Our people
Rizwana Hamid
Filmmaker and Director, Centre for Media Monitoring
With over 30 years’ experience as a producer and director for the BBC, Channel 4 and other international broadcasters, Rizwana’s films have won awards, been used as evidence in internal enquiries, and influenced policy change.
Felicia Barrow
Finance Services and Business Support Manager
Felicia is passionate about our organisation and a gifted communicator, with expertise in operations, policy development and implementation, change management and frontline service delivery for the private, public, and charity and not-for-profit sectors. She is a Foundation Chartered Manager (fCMgr) in Management and Leadership.
Kate Hainsworth
Consultant Interim CEO and advisor to charity boards
Kate is an experienced CEO, skilled in managing non-profit organisations – especially in the arts and local community activity – and rooted in her home region of Leeds, Bradford and West Yorkshire.
Liza Finlay
Senior policy professional
Sameer Bakshi
Chief Technology Officer, Group Treasury Technology, UBS
Sameer is a pioneering senior technologist with more than 20 years’ IT experience identifying, qualifying and implementing enabling technologies and enterprise systems that facilitate business processes and strategic objectives.
Gee Cook
CEO of two Multi Academy Trusts and New Routes Integration
Gee has spent the past two decades working within primary schools and from being a class teacher, she rose through various senior leadership positions to become CEO of two primary school MATs. Gee is currently the Chief Executive Officer of New Routes Integration which runs a range of programmes for refugees to meet people and learn new skills.
Charlie Curtis
Entrepreneur, corporate advisor, and business school lecturer
Charlie combines the practical experience of building a business with deep understanding of the commercial and operational complexities faced by today’s business leaders. He has advised hundreds of corporate innovators, co-founded of two University of Oxford deep-tech spin-outs, and is an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Jonathan Retter
Managing Director, UBS Investment Bank
Jonathan has over 22 years of Investment Banking experience, of which the last 12 years have been with UBS.
Jessica Redmond
Jess was a Senior Researcher at The Young Foundation, 2022-25. They were previously a policymaker at the Bank of England, held roles in government, policy research, and education, and explored youth unemployment and educational inequality as part of the Year Here Social Innovation Fellowship.
Charlotte Healy
Head of Social Business and Innovation
Charlotte’s background is working as an Economic Development Programme Manager in Local Government. She loves all things social enterprise and is interested in how we can use social innovation to create a more equal society.
Jennifer Clayton
Innovation Practitioner
Jen’s background is in designing and delivering support and scaling initiatives for social innovators and entrepreneurs. Before joining The Young Foundation, she held integral roles in grant management delivery, challenge prize design, and business mentor brokering at UnLtd and Nesta.
Amelia Clayton
Senior Researcher
After completing her masters in sociology, Amelia joined The Young Foundation as a research officer and was promoted to Senior Researcher in 2025. Amelia has a passion for uplifting marginalised voices, especially among disabled and chronically ill communities, and in fringe subcultures.
