The research team has several sub-teams:
Julie McEver, Head of Research
Julie is responsible for helping deliver NPC’s vision of a unique, innovative research programme. She manages the research team and helps to build NPC’s research strategy and content. Prior to joining NPC, Julie worked both in the UK and the USA including roles at UnLtd, The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, as their Business Operations Director and in a variety of operational and strategic roles at Sun Microsystems. Julie has a BA and BSc from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business and an MBA from London Business School.
jmcever@philanthropycapital.org
Annika Benn, Administration assistant
Annika joined NPC in June 2008 and is the administrator for the research team. She has a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Cardiff University, and prior to joining NPC volunteered as an English teacher in rural Thailand.
abenn@philanthropycapital.org
Lindsey Harrison, Relationship Manager
Lindsey manages NPC’s relationships with grant-making trusts and other funders. She also drafts proposals for research projects and reports on the progress of our projects. Before joining NPC, Lindsey was a research assistant in the alumni department at Kings College, London and undertook an internship at the Dyslexia Institute. lharrison@philanthropycapital.org
Community/home
Justine Järvinen, Senior Research Analyst
Justine is currently working on a project, good principles for grant making. She recently managed NPC’s report on violence against women, Hard knock life. She has also produced a research report on Indian communities in the UK. Justine’s career has largely been in the oil finance industry, both as a senior research analyst at Harrison Lovegrove & Co and as an equity analyst at Goldman Sachs JB. She also worked for Shell and Esso after graduating with a chemical engineering degree.
jjarvinen@philanthropycapital.org
Esther de Jong, Research Analyst
Esther is currently researching the area of financial exclusion in the UK after joining the research team in September 2006. Esther has a Masters in the Psychology of Religion from the University of Cambridge.
edejong@philanthropycapital.org
Angela Kail, Research Analyst
Angela is currently working on a project, good principles for grant making. She also co-authored NPC’s report on violence against women, Hard knock life, having joined New Philanthropy Capital in April 2007. Previously she completed a report looking at young people in Scotland who are neither working nor learning. Prior to joining NPC, she was an Investment Analyst at Baillie Gifford, after graduating from Oxford with a degree in Classics.
akail@philanthropycapital.org
Community/society
Simon Blake, Senior Research Analyst
Simon is currently managing NPC’s research into financial exclusion in the UK and homelessness. Other areas of interest include child poverty and labour markets.
Simon joined NPC from the BBC where he worked as a broadcast journalist on Radio 4, focusing on social affairs and public policy. He was also a lobbyist at the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) for three years. Simon has an MSc in Social Policy.
sblake@philanthropycapital.org
Adrian Fradd, Research Analyst
Adrian is currently researching NPC’s homelessness report. He has recently completed A life less ordinary, about autism and co-authored the report Striking a chord which explores how charities are using the power of music to tackle social problems and change lives. Before joining NPC, Adrian completed internships with the UN Secretariat in New York, and the UN Development Programme in Uganda after gaining a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics. afradd@philanthropycapital.org
Jo Lee Morrison, Research Analyst
Jo is part of the community team within research, and is managing a portfolio of community organisations for the stockbroking firm, Execution. Prior to NPC, Jo worked at Toynbee Hall on financial inclusion projects, volunteered on development projects in Thailand, Uganda and Bulgaria and completed a Philosophy and Theology degree at the University of Oxford. jleemorrison@philanthropycapital.org
Rebecca Wyton, Research Analyst
Rebecca joined NPC in April 2008, and is currently working on the community society team. Previously she worked at the Institute of Psychiatry conducting research into substance misuse, and at the University of Nottingham on research into cognitive and developmental psychology. She has a degree in Engineering from Loughborough University and a Masters in Psychology from the University of Nottingham.
