Development DirectorThe Elders
Victoria Rae has an extensive track record of not-for-profit strategic leadership in a range of organisations in the UK and US. She has a specialism in international development including with the UK Committee for UNICEF as Director of Communications, a role in which she built relationships across global networks. In her career she has travelled widely including making an awareness film in Rwanda on HIV prevention and supporting a women’s cooperative in Kenya establish a fish farming small business starting with physically digging the fish pond. For two years she chaired the UNICEF international communications forum, with global conferences in Panama City, Geneva and Madrid. She has worked with multinational companies on corporate social responsibility partnerships and with major foundations.
Victoria has an MSc in Voluntary Sector Leadership from CASS Business School, London and has held Board trustee positions in the UK and US. She is a qualified career coach developing voluntary sector leaders and, on a pro-bono basis, has trained disadvantaged women through a workplace preparation programme.
She is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Wilton Park, a position she took up in March 2017. The Wilton Park Board is appointed by the Secretary of State to advise the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the management and finances of Wilton Park. The agency provides an international forum for strategic discussion, organising events in the UK and overseas focused on issues of international security, prosperity and justice and bringing together leading representatives from the worlds of politics, diplomacy, academia, business, civil society, the military and the media.
Victoria joined The Elders in January 2019 as interim Director of Development. The Elders are a group of independent leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007, who use their collective experience and influence for peace, justice and human right worldwide.