Lynda, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
Chairman
Lynda has been a member of the Lower and Upper Houses of the UK Parliament for over thirty years. Between 1986 and 1997 she was Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, holding responsibility for Africa and the Commonwealth and for Overseas Development. Lynda was made a Life Peer in 1992.
Lynda was the first woman to be appointed an Advisory and then a Non-Executive Director of Unilever, a position she held from 1998 to 2007. She is a Non-Executive Director of Group Five (Pty), a member of the international advisory boards of Lafarge et Cie, Group 5, Merchant Bridge International and Renaissance Capital, and has advised the World Bank for over 10 years.
Lynda is Chairman of Board of the Medicines for Malaria Venture MMV), an Executive Trustee of the Global Leadership Foundation (GLF) and Trustee of the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF), as well as being a patron of a number of charities. Lynda is also co-ordinator of the Honorary International Investment Council of President Yar ‘Adua of Nigeria and a member of similar bodies in Uganda and Tanzania.