OUR team
Ceri Goddard
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.