Ndidi is the chief executive officer of UK Youth, a leading national charity with a mission to unlock the power of youth work for 10 million more young people. UK Youth is driving systemic change by increasing the sustainability of funding for youth work, effective collaboration across youth focused sectors and opportunities to scale effective practice.

Prior to joining UK Youth, Ndidi’s 20-year career spans across the education, charity, and corporate sectors. Her former roles include teacher, school leader, executive director of the national Charity Teach First and vice-president at Pearson PLC.

Ndidi currently is a non-executive director on the boards of The Southbank Centre, Teach For All, and Sky’s Diversity Council.

The former motor racing champion became president in 1999 and continues to work tirelessly to promote the charity. Nigel has taken on a host of fundraisers raising more than £1 million for UK Youth.

HRH, patron since 2003, makes a number of personal appearances each year on behalf of UK Youth, and has a genuine understanding and passion of the positive impact UK Youth has on young peoples lives.

David was appointed as a trustee of UK Youth in February 2020.

David has 45 years’ experience in engineering and business. He served on the global management board of Accenture for 11 years prior to retiring in 2014. His leadership roles at Accenture included group chief executive of the Resources industries, chair of the UK and Ireland Geographies and chief geographic strategy and operations officer across 55 countries.

Since retiring, David has a wide portfolio of roles and interests. He was formerly chair of Moixa Energy and the international chair at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Other current and continuing roles include: advisor to the board of Arup, chair of the audit committee of Arup, advisory board member of Immerse, a virtual reality tech start-up, and BecomingX.

He has been a long-term supporter of TeachFirst and serves on the Teach For All UK Board.

Matt has worked in financial services for more than 20 years and specialises in leading large transformation programmes and managing significant-sized teams in multi-regional structures. He is chief executive officer of 10th Bridge Consulting and has previously held senior positions at Holley Holland Consulting, RBS, Deutsche Bank and PWC, in a variety of change-related roles.

Daniel is a senior manager at PwC, providing audit and specialist assurance services, with a particular focus on working with the central government and not-for-profit clients. He was appointed to the Charities SORP Committee in February 2020. Daniel is a chartered accountant and holds the ICAEW Diploma in charity accounting. He is also a chartered manager and has a master’s degree in educational leadership and management.

Godfrey is a senior secretariat lead for the Covid-19 Taskforce in the Cabinet Office. He has held several roles within the Civil Service. His career and volunteering have focused on supporting young people to fulfil their potential. Godfrey sits on the people committee as race lead, working and motivating leaders across the Civil Service assimilating their challenging feedback, enhancing their capability to cultivate young and BAME leadership within the Civil Service. He is also a Governor of a local school.

Lanai is in her second year of a children’s nursing degree at Birmingham City University.  Since 2019, Lanai is an #iwill ambassador for UK Youth including for the young and black campaign and has represented and spoken at numerous events for UK Youth.  She is also a volunteer at Volunteering Matters for the youth social action project since 2015.

Aaron is a strategy consultant and was previously business manager at Global Markets Consultants, a management consulting firm in the City of London. He was elected Common Councillor for Tower Ward, City of London, in January 2022. In 2018, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with a PwC team, raising more than £5,000 for UK Youth. Aaron joined UK Youth as a trustee in 2016.

Obum currently leads DeepMind’s efforts to build an AI ecosystem that supports inclusive and equitable use of AI to maximise benefit to society. He has dedicated his career towards enabling people from underrepresented groups to access a quality computing and AI education, and to thrive in whatever career they choose to pursue afterwards. In 2022, Obum was made an OBE in the New Year Honours’ List for services to computing and AI education, and championing diversity and inclusion in the tech sector.

Anna is chief of staff for finance at Pearson. She is a qualified accountant with extensive commercial finance experience in the education and media sector. In her career, she has held various finance roles in Pearson, Nuffield Health and PricewaterhouseCoopers and has recently been shortlisted for NXT GEN Female Finance chief financial officer of the future award.

