Natasha Parker

Natasha is the Director of Development at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, responsible for fundraising and partnership development for the organisation.

Natasha leads a team who secure income across institutional and bilateral donors, corporate foundations and the private sector, her team also obtain funding through a range of commercial products including bespoke training services. Natasha’s team play a key role in building programme delivery partnerships with leading global organisations, forming consortiums and securing specialist expertise to increase our reach and impact.

Previously, Natasha was Head of Corporate Partnerships at Macmillan Cancer Support, where she was responsible for leading an award-winning team focused on developing and securing shared value partnerships with Boots, Lloyds Banking Group and Aviva, as well as staff fundraising with the UK’s most loved brands including Marks & Spencer and Morrisons. 

Prior to this, Natasha was Deputy Director of Partnerships at Save the Children UK, where her sector leading team was responsible for winning and managing 7 figure partnerships globally, including Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser and GSK, as well as driving consumer brand engagement with Christmas Jumper Day, and raising millions of pounds for humanitarian appeals. Natasha has also held partnership management roles at the British Heart Foundation, and her previous career was at Disney, leading digital brand partnerships across the EMEA region.

Massimo Gibilaro

Massimo Gibilaro is an experienced digital transformation product leader with 20 years of international experience. Based in London UK, he excels in fostering cultural and digital change within regulated industries. His key skills include strategic vision, Agile methodologies, and stakeholder management. Currently, he is the Director of Product and Technology at Thomson Reuters Foundation, where he leads digital product development, technology strategy, and cybersecurity initiatives. He has a history of successful projects and awards, including the Lovie Awards and Imagine Grant from AWS. His previous roles include senior positions at AW Rostamani Group, Al Futtaim Group, Landmark Group, Ladbrokes Coral Group, Post Office Ltd, Samsung Electronics, Sony EMEA, and Dell Computers. He holds a degree in Political and Social Sciences and has completed various professional training programs. Gibilaro is multilingual, with proficiency in English, Italian, Spanish, and other languages.

Yasir Khan

Yasir Khan is Editor-in-Chief of Context. An award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and podcaster, Yasir has spent his 25-year-long career in a wide range of newsrooms including CNN, CBC, Al Jazeera and Euronews. He has also taught multimedia journalism and documentary film production at the American University in Cairo, Northwestern University and the Jordan Media Institute.

Carolina Henriquez-Schmitz

Carolina Henriquez-Schmitz is an international attorney who has spent over a decade working to educate and empower lawyers to be proactive leaders in driving social change. Carolina is the Director of TrustLaw – the global pro bono programme of the Thomson Reuters Foundation– where she works with social impact partners around the world to facilitate free legal support for NGOs and social enterprises, and to develop strategic resources and skill-building opportunities that advance human rights, inclusive economies and media freedom.

Previously, Carolina has worked in academia, private practice and at development institutions.

Jenny Vereker

Jenny Vereker is Global Director of Communications at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Since joining TRF seven years ago, she has grown and led the Communications function, responsible for strategic internal and external communications across the organisation’s international portfolio of work that spans research and product launches to high-profile issue-led campaigns. Her remit also includes media relations and stakeholder engagement. During her tenure, she has overseen the Foundation’s external re-positioning from a small anti-slavery organisation to an international development organisation with a focus on press freedom, responsible business and access to the law.

With a background in journalism, Jenny was previously a national magazine editor on flagship titles at Hearst and Time Warner, and before that, held features editing and news editing roles across a range of media outlets.

Will Church

Will Church is Director of Media Freedom Programmes at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In his 12 years at the Foundation, Will has helped to develop a comprehensive media industry support programme working with journalists, newsrooms and the wider ecosystem, using the Foundation’s combined expertise in media and law.

Previously, as Head of Programmes and a project manager, he has overseen and run a portfolio of projects and strategic relationships in more than 60 countries, particularly in the Global South and emerging economies, with partners ranging from multilateral organisations, foundations and private institutions, to government agencies, NGOs, media companies and journalists.