The Team at Prospero
Sita Schutt
Founding Director of Prospero
After working for 5 years as a lecturer in English in the UK and Turkey,
Sita volunteered for a creative literacy programme working with adolescent
girls in Rajasthan, India. Since then she has researched and visited a range
of development projects in Thailand, Africa and India and worked in an advisory
capacity helping donors to make choices about international grassroots organisations.
She founded Prospero in 2007 following a growing interest in a donor recommendation
service.
Sita read English at Oxford and then obtained her PhD from King's
College, London.
Anna-Louisa Psarras
Consultant
Anna-Louisa has 8 years experience in the third sector. She has worked
on issues including the environment, human rights, election monitoring and
the rule of law, community development and crisis response. Her work has taken
her to Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Before joining Prospero, Anna-Louisa
was the Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Benefit Foundation. Anna-Louisa
graduated from Edinburgh University in 2001 with an MA (Hons) in Social
Anthropology and Religious Studies.
Bridget Franklin
Consultant
Bridget Franklin is a consultant with 15 years of experience in the UK
charity sector. She has been a fundraiser specialising in Trusts and Major
Gifts and most recently was Charity Director of ShareGift, a grant-making
charity specialising in share donations, where she ran the charity's grants
programme of approximately £2 million.
Bridget has an MA in Classics from Cambridge University.
Sandra Lauckner-Rothschild
Researcher and event organiser
Sandra's area of specialisation is in international development and her
experience ranges from the academic to hands-on field work, including children's
charities in Guatemala and South Africa. She was also assistant to the Counselor
of Development Co-operation at the German Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.
She holds a Masters in Social Anthropology and Sociology from the University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA and Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany.
Board of Directors
Alicia Eastman
Alicia is a partner at Asia Pacific Capital, manager of the GE Asia
Pacific Capital Technology Fund and Asia Pacific Capital Fund II, a
private equity fund seeded by BNP Paribas and focused on growth
investments in Asia. She is also Managing Director of MAP Capital, a
joint venture with the Modern Industrial Investment Group in Saudi
Arabia. Previously, she led international efforts at the Global
Strategy and Alliances department of Elan Pharmaceuticals and was Vice
President of Prudential's Asia Infrastructure Mezzanine Capital Fund
(Franklin Templeton). She has held international strategy and
investment positions at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Lend Lease, and
AirTouch (Vodafone). Alicia is also on the Board of One Ummah, a
Foundation dedicated to building schools and health facilities in
developing Asia and the Middle East. She holds a BS in Economics from
the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from
the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Stefan Meigh
Stefan is the founder and director of Action Challenge, a company that organises worldwide charity fundraising and corporate teambuilding events. A keen mountaineer, cyclist and traveller, he spends as much time as possible exploring the more extreme parts of the world. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is passionate about sustainable development, eco-tourism and the environment.