Ready Together
Amrit Bangard
Amrit Bangard is a strategy, policy, legislation and engagement specialist with more than a decade of experience of crises and response at national and local level. She was Deputy Director in the Cabinet Office's Covid-19 Taskforce, responsible for ministerial decision-making during the pandemic response. She led policy and engagement for the Home Office's work supporting the Windrush generation, and in the communities department led work on homelessness and rough sleeping, the response to the Grenfell Tower Fire, and building safety. Earlier, she spent four years in the Department for Business across roles including social mobility, industrial strategy and ministerial private office, and led legislation through parliament, including the introduction of gender pay gap reporting.
Lindsay Gustafsson
Lindsay Gustafsson has more than 20 years' experience in consumer finance and retail banking, in both permanent and consultancy roles. She specialises in credit risk and fraud, including credit risk scorecards and Basel II models, credit risk decision strategies, fraud prevention models, and portfolio management in prime and subprime environments. She volunteered with the National Emergencies Trust during the Coronavirus Appeal, applying her analytical and risk expertise outside financial services. With a teaching background, she translates complex technical methods into plain business language.
David Mazzuca
David Mazzuca is Lead Instructor at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Columbia Climate School, where he teaches whole-community emergency response and recovery for US state, local, tribal and territorial governments. In 2022 he was a Hitachi International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, based at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University, where he researched community-led disaster risk reduction in Japan. From 2015 to 2019 he was Assistant Director for Housing Recovery in New Jersey's Sandy Recovery Division, responsible for the state's 1.4 billion US dollar post-Sandy housing restoration grant programme. Before that he supported FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate as a consultant with BAE Systems.
Dr Ewan Mitchell
Dr Ewan Mitchell is an award-winning enterprise AI and data science leader with more than a decade of experience, and Head of AI at Octopus Energy. He led the data science team for the National Emergencies Trust's Coronavirus response, and went on to lead machine learning and generative AI work at Aviva. He is a recognised speaker on deploying safe, customer-focused AI, and on making data and AI clear to people who are not specialists.
Bhagti Patel
Bhagti Patel volunteered as a paralegal with the National Emergencies Trust during the Coronavirus Appeal, helping to draft contracts, manage grant distributions and develop internal policies. Her background is in law and economics, with practical experience in paralegal work and legal technology. Originally from Zimbabwe, she moved to the UK in 2008. She has a particular interest in improving how legal and operational processes work.
Christopher Querée
Christopher Querée has more than 35 years' investment experience and has worked directly with charities and endowments since 2001. He spent 18 years as Investment Director and Head of Charities at Ruffer LLP, responsible for over £2 billion of charitable assets, and was lead manager on the Charity Assets Trust. He began his career as a stockbroker and equity specialist, becoming a member of the London Stock Exchange in 1991, and is CISI qualified with an MBA. His direct management experience spans the major asset classes, from fixed interest and global equities to currency and hedging. He has worked with some of the UK's largest third sector organisations, from church bodies and universities to major grant-giving foundations, and advises the Stroke Association and the Normandy Memorial Trust.
Sarri Singer
Sarri Singer is founder and director of Strength to Strength, which brings together survivors of terrorism from around the world and supports their long-term recovery. Until the September 11 attacks, she worked two blocks from the World Trade Center in New York. Moved by that day, she left her job and went to Israel to support survivors of terror, where she herself survived a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in June 2003. She has spoken to audiences across the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Israel about the long-term needs of people affected by terror.
Jasmine Yeo
Jasmine Yeo is a fund manager at Ruffer LLP, where she co-manages the firm's FTSE-250 investment trust alongside two of its flagship funds, including a charity investment vehicle with an ethical policy. Before focusing on fund management, she worked in Ruffer's private wealth team managing multi-asset portfolios for individuals, charities and trusts, and held an Investment Specialist role in the UK Wholesale team. She graduated from Warwick Business School in international business, and is a Chartered Wealth Manager and member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. She also holds the Private Client Investment Advice and Management qualification and the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.
