Gerry Rawcliffe

Gerry Rawcliffe is a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group at Fitch Ratings in London. He trained as a Chartered Accountant after studying German literature at the universities of Warwick, Kiel and London.

Gerry has been interested in birds from an early age and this, along with his financial background, got him involved with A Rocha in 1991 when he became Treasurer and subsequently a Trustee, in which capacity he served for several years. This coincided with the time that A Rocha was making its first hesitant steps from a one-centre organisation to the truly international body it is today. On his regular visits to Cruzinha (the A Rocha Portugal Centre) Gerry trained as a bird ringer and has now ringed at several of A Rocha's other projects, in Lebanon, France and the Czech Republic.