People -  The 38 Degrees Board

Staff  Volunteers  Members  Board

Gordon Roddick

Chair

Co-founder of The Body Shop International. Active supporter of community and several social enterprises, including founding The Big Issue.

Ben Brandzel

Director of New Media Campaigns and Fundraising for the Democratic Party and Organizing for America (succesor organization to the Obama campaign). Former Advocacy Director of MoveOn, Adviser to GetUp, Campaign Director and Founding Board Member of Avaaz and North Carolina Online Campaign Director for Barack Obama. Consultant to NGOs and progressive political parties globally.

Peter Myers

Co-founder - OneHundredMonths.org. Director - enoughsenough.org. Formerly Special Projects at Greenpeace and The Climate Group. First twelve years of career in corporate finance.

Benedict Southworth

Director of the World Development Movement since September 2005. Former Director of Amnesty International's international Campaign Program, Head of Greenpeace International's global climate campaign and a campaigner for Friends of the Earth in the UK.

Henry Tinsley

Former Chair of Green & Blacks Chocolate. He has been an investor and board member in many businesses, mostly in the food industry. A political activist since he was 18, Henry now spends much of his time engaged in charitable and campaigning activities. He is a trustee of the Carter Centre UK, Technoserve Europe & Article 1.

Gemma Mortensen

Chief Executive of Crisis Action. Worked previously in human rights posts  for the ICC, for the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York and for the European Commission in Geneva and Sudan. She has reported and produced for radio and TV and written on international affairs.

Paul Hilder

Campaigns Director of AVAAZ.org, and Co-Founder of international affairs website openDemocracy.net. Paul has worked on conflict resolution, democracy and civil society organising in the UK, the Middle East and around the world including at the Young Foundation. He is the author of Contentious Citizens (2007), a study of people-powered campaigning in the UK.

IN MEMORY

Anita Roddick (1942-2007)

We would like to acknowledge that the development of 38 Degrees comes out of the spirit of and owes a great deal to the legacy of Dame Anita Roddick.