Eduardo Behrentz, Ph.D. de la Universidad de California. Actualmente es consultor independiente. Fué Vicerrector de Desarrollo de la Universidad de los Andes y representante de América Latina en la junta directiva del Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) y vicepresidente de la junta de la University of Andes Foundation at New York. Columnista de la Revista Semana, miembro del consejo superior del Colegio Anglo Colombiano y de la junta directiva del Banco Finandina. Ganador del Premio Nacional de Ingeniería (Órden al Mérito Julio Garavito). Ha dirigido y participado en cerca de un centenar de proyectos de investigación y consultoría especializad. En la Universidad de los Andes se ha desempeñado también como Decano de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Director del Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental y del Grupo de Estudios en Sostenibilidad Urbana y Regional. Ha sido parte del Consejo Mundial de Decanos de Ingeniería, del Consejo Superior de la Asociación Colombiana de Facultades de Ingeniería, del Consejo Ambiental Distrital y de la Academia Panamericana de Ingeniería. Ha sido miembro del consejo asesor del Programa Nacional de Ingeniería de Colciencias y de la junta directiva de la Fundación Tecnnova. Ha sido columnista del diario El Tiempo e Investigador Senior dentro del esquema de reconocimiento de Colciencias. Autor de numerosas publicaciones de la literatura técnica indexada en donde cuenta con un alto número de citaciones.

Angela has worked in professional fundraising for 23 years, both in the UK and the USA in a variety of Director roles in higher education as well as the charity industry including Cass Business School, The University of Chicago, The Royal Society and the Children’s Society. 

In her current role, Angela is a member of the Advancement Senior Management Team at Imperial College London and she oversees the Faculty of Medicine Development programme.

Angela brings to the College the combined experience of running major gifts teams as well as experience of securing gifts and stewarding UK and international donors at the principal gift level.

Francisco resides in Monterrey, Mexico with his wife and four daughters. He is the Associate VP for Development at Tec de Monterrey, the leading private university in Mexico. 
 
He has also held key executive level positions in various profit and non-for-profit organizations over the last 20 years.  Amongst these, from 2012 to 2015 he was Organizational and Talent Development Director at Frisa Industries; from 2010 to 2012 he was Managing Director at Adizes Institute Mexico and from 2007 to 2010, he served as CEO for Hombre Nuevo and Guadalupe Radio in Los Angeles, California.

Francisco earned a Master’s Degree in Political Science and Nonprofit Organizations from the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid, Spain, and an Industrial and Systems Engineering Degree from Tec de Monterrey.  He has several Executive Programs from several institutions such as IESE Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford University. 

He is a certified Adizes Consultant, from the Adizes Institute in Santa Barbara, CA and a Certified Coach from Newfield Consulting. 

In addition to this, he is co-founder and  former President of Comunidar, Monterrey´s first Community Foundation.  Francisco also founded DOXA, an academic and psychopedogogic counseling center, as well as Esfuerzos Unidos, which seeks the integration of people with disabilities in the work place. 

Matt Ferguson joined Warwick in 2018 and is building a culture of philanthropy that will enable the university to triple its philanthropic income in support of the Vice Chancellor’s 2030 strategy. Principal gifts, and the data analytics and donor relations on which they rely, is a central pillar of this strategy. In 2019, Warwick Business School created The Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology thanks to a £3.5 million gift.

Matt was previously at King's College London for 10 years, latterly as Chief Development Officer. He has significant principal gifts experience in Asia: during his time at KCL, he secured the £20 million gift from Hong Kong-based philanthropist Dickson Poon to create the eponymous School of Law at King's; £7 million to create the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy, and Law; and £6 million to create the Lau China Institute. He led the development of the University's Principal Gift Strategy and provided strategic advice to the World questions King's answers campaign board, chaired by the Rt. Hon Sir John Major. He is a Fellow of King’s College London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and a past trustee of the Birmingham Women and Children’s Hospital Charity (2016-19). He began his career in Development at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta.

Nathalie Fontana has held executive management positions in nonprofit organizations for two decades, of which over 15 years as a specialist in higher education fundraising at prestigious institutions in Europe.

On October 1, Nathalie Fontana has re-joined the University of Oxford's Development Office as 'Associate Director Principal Gifts (Europe)'. In this role, she will establish the first Europe-based office by developing and expanding Oxford’s European major donor programmes.

