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Rana Zincir Celal

EIIP Director

Rana brings to EIIP over 20 years of global experience working in philanthropy, social investment and civil society.

She brings a wealth of insight and expertise from her work across multiple geographies, disciplines and domains, including academia, activism, philanthropy, and cultural diplomacy. Along with her role as Senior Associate at EIIP, Rana currently advises the Robert Bosch Stiftung on its program focused on reducing inequalities through intersectional practice and is a Visiting Fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. She serves on the boards of the European Cultural Foundation and Greenpeace Mediterranean and is a trustee of Greenpeace International. Most recently, Rana was the founding Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity program at LSE. She has held positions with the Ford Foundation (US), Domini Impact Investments (US), Columbia Global Centers (Turkey) and and the Home for Cooperation (Cyprus). She holds an undergraduate degree in economics and political science from Columbia University and a post-graduate degree in development from LSE. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and CUNY’s Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy Fellowship.

Ceri Goddard MBE

EIIP Associate Director

Ceri was the founder Director of EIIP between 2018 - 2022, becoming an associate Director 2022 to pursue wider inequality impact work in grants and philanthropy alongside EIIP. Ceri previously pioneered new gender, and wider equality, innovation and investment programmes as a Director at the Young Foundation and was CEO of the UK’s Fawcett Society. Prior to this, as a Director at the British Institute of Human Rights she led a range of national policy and practice partnerships focused on bringing human rights to life in areas such as health and social care, education, tackling poverty and strengthening the role of civil society sector in social change. This work drew significantly on her previous experience leading grant, research and capacity building programmes, concerned with increasing the power and influence of traditionally marginalised communities in policy making, for Irelands Combat Poverty Agenda and cross border Peace and Reconciliation programme.

She is Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and The Young Foundation and an associate of the Sheila Mckechnie Foundation. In 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University for public service and innovation in equality, human rights and social justice. In 2021 she received an MBE for services to social justice.