Ben works as part of Sport England’s external affairs team to champion the organisation’s work in grassroots sport and physical activity across Westminster and Whitehall. Previously policy adviser for the Sport and Recreation Alliance, he led their policy, influencing and advocacy work around public health, mental health and helping more children and young people to be active.

Jolanta is chief executive of Ambitious about Autism, including the School Trust. She chairs two sector infrastructure bodies – Autism Education Trust and the Autism Alliance. Her career includes director roles in national voluntary sector organisations, including I CAN and the Governance Hub, a national body set up to support the governance of the third sector.

Jodie is the chief executive officer of Oxfordshire Youth, vice-chair of the Oxfordshire Children’s Trust Board, chair of the Children and Young People’s Forum and co-chair of the Charity Leaders Forum. A strategic leader and big picture thinker, Jodie is passionate about equality, social justice, system change, youth voice and the power of youth work to change lives.

Iain has 20 years’ experience in the technology industry, with a particular focus on helping businesses and governments deliver better outcomes using technology. He is currently the Country Manager for Stripe in the UK. Along with other trustees, he cycled to Paris from London in 2017 in support of UK Youth.

Nneka is a senior director at Alvarez & Marsal, where she leads the firm’s UK wealth management performance improvement proposition. Prior to this, Nneka spent more than three years as chief operating officer at Morrinson Wealth and circa 10 years in management consulting, initially at Accenture and then Deloitte. During this time, Nneka also served as chief of staff to the Deloitte UK chairman. Nneka’s experience includes working with global financial institutions to deliver large-scale programmes and she continues to work with boards, executive teams and senior leaders across financial services to assess strategic opportunities, address complex challenges and optimise outcomes for clients.

Nneka is a non-executive director at BusinessLDN. Nneka is a passionate mentor and advocate of social mobility and inclusion. She is a mentor with the Social Mobility Foundation, Girls Are INvestors (GAIN) and Women of Colour Global Network and previously held mentoring roles at the Amos Bursary and Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. Nneka was a school governor for six years and continues to support schools through Inspiring the Future and Women of the Future.

Nneka studied for an MEng in engineering, economics and management at the University of Oxford. Nneka passed Chartered Financial Analyst level one and is an active participant in Toastmasters.

Jon is an executive director at the Youth Endowment Fund and previously a special advisor within the Department of Education and a business analyst at McKinsey. He founded three youth initiatives, including the National Citizen Service, founding, and scaling a charity from three volunteers to 1,000 staff.

His main priority in life is to be a decent human – and support young people to progress through the youth work he has been involved in, to serve young people through the initiatives he has founded and be a decent husband and father.

Jacob ensures the charity’s work is informed by the best available evidence, the needs and preferences of young people, and continuous learning. He joined UK Youth in 2021, after eight years leading research and strategy at mental health charity Mind.

His career has included multiple research projects, service development, and policy roles focused on young people. These include working on youth unemployment policy for Jacinda Ardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is also chair of trustees at Off the Record, the South West’s pioneering youth mental health charity. 

Thora comes to UK Youth with a senior career spanning, operations, strategy, programme development and delivery across the education and youth sectors.

Previously, Thora worked at the Teaching School Hubs Council, where she led the executive team in the annual £17 million delivery of the Government’s national 87 teaching school hubs. Within its first year, the network was able to scale to deliver training to more than 30,000 people. 

David is responsible for overall management and strategy of UK Youth outdoor learning and the leadership and development of UK Youth’s Avon Tyrrell Outdoor Activity Centre, a successful social enterprise business.

With more than 20 years’ experience of working in the outdoor learning and youth sectors, David is instrumental in the centre becoming a leader in the delivery of outdoor learning for young people in the UK. David also has considerable experience of leading charity operations and sits on several external professional groups that include safeguarding advisory panels.

Before joining UK Youth, David was in the military where he led several summer and winter expeditions to various countries. He remains a keen participant in outdoor activities.