People

People

IFCO has completed a major governance review which has created a revised constitution including a framework for elections.  A new Steering Committee (formerly “Steering Group”) was elected in April 2026.

Steering Committee (2026)

David N Jones (Chair, Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work)

Bishakha Mukerjee (Vice Chair, The Commonwealth Association)

Sneh Aurora (Secretary, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative)

Garry Carter (Treasurer, The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers)

Ann Keeling (CommonAge)

Arif Zaman (Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network)

Helen Jones (Council for Education in the Commonwealth)

Jane Samuels (Commonwealth Human Ecology Council)

Judith Diment (Rotary International)

Nicholas Watts (Commonwealth Association of Museums)

Owen Tudor (Commonwealth Trade Union Group)

Pat Dale (Soroptimists International)

Richard Rieser (Commonwealth Disabled People’s Forum)

Rose Anne Cuschieri (Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management)

Stelios Foteinopoulos (Commonwealth Equality Network)

Yinglen Butt (Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation)

 

Steering Group (2019 – 2026)

Sneh Aurora, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)

Judith Diment, The Commonwealth Rotary

Anna Guttman, The Commonwealth Association for Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS)

Clive Harridge, Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP)

David N Jones, Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work (COSW)

Helen Jones, Council for Education in the Commonwealth (CEC)

Kathleen McCourt, Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation (CNMF)

Jackie Middleton, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)

Bishakha Mukherjee, The Commonwealth Association (COMASSOC)

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, The Commonwealth Equality Network (TCEN)
(alternate: Jesse Sperling)

Ann Ramsden, Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM)
(alternate: Mrinalini Venkateswaran)

Victoria Rutter, Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association (CPA)

Jane Samuels (Commonwealth Human Ecology Council) (2025-6)

Owen Tudor, Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG)

Nicholas Watts , Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS)  (Chair)

Arif Zaman, Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network (CBWN)

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