rwyton@philanthropycapital.org
Education
John Copps, Senior Research Analyst
John's research is mainly education focused and he has written the following reports: On your marks, which offers an overview on young people in education, What’s next? concerning careers guidance and Read on, which focuses literacy in schools. John also co-authored the research for Surer Funding: the acevo commission of inquiry report, which looked at the funding relationship between the public sector and charities in service delivery and What price an ordinary life?, a cost-benefit analysis of services for disabled children. John has a degree in Geography from Cambridge. jcopps@philanthropycapital.org
Dinah McKenzie, Research Analyst
Dinah’s main focus at present is charity analysis, and she is currently applying this to the educational sector as well as the health sector. She produced the report, The hidden assassin, which looked at the cancer landscape in the UK. Dinah previously worked as Director of European Equities at HSBC Asset Management. She also spent time volunteering at the Royal Marsden Hospital and The Institute of Cancer Research. dmckenzie@philanthropycapital.org
Eleanor Stringer, Research Analyst
Eleanor is currently researching homelessness. She published NPC’s report into young asylum seekers in the UK, A long way to go. Eleanor is also the point of contact for questions about NPC reports and charities working with young people in divided communities. Previously Eleanor spent three months in Belize volunteering with a human rights NGO, after graduating from Oxford with a degree in Philosophy and Economics. estringer@philanthropycapital.org
Alex Steer, Research Analyst
Alex joined NPC in April 2008, and is currently working on the education team. Previously, he worked as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary and taught English at Oxford University. He has MA and MPhil degrees in English from Cambridge University.asteer@philanthropycapital.org
Health
Iona Joy, Senior Research Analyst
Iona's primary area of interest is health, and since joining NPC she has co-authored Caring about dying on palliative care and support for the terminally ill; Valuing short lives, concerning children with terminal conditions; and Don’t mind me which focuses on adults with mental health problems, as well as What price an ordinary life?, which looks at the financial costs and benefits of disabled children and their families. She also worked on reports on HIV/AIDS in South Africa and the Great Lakes region. Prior to joining NPC, Iona had a career in venture capital with the Commonwealth Development Corporation in London, Uganda and Singapore after training as a merchant banker at Samuel Montagu. She is a director of The Funding Network. Read: How NPC compares to my previous work. ijoy@philanthropycapital.org
Matthew van Poortvliet, Research Analyst
Matthew is currently researching children and young people’s mental health, and is also responsible for updating NPC’s disability charities. Prior to joining NPC in September 2007, Matthew worked as an English language teacher in Ecuador and Cambridge. He has a degree in English from Oxford University and a Masters in Sociology from the London School of Economics. mvanpoortvliet@philanthropycapital.org
Clare Yeowart, Research Analyst
Clare is researching children and young people's mental health. She recently co-authored After the bell, a report on out of school hour activities for young people. Before joining NPC in November 2006, Clare worked in the Corporate Communications division of Weber Shandwick and as editorial assistant for a consumer magazine. Clare has an MSc in Economic and Social History from Oxford University. cyeowart@philanthropycapital.org
Tools
Tris Lumley, Senior Research Analyst
Tris leads NPC Tools—a new team developing practical tools for charities and funders that help them to measure, analyse and communicate results. This team is also developing NPC’s approach to analysing charities’ results—the changes they create in people’s lives—first published in Funding success in 2005. Tris has also co-authored a number of reports within the community sector, on child abuse, adult and child refugees, and older people. Before NPC, Tris worked in management consultancy at Deloitte Consulting, as a due diligence and research analyst at Scientific Generics and as a research analyst at FreshMinds. Read: How NPC compares to my previous work. tlumley@philanthropycapital.org
Lucy Heady, Head of Quantitative Analyst
Lucy’s main focus as a member of the NPC Tools team is on quantitative research, focusing on the results of charities’ work. She is currently working on projects to measure the impact of charities on children’s well-being, and to standardise reporting to funders. Lucy has also authored papers assessing the costs and benefits of tackling truancy and school exclusion, and of services for disabled children.
Before joining NPC, Lucy gained a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge and completed post-doctoral work at the university. She also spent time working at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. lheady@philanthropycapital.org
Sarah Keen, Quantitative Analyst
Sarah is focused on quantitative research within NPC Tools. She is currently working on a project assessing the costs to charities of reporting to funders. Prior to NPC, she carried out research in India on social networks and microfinance and was an intern at the Department for International Development. She has a degree in Economics from Cambridge.
skeen@philanthropycapital.org
Gustaf Lofgren, Research Analyst
Gustaf joined the NPC Tools team in June 2008 and is working on a report on advocacy and campaigning and on an online results library for charities. His last job was with management consulting firm Oliver Wyman, and he has previously worked in the Swedish public sector and volunteered in Cambodia. He has a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from the University of Oxford.
glofgren@philanthropycapital.org
Camilla Nevill, Quantitative Analyst
Camilla’s main focus is on quantitative work within NPC Tools, and in particular measuring the impact of charities on children’s well-being.
Prior to NPC Camilla was a researcher at the National Centre for Social Research in London and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg. She has a degree in Psychology from Oxford University, and a Masters in Forensic Psychology.
cnevill@philanthropycapital.org
Complex Organisations
Belinda Vernon, Senior Research Analyst
Belinda is currently working on analyses of large and complex charities.
Belinda previously worked as a management consultant for Coopers and Lybrand, where she advised private and public sector organisations on their strategy and performance. She also worked as an equity analyst at CSFB analysing multinational engineering companies. Belinda has a degree in engineering, an MBA and is presently studying for a degree in International Relations. bvernon@philanthropycapital.org
International
Iona Miller, India Programme Manager
Iona is a senior research analyst currently working in India, with NPC's research partner, Copal Partners. She co-authored NPC’s report Hard knock life on violence against women, and also Don’t mind me, which focuses on adults with mental health problems. Iona previously worked as a junior researcher for the Liberal Democrat party after graduating from SOAS with a Masters in Development Studies.
imiller@philanthropycapital.org