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Senior Leadership Team

Judith Bijeri

Assistant Director of Marketing

Louisa Searle

Director of Education

Louisa began her career as a secondary school teacher in North London as part of the Teach First programme. She left the classroom in 2014 to co-found and then lead a youth philanthropy/social action charity before joining The ESU in June 2024.

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Charles Byrne

Director General

Charles Byrne joined the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth as Director-General in March 2024, bringing a lifelong passion for oracy and a broad range of valuable skills and experience. As DG, Charles also acts as the Secretary-General to the International Council of the ESU.

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Nathan Strong

Chief Operating Officer

Nathan joins the ESU with over 20 years’ experience working in the public and charity sectors, where he has been responsible for advising organisations on strategy development and corporate governance.

nathan.strong@esu.org

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Consola Evans

Director of Global Engagement

Consola is an external relations and membership expert. She is experienced in building long-term and high profile corporate and government partnerships for membership organisations as well as creating new commercial opportunities in the private and public sector.

consola.evans@esu.org

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Gabriella Tamas

Director of Finance and Corporate Services

Neeta Patel

Head of Human Resources

As a Head of Human Resources (Associate CIPD) with over 20 years of HR generalist experience, Neeta supports the ESUs core values and goals with her experience and enthusiasm to deliver outstanding customer service to our business stakeholders and employees.

neeta.patel@esu.org

020 7529 1552

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Cait Lees

Assistant Director of Education

Cait comes to the ESU with a wealth of experience in education, both here in the UK, and internationally in both China and Morocco.

cait.lees@esu.org

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