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 […]

Adrian Connelly

Adrian joined MENTOR in 2012 and is responsible for the concept, mobilisation, delivery and oversight of MENTOR’s regional programmes. He helps ensure that the right programmes are delivered to meet the needs identified and the requirements of funding partners. Adrian has spent most of his life living and working in Africa. Initially growing up in […]

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 […]

Dr Richard Allan OBE PhD

Richard is a tropical parasitologist and disease control expert with 39 years’ experience in emergency public health and applied research. In Oct 2002, Richard founded The MENTOR Initiative which he led as its CEO until October 2024, when he took up the position as its Chair of the Board of Directors. Since 1988, he has […]