Alexander is a trusted advisor to typically international clients, with more than 15 years legal and global consultancy experience
A seasoned litigator, he has particular expertise in the resolution of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, usually with reputational aspects, and public affairs. As a trustee and advisor, Alexander’s long-term preoccupation has been balancing the imperatives of environmental conservation and human development.
He was the founding CEO of the charity Stop Ivory; head of the Secretariat to the inter-governmental Elephant Protection Initiative; and is a Chairman of Tusk Trust.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and a Conservation Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). In 2018 the ZSL named him its Conservationist of the Year in recognition of his work supporting African governments in combatting the illegal ivory trade and in elephant conservation.

Beatrice is a strategic communications specialist with over 25 years’ experience as a development communications professional covering the African continent with extensive experience in East, Central and Southern Africa. She has worked as journalist with BBC and Reuters and for several international NGO’s – African Wildlife Foundation, UNICEF, Oxfam (GB). She has also consulted for Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Kofi Annan Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stop Ivory, Northern Rangelands Trust and Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.
As a child of Africa with roots in Kenya and Uganda, Beatrice has a strong and unyielding passion for African development and environmental issues and believes that the conservation and development can co-exist and is keen to play her part to make sure Kenya’s future is sustainable, balanced and wise.

Dr Susan Canney has worked on a variety of nature conservation projects across Africa, Asia and Europe, and in policy research for the UK’s chief sustainability adviser. She has worked in central Mali since 2003, initially with Save the Elephants, and since 2006 with WILD Foundation to work with local actors to develop an integrated model of human-elephant co-existence that has protected this small, yet iconic, population of desert-adapted elephants, despite the lawlessness, insecurity and deepening jihadist insurgency that erupted in 2012. The robustness (so far) of the model has enticed her to continue the work to understand more about the complex factors involved in making space for elephants. She is a Research Associate of the Department of Zoology, Oxford University, a Trustee of Tusk Trust, a Tusk Conservation Award Judge, a member of the Sahara Conservation Fund’s Science and Conservation Committee, and of the African Elephant Specialist Group.

Nick Maughan is a British investor and philanthropist. He was born in 1980 in London, where he lived and was educated before studying Religion and Theology at the University of Manchester. He returned to London for his master’s in finance at Cass Business School (now Bayes Business School). At the age of twenty-four Nick left the UK to work in New York and has since lived on both sides of the Atlantic.

Barbara has over 20 years’ experience as an economist and development policy practitioner in Africa. Her career highlights include, advising the Rwandan government on social sector policy issues and helping to establish a poverty observatory. Working for the), where she initiated dialogue with ministries of finance and key sectorial ministries, the World Bank, IMF and bilateral donors. Helped shape the AfDB’s work in fragile states like Liberia and Zimbabwe. Barbara also served as AfDB Lead Economist in Nigeria, engaging closely with the Nigerian government and development partners on the Economic Growth and Recovery Plan (2017-2020). She has also worked at the United Nations Development Programme (2001-2009), leading the Poverty Reduction and Macroeconomics Management Unit and managing a multidisciplinary team of four experts working in the Southern Africa Development Community region. Barbara advised and brought technical support to 14 southern African-based UNDP country offices and national governments on formulating poverty reduction-related policy, analysis and monitoring.

Hakeem Belo-Osagie is an accomplished Nigerian professional and entrepreneur. He earned a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University as well as a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
A successful entrepreneur and businessman, Mr. Belo-Osagie has been a key player in the Nigerian economy for over three decades through his participation and development of several businesses in the private sector, particularly in energy, finance and telecommunications.
An advocate for higher education, Mr. Belo-Osagie is a member of the Harvard University Global Advisory Board. Additionally, he serves as Chairman of the board of trustees of Harvard’s Centre for African Studies where he and his wife have endowed the Hakeem and Myma Belo-Osagie Distinguished African Entrepreneurship Lecture series. He is also a member of Yale University President’s Council on International Activities and the New York University President’s Global Council.

Dr. Tim Wittig is Head of Intelligence for United for Wildlife, a groundbreaking program of the Royal Foundation of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge to mobilize the public and private sectors into a global response network against wildlife trafficking, leveraging a combination of high level commitments alongside intelligence sharing. Tim designed and runs the central information sharing system of United for Wildlife’s Financial and Transport Taskforces, which now provides regular intelligence and actionable data updates to 250 of the worlds’ largest banks, airlines, and maritime shipping companies as well as 70 affilitated partners in law enforcement and conservation. Tim currently holds academic fellowships at Oxford University and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and leads the intelligence program for the conservation NGO Focused Conservation. Prior to working full time in conservation, Tim had previous careers in defense intelligence and as a professor of International Relations, focusing on terrorist and illicit finance and applied data analytics.