Dr Giles Cattermole

Giles is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Princess Royal University Hospital, King’s College Hospital NHS Trust. He studied medicine at Oxford and trained as a specialist in Emergency Medicine (EM) in Wales. While a trainee, he served 10 years in the Army Reserve and obtained diplomas in prehospital care and the medical care of catastrophes. He […]

Sergio Lopes

Sergio joined MENTOR in 2013 and has been managing public health programmes for more than 15 years covering areas such as malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases, operational research and humanitarian responses throughout Africa, Asia and South America. He held the post of Deputy Director since May 2023 until his appointment as CEO in October 2024. Sergio holds […]

Dr Linda Mobula, MD, MPH

Linda brings a wealth of relevant experience and highly reputable expertise to the MENTOR board. She has held various senior positions as a health specialist, humanitarian advisor and Chief Medical Officer.  She was an ambassador for USAID and OFDA at UN cluster meetings and has worked with a range of organisations from the World Bank […]

Gareth Williams

Gareth brings valuable experience to the board and helped MENTOR during our transition to a new financial system. He works as an independent management consultant providing advisory and programme management support in organisational change, service transformation projects and financial management across a variety of sectors and developed over 25 years in the private and international […]

Dr Darvin Scott Smith

Scott grew up in Boulder Colorado and attended medical school at the University of Colorado. He went to public health school at Harvard University where an interest in Tropical Public Health was further developed, leading to a year-long study as a Fulbright Scholar in Cali Colombia. Here he studied improved diagnostic technologies to understand the […]

Richard Allan OBE

Richard founded MENTOR in 2002 to provide specialist operational and technical support to countries in a humanitarian emergency, with the aim of controlling and preventing diseases such as malaria, neglected tropical diseases and other vector-borne and diarrhoeal diseases.  He holds responsibility for the overarching strategy and direction of the organisation, representing MENTOR at the highest […]