Our team of principals offer an out-of-the-ordinary range of experience and skills, great professional judgment, plus an unflinching commitment to work with clients to realise their public interest and social responsibility goals.
They are backed up by a dedicated staff and a powerful network of professionals, researchers and experts.
Principals:
Ai’s Team
Georgia Lee – Project Manager, Web and Social Media – Georgia is an English Literature graduate of University College London and has recently worked in Kenya at a feeding programme for HIV orphans. As well as working at Ai, she also plays bass in the band, Rose and the Distractions.
Sallie Berriff – Financial Manager - Sallie has long experience of managing the finances of lawyers and for 21 years managed the finances, royalties and concerts of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. She has been the bursar of the Byam Shaw School of Art in London and has worked individually with artists and musicians. As well as managing AI’s finances brilliantly, she dances flamenco.
Ai’s Panel of Experts
Professor Victoria Chick – Emeritus Professor of Economics at University College London, and expert on Keynes, in particular Keynes’s monetary policies. She has published four books: The Theory of Monetary Policy (1973 and 1977); Macroeconomics after Keynes: A Reconsideration of The General Theory (1983; On Money, Method and Keynes: Selected Essays of Victoria Chick (P. Arestis and S.C. Dow, eds.; Macmillan, 1992); and Recent Developments in Post-Keynesian Economics (ed., with P. Arestis; 1992).
Professor Kunibert Raffer – is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Vienna and Senior Associate of the New Economics Foundation. He was a consultant to the UN Industrial Development Organization, the UNDP, the G-24, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Commerce, University of Birmingham.
Professor Anthony Costello is Professor of International Child Health and head of the Centre for International Health and Development at the UCL Institute of Child Health, and Director of the UCL Institute for Global Health. He has expertise in maternal and child health epidemiology and programmes in developing countries, and has contributed papers on health economics, health systems, child development, nutrition and infectious disease.
Robby Kilgore – Creative Director at Nuance. Creator of conversational interfaces for technology leaders such as Ford, Delta, Verizon, General Magic, BMW, Schwab, Dell and Microsoft, Creative Director of the Social Interface Group. Grammy Award winning composer and producer performing live and on numerous records with such household names as Steve Winwood, Mick Jagger, James Taylor, Eric Clapton and Cyndi Lauper.
Arlene Weltman – Founding member of Consumer Action Now (CAN). Vice President at Cinema 5Ltd, Vice President at the National Basketball Association (NBA). Appointed Sports Commissioner of the City of New York. Executive Director and Board Member of The Afterschool All-Stars, founded by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Richard Murphy - is a founder of the Tax Justice Network and director of Tax Research LLP which undertakes work on taxation policy for a wide range of clients including governments, government agencies, commercial organisations, aid agencies and pressure groups in the UK and abroad. He is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and an External Research Fellow at the Tax Research Institute, University of Nottingham. He was included in Accountancy Age’s “Financial Power List for 2006” as one of the 50 most influential names to look out for in that and subsequent years.









