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Our Board of Trustees meets formally four times per year. All key decisions, including the allocation of funds for research, are taken at full meetings of the Trustee Board.

Gill Ackers, Chair

Gill Ackers is a Partner at Brunswick, a leading corporate communications consultancy. Gill has extensive experience of corporate positioning, profile raising and reputation management and provides pro bono PR advice to charities. Gill’s teenage daughter has a rare chromosome disorder, the main impacts of which are severe learning difficulties and autism.

John Carey

John Carey is currently Deputy CEO of Adnoc, a newly listed company on the ADX. Prior to this role John was Senior Vice president at BP leading businesses including BP Marketing and Retail in the US, the global BP LPG organisation and the global Castrol businesses. He has also work with Anglo American and Unilever. John recently joined the Autistica board of Trustees in April 2017. John is married to Nichola and has two daughters Grace and Erin and a son Tom

Matt Davis

Matt is a co-owner of integrated creative agency Red Brick Road. He lives in North London and is married with two children. His oldest Isaac is autistic - Matt writes about their autism journey at mysonisaac.net.

Prof Jonathan Green

Prof Green is Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in the University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s Hospitals University NHS Trust and Manchester Biomedical Research Centre.

Prof Dr Hilde Guerts

Hilde is a professor of clinical neuropsychology at the department of psychology of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She is also a professor by special appointment in autism across the lifespan and works as a senior researcher and psychologist for the “Dr. Leo Kannerhuis”. The Dr. Leo Kannerhuis is a mental health care organization focusing on autistic children and adults since 1974. Hilde’s research focuses currently mainly on old age autistic adults; she co-led the first multi-disciplinary guideline of assessment and intervention for autistic adults, and co-founded an academic workplace where autistic led organizations, clinical institutes, and research groups work together in order to merge lived experience with academic knowledge.

Fraser Hardie

Fraser Hardie is Chairman of Teneo in London, a global advisory firm serving CEOs in some of the world’s most iconic businesses. Before that he founded Blue Rubicon, a leading reputation management consultancy operating in London, Singapore, Dubai and Qatar. He has advised Government on communications strategies from climate change to London 2012. He held leadership roles with two FTSE100 companies: head of communications at Powergen and global media spokesman for Rio Tinto. Before joining the Autistica board in 2019 he was a trustee with New Philanthropy Capital and Access Sport. The eldest of his two boys is autistic.

Heather Kleeman

Heather joined our Board in 2018. She is a Consultant in the Leadership Advisory Services team at Spencer Stuart, where she specializes in advising senior leadership teams in all aspects of their talent management strategy, including assessment, culture, hiring, team effectiveness and individual development. Previously, she was Head of Talent at the credit investment fund Park Square Capital and prior to that HR Director of the private equity firm Cinven. She has over twenty years' experience in executive search and talent management within financial services. She is also an accredited executive coach. Heather is married with three children.

Matthew Harris, Honorary Treasurer

Matthew is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) with over twenty years of experience in manufacturing and engineering businesses in the UK and US. In addition to a variety of finance roles, Matthew has been Group Strategy & Risk Director for Costain Group PLC. Matthew is now leading his own training and leadership business focussed on supporting clients’ growth through people development. Matthew is married with one son who is autistic.

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