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Our Advisory Board
Advocacy International has an Advisory Board made up of distinguished individuals, who have all played a key role in supporting the economies of low income countries.
Prof. Kunibert Raffer is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Vienna, and the distinguished author of numerous books and articles. He is an expert on the international financial system, and has worked in tandem with Ann Pettifor on reforms to the international financial architecture, in particular his proposal for an international insolvency framework for resolving sovereign debt crises. See http://homepage.univie.ac.at/kunibert.raffer/
Galahad Clark is a director of Terra-plana and founder of United Nude shoe companies
http://www.terra-plana.co.uk/tp_contact_story.htm#tp_4. Born in 1975, he obtained an honors degree in Chinese and Anthropology from the University of North Carolina. He worked in China between 1999 and 2001, before setting up United Nude. He founded Students for Students International which encourages students to raise money for educational scholarships in Africa; is a member of the JAC Trust, and a member of the Ethical Fashion Forum and UK Government-led Sustainable Design Initiative.
Ian Marks is a successful businessman and distinguished philanthropist. He read economics at Cambridge University 1952-1954 before joining the family firm Trebor, a manufacturer of sweets around the world. As Chairman and Chief Executive he increased turnover from £3m to over £300m before the family decided to sell the company to Cadbury.
While at Trebor he served as President of the confectionary trade association and then served as Chairman of the Environmental Committee for the whole of the UK Food Industry.
Since leaving Trebor in 1989 he has been Chairman of The Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health, and Chairman of the Essex Community Foundation. In addition he has focused on leading edge charitable projects including debt cancellation for Africa and the seeding of the award-winning Millennium project for building bicycle tracks around the UK. He has a very keen interest in the need for a proper balance of trace nutrition for good health.
In 2005 The University of Essex conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate for services to Charity.
