Our Board
Meet the board that governs Population Matters!
Their responsibilities include developing and reviewing strategy; monitoring performance; setting values, policies, and standards; ensuring adherence to aims, good governance, proper risk management; and compliance with legal requirements and obligations to stakeholders.
The Board
Chair, Sara Parkin
Sara is the principal associate at the Sustainability Literacy Project, and has campaigned and taught on sustainability for more than 40 years. She was a founder-director of Forum for the Future, alongside PM President Jonathon Porritt.
Simone Filippini
As a senior Dutch diplomat, Ambassador Filippini served as Head of the Gender, SRHR and Women’s Rights department in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Consul-General for the Southeastern United States and Dutch Caribbean, and Ambassador to North Macedonia. In January 2023, she started a new role as Chairperson of the Dutch International Commission for social and environmental Impact Assessment.
Pip Hayes
A semi-retired GP in Devon, Pip was a member of the PM board previously and has only recently rejoined it. She is also a Dunsford Wildlife Warden and a Parish Councillor, and she continues to work as an out-of-hours GP. She was inspired to join Population Matters after meeting our patron Prof John Guillebaud at a family planning training event.
Lisa Mitchell
Lisa is a qualified accountant and managing director with responsibility for finance and operations at a niche consultancy business. She has previously been a non-executive director in the charity sector and has led finance operations teams for over 20 years in professional services firms, PWC and Arthur Andersen.
Vicky Poll
Vicky has always been passionate about creating environments for life to thrive and studied genetics at UCL to better understand our foundations and the interplay between nature and nurture. Since then, her career has been focussed on people and organisation development (OD), with roles in talent, learning and OD across a number of different sectors including not for profit, defence, energy and healthcare. She’s always loved the outdoor environment and is an enthusiastic gardener, as well as a keen sailor, climber, skier and walker.
