Tim Howarth Chief Executive Officer Expand A teacher by trade, Tim has worked in a number of schools and educational organisations in the UK and Australia. In 2009 he took on a senior leadership position responsible for staff performance, development and training. More recently, as an educational consultant, Tim has worked with head teachers and school leaders to develop teaching and leadership capacity in UK schools. Tim first visited Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia in 2006, where, a few years later, the first UWS Community Schools would be developed. Together with his sister Anna, Tim has supported his father Chris Howarth, founder of UWS, to develop the charity. Since 2011 Tim increasingly devoted his time to growing and developing UWS, becoming Chief Operating Officer in 2012, and Chief Executive in 2015.
Fiona Stancombe Finance Director Expand Fiona is an ICAEW qualified Chartered Accountant who joined UWS in 2015 as the Finance Director. She trained as an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Bristol, and worked both in audit and Forensic Accounting in the UK and in Switzerland. Fiona was the Finance Director for an international software company in London which was sold to Experian, before a career break to raise a family. More recently, she was involved with a small charity working in the field of Occupational Therapy before joining United World Schools. Fiona is also the Treasurer of her children’s school PTA and in her spare time is learning to play the piano.
Irahyma Paredes Director of Fundraising Expand Ira is a skilled fundraiser with experience working in national and international organisations. Ira studied Development Economics in Holland and is passionate about helping meaningful projects come to life. Prior to UWS, Ira worked for a national children's charity where she gained expertise in trust and foundation and government funding. As well as leading UWS' fundraising, Ira is a mum of two small boys who keep her very busy when she is out of the office!
Jack Clark Partnerships Director Expand Jack’s role as Partnerships Director is to recruit and support partners for our UWS Community Schools, providing financial sustainability. After university, Jack trained and qualified as a teacher through the Teach First programme, spending two years teaching Citizenship and Geography in an inner-city London Academy. Upon graduating as a Teach First Ambassador Jack moved to South America to help establish an English programme in a rural school in Peru before returning to the UK and working in Leadership Development for the charity Teaching Leaders. Jack began volunteering with UWS in 2013 when he joined the UWS Council before becoming the School Partnership Director in 2014, and Partnerships Director in 2016.