves developing and leading on Child Protection Policy initiatives which ensures the safety of children that the organisation, it staff and associates comes contact with directly and indirectly.

Sonja Eugen - Trustee

Sonja joined Keeping Children Safe Coalition in September 2006 and supported the work of the Coalition as its secretary from 2007 to 2009. Sonja is currently the Child Protection Advisor for SOS Children's Villages International leading the development of the organisation's Global Child Protection Policy and related guidelines and procedures. Sonja developed specific child protection trainings for co-workers and representatives of the organisation. The last year, she lived and worked in Africa supporting the member associations of SOS Children's Villages in Africa and Middle East directly in rolling-out the SOS Code of Conduct and by delivering workshops to increase awareness on Child Protection and implementing complaints mechanisms for child participants in the SOS programme.

Aneeta Kulasegaran - Trustee

She joined the Coalition in June, 2007 when she began her role with Tearfund as their global Child Development Advisor. With her law and social care background, Aneeta brings 18 years of experience of advocating for and supporting vulnerable children across the globe, including building the capacity of faith-based organisations, communities and professionals in child protection.

Richard Powell - Trustee

Richard joined the Keeping Children Safe Coalition in September 2005. Richard is currently the Director of Global Child Safeguarding for Save the Children UK and leads on this policy for Save the Children International. He has a background in Child Protection and Children's Rights.

Sandra Noronha - Trustee

After many years spent working in the private, national and charity sectors, Sandra joined the Keeping Children Safe Coalition in December 2008 and was elected as Secretary in January 2009. Sandra has several years experience in event planning, coordination of conferences, managing cost effectiveness against budgets and the overall running of the organisational administrative costs. Sandra is currently the Human Resources and Office Manager whose role through effective communication is to continue to endorse ChildHope's commitment to fair and lawful treatment of all staff and volunteers and to provide support through effective management of the IT structure and office environment. Sandra has been with ChildHope since October 2005.

Jane Travis - Trustee

Jane has been involved with the Keeping Children Safe Coalition since 2007 as a member agency representative for Viva. Before working with Viva, Jane worked for 6 years for the British Council and then 10 years in international relief and development. During this time she lived and worked for 5 years in Africa in countries affected by conflict, where child protection was a priority issue. Her current role with Viva includes the development of a quality improvement system to enable organisations working with children to improve the quality of their work in 6 key areas, one of which is child protection.

Barbara Wilson – Trustee

Barbara joined the Keeping Children Safe coalition in September 2010. She has recently retired as Director for Organisation Development and People and member of the Corporate Leadership Team in CAFOD – the Catholic overseas aid agency. While there she was the Child Protection Officer and introduced a range of improved policies and procedures. Prior to that she was a senior civil servant in Wales working on various policies, including 4 years as Head of Personnel where she had responsibility for Child Protection matters as well as supporting the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales.