Ken Caldwell, Trustee, Oxfam GB

Ken Caldwell joined the Oxfam GB Board in 2016 and has been Chair of the Oxfam GB Programme Committee since 2019. He is also one of our Honorary Officers.

He has held a wide variety of leadership roles in international non-profit organisations, both in executive and non-executive roles.

His executive leadership roles include serving as Executive Director of WaterAid International, as International Programmes Director at Save the Children, and as Deputy Director of VSO. He has also led a research and consulting practice working with leading global international NGO federations on issues of strategy, governance, and programme effectiveness. In his earlier career he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co.

In his non-executive roles, he is currently the Chair of BRAC UK and a member of the BRAC Global Board and is also a Board member of Farm Africa. His past non-executive roles include serving as a Board member of the Institute of Development Studies, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the Children's Society, the National Centre for Social Research, and the UK Roundtable on Sustainable Development. He was also the founding Chair of BOND.