Toby Aykroyd, MA, MBA
Co-Chair of PSN

Toby studied macroeconomics, geography and development economics at Cambridge University and has a Master of Business Administration from Cranfield Institute of Technology. Following an initial posting to the UN Development Programme in Central America, working on agricultural projects, his career has involved mainly commercial business management, under contract to government and in the private sector. He has directed a political lobbying group and co-founded the Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative.

Marta Benavides
International Institute for Co-operation between Peoples, El Salvador

Marta Benavides is a theologian, biologist, permaculturist and educator. She works in El Salvador on social transformation in the context of education for a culture of peace. She is particularly concerned with problems associated with water and sanitation due to increasing aridity in El Salvador.

She has been active in various UN processes, in particular those associated with WSSD 2002.

She was one of the speakers at the Partnership event at the UN in 2004.

Catherine Budgett-Meakin
Network Coordinator

From 1983 to 1998 Catherine worked for the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action), setting up their UK education programme, and eventually leading their communications department.

Since 1998 she has worked as a freelance consultant for a number of international NGOs including Save the Children, ActionAid and Oxfam, and has carried out a number of evaluations for the UK Department for International Development and the Commonwealth Institute.

Since 2001 she has worked on population and reproductive health issues, and attended WSSD 2002 in Johannesburg. In 2003 she set up the Population and Sustainability Network with the support of the steering group.

Dr Martha Campbell,
lecturer in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. 

As a political scientist and health policy specialist, Dr Campbell has focused on global population growth and the economics of international health and family planning.  In the 1990s she led the David and Lucile Packard Foundation's population programme.   

She is also the founder and pres of Venture Strategies for Health and Development (www.venturestrategies.org) a non-profit organisation created to help people by making use of existing market forces, in recognition that government health services in many developing countries are not able to reach most of the poor.  Her academic degrees are from Wellesley College and the University of Colorado.  She is a Trustee of the London-based Margaret Pyke Memorial Trust.

Emma Collins
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Emma graduated from the University of Wales Institute in 2004 with a BSc (Hons) in Consumer Science. Employment history includes a VSO placement year working for the Ministry of Health in the Maldives.

Emma is an active member of the Institute of Consumer Sciences in the UK, and International Federation for Home Economics. Currently, Emma is studying for an MSc in Demography and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Professor John Guillebaud
Co-Chair of PSN

John is Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at University College London, Honorary Consultant in Family Planning for the Oxford Community Primary Care Trust. Until 2002 he was also Medical Director of the Margaret Pyke Centre in London and continues as Trustee of the Margaret Pyke Memorial Trust.

Dr Susannah Mayhew, PhD
London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine

Susannah is a lecturer at the University of London and the University of Leeds. She is involved in research on sexual and reproductive health and rights and international policies relative to population, HIV and AIDS in Africa and Asia.

Ruth McNeil
Research Consultant, Response Consulting

Ruth has a career in marketing and international market research building on an early start in public relations for the Family Planning Association. She is a Member of the Market Research Society and a frequent speaker on research and evaluation.

She has given talks on fertility and other issues related to reproductive health and has for many years juggled a career in marketing with an active participation in a number of organisations in the voluntary sector.

For a number of years, she was a board director at the international research group, Research International and played a major part in the Business in the Community (BiTC) Leadership Committee for Cause Related Marketing.

For many years she also undertook research for BiTC on corporate attitudes to social responsibility and changing public awareness of corporate social responsibility and public accountability.  Ruth is now Vice Chair of the trustees of Practical Action (which used to be called ITDG, the Intermediate Technology Group).

Zipporah Musau
 

Zippy has worked in Nairobi as Senior Editor for the Daily Nation - a publication highly respected throughout East Africa.

Prior to that she was Sub-Editor for the East African Standard. She also provided live coverage of parliamentary debates as a reporter for the Kenyan National Assembly. She specialises in science and the environment and was awarded the African Journalist Award for the year in 2000. She is currently studying for an MA in International Journalism at the City University, London.

Daisy Owomugasho
African Women's Economic Policy Network, Uganda

Daisy is a Lecturer at the Makerere Institute of Economics in Uganda. Her areas of interest include policy and planning particularly as they affect poverty and gender. She has more than 12 years experience in teaching, research, consultancy and advocacy.

She holds a Masters Degree in Development Economics from Dalhousie University, Canada, and a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Rural Development from Makerere University, Kampala.

She was one of the speakers at the Partnership event at the UN in 2004.

Stephen W. Sinding

Steven W. Sinding was the Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) from 2002-2006. Before joining IPPF, Dr Sinding was Professor of Population and Family Health and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Columbia University.

From 1991 to 1999, he served as Director of the Population Sciences program at the Rockefeller Foundation and in 1994 was a member of the United States delegation to the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo. Prior to joining Rockefeller, Steven served as Senior Population Adviser to the World Bank, following a 20-year career at the U.S. Agency for International Development. 

He has written extensively on international population matters and is the author of the article on “family planning programs” in the Encyclopedia of Population and co-editor of Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World (Oxford: 2001).