The EDW Team
All of the individuals who feature as EDW’s key personnel are committed to our ethos and aims and have joined the team in the spirit of EDW’s Mission:
‘To empower disadvantaged communities to unleash their entrepreneurial potential to create vibrant and economically sustainable enterprise cultures’.
The Board of Directors
Richard Williams, Chair and Director
Godfrey Bruce Radcliffe, Director and Solicitor
Kennie Williamson BA (Hons), Director, Training Consultant
Emmet Byrne ACMA, Company Secretary
Chief Executive
Country/Regional Directors
Dr Elfneh U Bariso BA, MA, MSc, PhD, Ethiopian Project Director
Michael Horton, Cambodian Project Director
Dishon Kirima BSc (Hons), Kenyan Project Director
Yomi Oloko, Project Director, Lagos, Nigeria
Richard Strudwick BA, Development Director – Australasia / Oceania
Project Managers
James Jolly MA, Project Manager – Central Europe
Trevor Phillips ACIB, Relationship Manager
Consultancy, Research, Regeneration, Training, Capacity Building
Andrew Bain BSc, Dip Arch (UCL), RIBA, Architect
Darren Baxter BEng (Hons), MIET, Electrical Engineer
John Burdet BSc, ACGI CEng, MIStructE, Engineering, Planning and Design Consultant
Dr Jim Coleman MA (Econ), MSc (Econ), PhD (Econ), Economic and Regeneration Consultant
James Dick, Project and Technical Management Consultant
Colin Gilfillan FRSA, MIED, Economic Development and Research
Liz Mackie BA (Hons), MA, MIED, Economic Development and Research
Philip Mills PG Cert, BA (Hons), Business Enterprise, Youth Engagement Consultant
Chris Paddock BA (Hons), MSc, Economic and Regeneration Consultant
Anne Savage BA (Hons), Insurance Consultant
Christopher Singer FBCS, CITP, International Development Consultant
Kate Stillman BA (Hons), PG Dip, MBACP, Business Counsellor and Trainer
Justin Sykes BA (Hons), MSc, Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Consultant
Rojer Whieldon BSc Occ Psych, MA Exist Psych, Senior Training and Development Consultant
Mark Wilson ADMP, Graphic Design and Website Consultant
Strategic Partners
Charity Bank
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
The Prince’s Youth Business International
UKBI
"The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them."
Muhammad Yunus