Margaret Sentamu is a freelance Leadership Development consultant with a focus on diversity. She has worked for a number of years in the private, public and third sector which included a period as Senior Selection Secretary, overseeing the team responsible for the recruitment of trainee clergy for the Church of England.  Margaret is a Non-executive...

Christina Rees is a writer, broadcaster and communications consultant. She is also a lay minister and part-time school chaplain. Christina was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England for 25 years, and a founder member of the Archbishops’ Council, the body that advises the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on matters...

Tom Travers trained as an accountant, working in the private sector in the profession and industry before moving to CDC Group. He was posted to West Papua, Indonesia as finance director of a pioneering agricultural development, then worked on feasibility studies and monitoring and appraisal of investments mainly in Central Africa and Indonesia. Tom became...

Anna Drew Anna Drew is Director of Communications for the Diocese of Canterbury. A member of the Chartered Institute for Public Relations, she has worked in church communications for nearly 15 years, specialising in crisis management, multi-agency campaigns and resource development. Passionate about communications and theology, she has studied both at postgraduate level and she...

Tariro Julian Matsveru was born in Zimbabwe and moved to the UK in 2006. She lives in Birmingham Diocese and is currently an ordinand at Cranmer Hall, part of St John’s College, Durham, where she is doing a three-year BA in Theology, Ministry and Mission. Prior to this, she studied Biomedical Sciences and has a...

Jane B Namurye holds a MA in Peace Studies and International Relations from the Catholic University of East Africa and a BA in Community Development and Business Administration from Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya. Jane is herself one of the Daughters of Li Tim Oi. Jane worked as a journalist with the Sudan Radio Service...

The Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy is the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, one of University of Oxford's largest colleges, as well as being Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Oxford. He writes and teaches on modern ecclesiology, and as well as being a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at...

The Revd Norma Rao was born and grew up in China. She became a Christian after the Cultural Revolution. After training in a Theological college, she was ordained as a deacon in her local church in the North East of China. In the 1990s Norma studied and trained in England and was ordained in Sheffield...

    The Revd Dr Stephen Spencer Stephen is Director for Theological Education at the Anglican Communion Office in London, working to build links between theological colleges and courses across the Anglican Communion.  He previously served as vice principal of St. Hild College at Mirfield, West Yorkshire, as well as link officer for the Diocese...

Revd Lucy Thirtle has been in ordained parish ministry in the Church of England for 20 years, serving in both urban and rural parishes in Winchester diocese until moving to Oxford diocese in 2015.  As one of the second wave of ordained women, Revd Lucy Thirtle has always been grateful for those who campaigned and...

Erica is Vicar of Stockwell Parish in Southwark Diocese and brings a wealth of experience, including as a British Diplomat, serving in China and in Eastern Europe, and as an NGO manager, specialising in project development. She has worked in financial management and in building strategic partnerships with the government, local authorities and community agencies....