Nathalie already worked for Oxford’s Development Office from 2013-2017, first as Head Development Student Support and then as Head Development Principal Gifts. Other stops in her career include leadership positions at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT Berlin), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

Nathalie has been a volunteer with CASE (Council of Advancement and Support in Education, case.org) for many years, is a board member of the Swiss-American Society (swiss-am.net), the Swiss Friends of Oxford University (oxfordfriends.ch) and a regular speaker at higher education advancement conferences worldwide.

Nathalie holds degrees in business, arts and nonprofit management, and fundraising.

According to the Universities Act, the Chancellor is in charge of promoting science and scholarship and the university’s community relations, as well as overseeing the university’s interests and activities. The Chancellor has the right to be present and speak whenever the Government considers matters that have a bearing on the University of the Helsinki.

According to the University Regulations, the Chancellor grants the honorary title of professor and the title of docent. The Chancellor is also in charge of inquiries concerning alleged violations of the responsible conduct of research. The university leadership has agreed to assign the coordination of the university’s fundraising to the Chancellor.

Kaarle Hämeri began his term of five years on 1 October 2017.

 “I want to make the University an even stronger and more united institute of scholarship,” says Hämeri of his work as Chancellor.

Teppo is the director for advancement and corporate engagement at Aalto University in Finland. The integrated advancement office at Aalto includes corporate relations, donor engagement, alumni engagement, career and recruitment services, as well as CRM development and analytics.

Before joining Aalto in 2016, Teppo was an independent consultant in fundraising and international cooperation for five years, supporting Finnish universities in the governmental matching funding campaign of 2015-2017. From 2003 to 2011, he worked for the Nordic Council of Ministers in Lithuania and Denmark in governmental relations and organizing the international support for the European Humanities University, the Belarusian university-in-exile in Lithuania. 

He started his career in higher education management at the University of Helsinki in the 1990s in International Relations. He also has experience in Media and Communications, and he has written 6 travel guidebooks.

Keith Johnson recently served as director of development for Loyola University Chicago’s College of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School. In this role, Johnson worked closely with two deans, 700 faculty members, 18 department chairs, 26 interdisciplinary program directors and many advancement division partners to raise important philanthropic support from hundreds of alumni. He led record-breaking fundraising efforts for the College securing gifts of $3.3 million in 2019 and $6.3 million in 2020. He also managed and grew the dean’s advisory council for the college while pivoting alumni, donor, dean and faculty engagement to the online environment. Johnson previously worked for Loyola’s advancement division from 2005-2010, where his primary focus was planned and major gifts for the Quinlan School of Business and University-wide Midwest Regional Development. With his wife’s recent corporate promotion to the UK, he is now based in London.

As a mission-driven and donor-centric university advancement executive, philanthropic consultant, attorney and sales professional, Johnson has 17 years of higher education planned, major and principal gift fundraising experience. In addition to Loyola, he held various interdisciplinary fundraising roles at Stanford University, Illinois Institute of Technology and DePaul University. At Stanford, he built relationships with west coast alumni donors while collaborating across university schools, institutes, centers and initiatives to secure planned, major and principal gifts for the $6.2 billion “Stanford Challenge” fundraising campaign. 

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and philosophy from DePauw University and a Juris Doctor degree from Valparaiso University Law School.

Sara Kalim read Classics at Somerville from 1990-94. She then spent 14 years in the media, working as Head of Development for two major television production companies. Her work included developing access and ideas, and fundraising for documentaries and current affairs programming. Sara has most recently worked for the University of Oxford for three years at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, where she held responsibility for financial and strategic planning, and played an instrumental role in securing journalism scholarships from a variety of funding sources.

As Director of Development, Sara oversees Somerville’s fundraising strategy and development, is responsible for fundraising campaigns (including for the Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust and the Oxford India Centre), and heads up the Development Team. She is also a member of the College’s Management Team.

Sara has a long-standing family connection to India, with family coming from Patna, Bihar. She also studied at Somerville making her the perfect advocate to drive the further development of the Centre. Sara’s focus is on fundraising and profile-raising working with philanthropists and corporate partners.

Emily Kessler brings more than 10 years of international development experience to her role as senior director of development, international at Georgetown University, most recently from Johns Hopkins University where she oversaw international fundraising with a portfolio focused on Asia.

She has a master's degree in international public policy, concentrating on China and Middle East Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and an undergraduate degree in art history and religious studies from the University of Oregon.