ICF Board of Trustees

Neville Isdell, ICF Co-Chair and Chair of the Board, is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company. Prior to this he served in many senior roles including Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages PLC in Great Britain from 1998 to 2000. He is the Vice Chairman of the World Wildlife Fund US and serves on the Board of Directors of General Motors.

Benjamin Mkapa, ICF Co-Chair and Chair of International Relations, was President of Tanzania from 1995 to 2005. He was previously Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Minister for Information and Culture and Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was also a member of the Commission for Africa.

Johannes-Jürgen Bernsen served on DEG, German Investment and Development Corporation, for more than 30 years in various functions, including seven years as the Managing Director.

Lynda Chalker is a UK politician with more than 30 years of experience in Africa. She served for 12 years as UK Minister for Africa and 8 years as Minister for Overseas Development. She now chairs Pasco Risk Management Ltd., has been a Board Member of Group Five Construction Pty in South Africa for 10 years, and is an independent adviser on Africa, investment and development through her company Africa Matters Ltd.

Sam Jonah, is the Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital, past Executive President of AngloGold Ashanti. He is a Non-Executive Director of Vodafone Ltd and the Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

William Kalema is the former Chairman of the Boards of the Uganda Investment Authority and Uganda Breweries. He also chairs a number of charitable institutions in East Africa and was a member of the Commission for Africa.

Nkosana Moyo is the Executive Chairman of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies and the former Vice-President and Chief Operations Officer of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB). He has held senior positions at IFC (World Bank Group), Actis and was Minister of Industry and International Trade for Zimbabwe.

Dipak Patel is a former Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry in the Zambia government. He was also Chair Coordinator of the Least Developed Countries World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations in 2005.

Linah Mohohlo is the Governor of the Bank of Botswana. In her capacity as Botswana’s representative in the Board of the International Monetary Fund, she has served in the IMFC where she represented the Africa Group 1 Constituency. She is a member of the Africa Progress Panel, Investment Committee of the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund and served as a member in the Commission for Africa.

Wolfgang Kroh served in KfW, the German policy and development bank, in various regional and managerial functions for 38 years. Currently he chairs REGMIFA, the Micro and SME Investment Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa.