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Rana Zincir Celal
EIIP Co-Director
Rana brings over twenty years of global experience advancing social justice from distinct vantage points in philanthropy, academia, social impact investment and civil society.
She offers specialist knowledge of inequalities and the role that philanthropy, impact investing and their associated infrastructure can play in reducing (or exacerbating) it, as well as extensive experience with the design and delivery of learning programmes on these topics.
Alongside leading the Equality Impact Investing Project with Ceri, she provides strategic support to philanthropic organisations and impact investors on how they can more effectively tackle inequalities. Among her recent engagements include working with Robert Bosch Stiftung to design and deliver a flagship programme on reducing inequalities through intersectional practice, Lankelly Chase Foundation to explore possibilities for closer alignment between investments and social movements, the Ubele Initiative to understand the infrastructure needs for anti-racist activism and Philea, the membership body for European foundations, to develop "Philanthropy and Equality: A Framework for Sharing Power and Addressing Inequalities". She currently serves on the board of the European Cultural Foundation and on the Impact Council of Tomorrow, a sustainable banking platform based in Germany.
Rana has held positions with the LSE’s International Inequality Institute, the Ford Foundation, Domini Impact Investments, Columbia Global Centers | Turkey and the Home for Cooperation in Cyprus, whilst also serving as a trustee of Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Mediterranean.
Ceri Goddard MBE
EIIP Co-Director
Ceri is the founder Director of EIIP, having previously pioneered new gender, and wider equality, innovation and investment programmes as a Director at the Young Foundation. Prior to this she was CEO of the UK’s Fawcett Society and a Director at the British Institute of Human Rights where 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 Ireland’s Combat Poverty Agency and cross-border Peace and Reconciliation programme. Her early career was spent in place-based community development with focus on building the capacity and influence of organisations led by and working for people and communities facing discrimination and inequality.
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.