International Trustees
The International Trustees are responsible for safeguarding the values that
underlie A Rocha's mission and maintaining the integrity of the A Rocha family.
Rebecca Irvin, Chair
Rebecca Irvin is director of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise and the Rolex
Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, two international philanthropic programmes
of the Rolex watch company in Geneva. She joined Rolex in 1993 to head the Rolex
Awards, a unique corporate programme that supports innovative people and
projects in science, exploration, the environment, cultural heritage and
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Steve Beck
Steve Beck is the Co-founder of
SpringHill Equity Partners, LLC,
a private equity fund manager that provides growth capital and managerial
support to small and medium sized enterprises in Africa and India. From
2002-2007 he served as Executive Vice President and then Chief Executive Officer
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Iris Funk
Iris Funk is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Paris 1
Pantheon-Sorbonne, Institute for the Study of Economic and Social Development,
where she is researching the marginalization of single mothers in North Africa.
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Rodney Green
Rodney was Chief Executive of Leicester City Council from 1996 - 2008, during
which time it won 9 Beacon Council awards for innovation and excellence and
became Britain’s first Environment City, first European Sustainable City and
first major city to win the EU’s Eco-Management and Audit Scheme accreditation.
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Dr Paul Kariya
Dr Paul Kariya is Executive Director of the Independent Power Producers
Association of British Columbia, and continues as an adjunct faculty member at
Trinity Western University. Prior to this, Paul was the Executive Director of
Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF), a
not-for-profit organization dedicated to the protection, conservation and
recovery of Pacific salmon based in Vancouver BC.
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Ian Marlow
Ian runs a tax and accountancy business in South London, working with
individuals and small businesses in the UK and further afield. He has an MBA in
Small Business Administration and a Diploma in Theology.
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Steve Osei-Mensah
Steve is a partner in the UK consulting practice of PwC where he works with
clients on operational, compliance, risk and business change issues. He joined
PwC in 2005 and has worked with clients in Asia, Europe and the US initially in
Financial services and latterly across Industrial products and Life sciences
industries. More
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Prof Sir Ghillean Prance
Prof Sir Ghillean Prance was for eleven years Director of the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, until his retirement in 1999. He trained as a plant taxonomist and
is an expert on the flora of the Amazon rain forests, having led annual
expeditions there over a period of 25 years and collected more than 450
Amazonian plants new to science. More
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