Alex Favier is the director of global and political affairs at The University of Nottingham. His remit includes international government relations across the University's campuses in the UK, China, and Malaysia, supporting the impact of the University's research amongst policy-makers, strategic reputation and relationship management, higher education policy and supporting the vice-chancellor and university executive board. 

Alex sits on the advisory board for UUKI HE Forum and represents Universities on the Midlands Engine Trade and Investment Board. 

Alex is the CASE Europe’s Annual Conference Chair (2018-20). 

Prior to this, Alex established the national political affairs and policy function at the University of Warwick, where he was responsible for developing relationships between the university and policy-makers in Westminster, Whitehall, and the wider policy community, as well as public engagement and festivals. Alex held roles in public affairs at Warwick; as the policy and parliamentary adviser for the mission-group, University Alliance; as the business development manager for the University of Sheffield's Public Services Academy and in economic policy for Sheffield City Council. He has a master's degree in global politics and law from the University of Sheffield, where he was also an undergraduate.

Cathy was appointed as director of Strategy and Operations in the Office of the Vice Provost (Development) at University College London(UCL) in March 2017. She joined OVPD from UCL's Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Social and Historical Sciences where she was faculty manager for both faculties, responsible for a variety of strategic projects, training, and development. She has also worked as faculty manager of laws at UCL, and has held senior roles at King's College London and VSO.

In her current role, she is a key member of the OVPD leadership team, helping to successfully deliver UCL's new philanthropy and engagement campaign, which will raise £600m for the university's biggest long-term ambitions. She leads work to identify and develop strategic fundraising partnerships with partners including Moorfields Eye Charity and the Foundation for Future London, and also supports all parts of UCL in their fundraising work with guidance and advice, particular on gift acceptance and due diligence.
 

Graeme is the founder of Lagotto Solutions, a company helping universities and schools across the globe to identify and better understand their most prominent and successful alumni. Since its founding in 2015, Lagotto has worked with over 200 organisations to widen and strengthen prospect pools. A set of novel search techniques he developed sit at the heart of Lagotto’s prospect identification work and he is widely regarded as a leading thinker and innovator in this area.

As well as being a prospect research expert Graeme is also a talented and experienced fundraising leader. He was a Partner at More Partnership for 2 years and worked with a broad range of clients during this time (e.g. University College London, London School of Economics, University of Bradford, Bocconi University, Royal Academy of Music). The main focus of his work was the training, development and mentorship of fundraisers, fundraising leaders and prospect researchers.

He also spent 9 years at the University of East Anglia (UEA), also his alma mater, where he established their first major gift programme. He also led UEA's first institutional fundraising effort, The Difference Campaign, which successfully raised £50 million. Under his leadership the campaign was extended and is on track to raise £100 million by 2020.

Prior to his appointment at UEA, Graeme worked in the charity sector as head of fundraising at The Papworth Trust, fundraising manager at Ormiston Children & Families Trust, and as a programme manager at The Prince's Trust.

Richard Brabner is the director for the UPP Foundation. Previously, he joined the University of Hertfordshire in 2009, where he was the university's senior policy adviser, a job which combines policy and public affairs support to the university's senior management team. Prior to this, he was a researcher in Parliament for two years after graduating from the University of Essex with a bachelor's degree in modern history and politics in 2007. He completed a master's degree in public policy and management from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Rachel joined the Development and Alumni Relations division at the University of Sussex in 2016, where she works with a team of highly skilled and dedicated development professionals. Her remit includes alumni relations, fundraising, donor stewardship and development operations. 

Rachel's advancement career began in earnest in 2006, when she moved from the private sector to Guildhall School of Music and Drama. At Guildhall, she established and managed the alumni programme before her remit expanded to leading the Alumni and Supporter Engagement team, which included responsibility for the annual fund, donor engagement, and database management. She holds a degree in politics, economics, and philosophy from the University of York, having also worked for the York Alumni Office while a student. 
 

Kerrie joined Aston University in 2018, leading alumni and supporter engagement and development services. Aston exists to serve its beneficiaries – students, business, our region and society – and Kerrie works strategically across the University to develop alumni support for these, and to address international and employability priorities. Kerrie worked in recruitment at a senior level before seeing the light and entering the world of alumni relations in 2011. She joined the University of Birmingham as their first Volunteer Relationship Manager, becoming Deputy Head of Alumni Relations in 2014 and then Head of Engagement, leading an award-winning team producing innovative work across communications, events, student engagement and donor relations. Kerrie is passionate about collaboration and development communities. She is a member of the CASE Talent Management network, an Advisory Board member for TEDx Aston University and has been a speaker for IDPE and AUA as well as CASE.

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.

Claire Brown is Head of Marketing at the University of Manchester, the UK’s largest single site University. Claire began her marketing career in the FMCG sector but then moved into Higher Education, joining the University of Liverpool in 2000 where her career culminated in her appointment as Director of External Relations, Marketing and Communications. Claire is a Fellow of the CIM and a former trustee of CASE Europe.

Melanie joined De Montfort University (DMU) in 2011, and was appointed Executive Director of Marketing and Communications in 2015 having previously worked as Director of Student Recruitment.

She is responsible for reputation management; brand and creative strategy; student recruitment; communications; web and digital; and market insight. She is passionate about a highly creative and evidence-based approach to marketing and communications.
Prior to joining DMU, Melanie held a variety of marketing roles at the Universities of Leeds and Northampton. She was awarded a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Leeds, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketers
 

Lindsey is a TES Award-winning fundraiser with over ten years' experience of working in development and alumni engagement across the higher education and schools sector. 

Lindsey is currently building a new Development Office at Bradford Grammar School, which was recently voted 2018 Northern Independent School of the Year by the Sunday Times and counts David Hockney, Alastair Campbell, and Adrian Moorhouse MBE amongst its alumni. She has strategic oversight of fundraising, alumni and corporate relations, and marketing and communications activity and is in the preliminary stages of planning a major fundraising campaign for the school.

Prior to moving up north, Lindsey was Development Director at the Independent Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham (KES and KEHS) for almost three years. During this time, she raised over £4.8 million for Assisted Places and capital projects across two distinct campaigns at very different stages of evolution, developing a dynamic alumni engagement programme at the girls’ school and broadening corporate engagement with KEHS as part of the Delyvere Campaign, At KES, she led the Development Office through the close and celebration phases of the school’s £10million AP100 Campaign.

Lindsey began her fundraising career as a major gifts officer at the University of Oxford, where for seven years she led on fundraising for access projects and bursary provision, securing over £5 million in new donations as part of the ground-breaking Oxford Thinking Campaign. A graduate of the University of Oxford and the first in her family to go to university, she is passionate about using philanthropy to advance educational opportunities – education proving so transformational in her own life.