Mike recently retired from full time work with Oxfam GB. He joined Oxfam GB as a lobbyist in 1987 and went on to work in the legal team where he advised trustees, management and staff on regulatory and governance issues and was Oxfam's primary contact with the Charity Commission and other regulatory bodies. In the 2000s, he was a board member of Amnesty International UK Section and a trustee of AI's Charitable Trust and a member of their finance sub-committee. He has also been a member of and for five years chair of the Charity Tax Group.

Dr. Michelle Parlevliet is a practitioner-scholar working on the nexus of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, human rights and social justice in various contexts and capacities since 1995, nowadays based in the Netherlands.

Dr. Sophia Close is an Associate with Conciliation Resources since December 2021. Prior to that Sophia was the Head of Gender and Peacebuilding for Conciliation Resources for five years leading on gender, peace and security policy engagement, research, analysis and programme design and delivery.

Amy oversees our gender and Women, Peace and Security work, supporting our teams and partners to integrate gender analysis into their peacebuilding programming, and leading our global research and advocacy on gender and WPS. 

Nick manages all areas of communications, with a focus on producing content which tells the story of Conciliation Resources, our programmes and partners.

Nick joined Conciliation Resources in 2022 and brings with him a range of communications skills and experience, from writing and producing multimedia content, to developing communications strategies and managing organisational websites.