Jasmine Whitbread
Jasmine Whitbread | |
|---|---|
| CEO of Save the Children International | |
| Assumed office 2010 | |
| CEO of Save the Children UK | |
| In office 2005 – 2010 Salary £234,000 per annum. | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jasmine Mary Whitbread 1 September 1963 London, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom and Switzerland |
| Spouse |
Howard Exton-Smith (m. 1994) |
| Children | Two |
| Education | Kneller Girls' School |
| Alma mater | University of Bristol Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Jasmine Mary Whitbread (born 1 September 1963) is an international executive and charity worker. Since 2010, she has been CEO of the charity Save the Children International. She is a non-executive director of the BT Group and the bank Standard Chartered.
Early life and education
Whitbread was born on 1 September 1963.[1] Her mother, Ursula Whitbread, is Swiss and her father, Gerald Whitbread, is English.[1][2] She was educated at Kneller Girls' School, then an all-girls comprehensive school in Twickenham, London.[3] In 1983, she matriculated into the University of Bristol to study English. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree in 1986.[1][2]
She later returned to university study. In 1997, she completed the Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.[4]
Career
Whitbread began her career in marketing rather than the charity sector. From 1986 to 1988, she was a marketing manager at RT2 Computer Services. She then moved to the United States and was director of global marketing at Cortex Corporation.[1][5] From 1990 to 1992, she was in Uganda with the Voluntary Service Overseas and was a management trainer at the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda.[1][6] From 1994 to 1999, she was a managing director of Thomson Financial.[1]
She then joined Oxfam GB, where she was Regional Director for West Africa from 1999 to 2002, then International Director from 2002 to 2005.[1] In 2005, she joined Save the Children UK as Chief Executive Officer (CEO); she is the first woman to head the charity.[1][7] After five years, she was appointed CEO of Save the Children International.[1] She is due to step down from the role on 31 December 2015.[8]
On 19 January 2011, Whitbread was appointed to the board of BT as a non-executive director.[9] On 1 April 2015, she was appointed an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered.[10] She has also served on the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities, which was jointly chaired by Goodluck Jonathan and Jens Stoltenberg and issued recommendations to increase access to and use of 13 essential commodities for women’s and children’s health.[11]
Personal life
In 1994, Whitbread married Howard Exton-Smith.[1] Together, they have two children: one son, Felix, and one daughter, Holly .[1][2]
Whitbread holds British/Swiss dual nationality.[12]
Honours
In 2013, Whitbread was named one of the UK’s 100 most powerful women by BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.[3][13] On 28 January 2014, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree by the University of Bristol.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "WHITBREAD, Jasmine". Who's Who 2015. Oxford University Press. November 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Jasmine Whitbread". Public and Ceremonial Events Office. University of Bristol. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Jasmine Whitbread". Woman's Hour. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ "Jasmine Whitbread". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ Benjamin, Alison (8 November 2006). "Powers of persuasion". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ Lynch, Andrew (24 March 2013). "Leading edge: Jasmine Whitbread". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ Leach, Andrew (28 September 2008). "I'm making it my business to save the children". This is Money. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ Farey-Jones, Daniel. "Jasmine Whitbread to leave Save the Children International". Third Sector. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ "Jasmine Whitbread". BT Plc. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ "Jasmine Whitbread". Standard Chartered. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ Composition of the Commission Life-Saving Commodities Practitioners’ Network.
- ^ "Our CEO, Jasmine Whitbread". Save the Children. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ "Top 100 Powerful Women in the UK Today". Alumni and friends. University of Bristol. 12 February 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2015.