Dolapo Fakuade
Dr Dolapo Fakuade (Dolas) is a risk and security expert with proficient knowledge in hazard and emergency management and has received several awards for her contribution to public security and emergency response agencies throughout the UK, USA, New Zealand, Singapore and Australia. She is currently a UNESCO ‘Looking Beyond Disaster’ ambassador and has been active in the disaster management sector since 2010. She is also a UNITAR and UNFPA consultant helping the United Nations evaluate community projects and learning programme quality in different countries.
Dolas has a world class knowledge of disasters, with postgraduate degrees from the UK and New Zealand and is passionate about providing the next generation of security and safety experts with first-class opportunities, experience, and career prospects. She is presently the Programme Director of Intelligence, Security and Disaster Management at the University of Derby where she leads a series of modules and has been nominated for ‘personal academic tutor of the year’ and ‘lecturer of the year’ respectively. Dr Dolapo has leadership and strategic responsibilities in UK and US universities as well as in EU business school.
Dolas has a passion for quality education and lifelong learning (SDG4), youth empowerment and career development. She values any networking opportunity and civic engagement, her collegiality, crisis management, team management, strategic thinking and influence are some of the assets she brings to her role as a member.
Board of Trustees
Richard Jones
Richard started his career as a secondary school teacher, before working for a local authority. He then joined the National College for School Leadership where he worked on their leadership development programmes. He transferred into the Department for Education in 2015 and currently works in the Department’s Schools Commercial Team, supporting schools and trusts to get the best value from their non-staff spend.
He was a staff governor at the start of his career and was a parent governor at his children’s primary school in Nottinghamshire, where he also served as Chair of Governors, and Chair of a collaboration group of the schools linked to his local secondary school trust. He has three children, two at university and one at 6th form college in Nottingham.
He was appointed to the Trust Board in March 2023 and is link trustee for Friesland School and a member of the Trust Finance Committee.