Rachel Searle

Change agent, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Filmmaker, Idea generator, Photographer, Producer, Project manager, Social entrepreneur, Writer/Editor

In March 2008 I conceived and established Humanity Productions, a nascent media community aiming to support positive global change through creative media and capacity development. This is a virtual network of film-makers, photographers, artists and educators who are committed to conveying what it is to be positively human in many of the most extreme situations facing ordinary people in the world today, both at home and abroad. Together with the people who live such experience, we create documentary, photography and music. We have no employees. We have to date worked on diverse projects in Gaza, Chad, DRC, the UK, Belgium and South Africa. I have personally conceived and produced a range of projects, some of which are at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3568976/ & http://www.humanityproductions.tv CAREER TO DATE: May 2010-ongoing Research and writing on Ethical Business for Deloitte Global (DTT) 2008-April 2010 Interim Management, Freelance Research & Consultancy: Set-up and managed Humanitarian Programme for RedR, Haiti (www.redr.org.uk) Developed language, internal communications strategy and recommendations to effect strategic and conceptual change from Humanitarian Relief to Peacebuilding for CORD, Chad (www.cord.org.uk) Interim Management, Security recommendations, consultancy support, Tearfund, North Sudan (www.tearfund.org) Research on Angolan media environment for IREX (MSI), Angola (www.irex.org) Design of strategic change process & relationship building with TPA, SFCG, Angola (www.sfcg.org) 2007-8 Director of Operations & Executive Producer, SALT www.salt.tv| www.saltpictures.tv Developed charitable film-making opportunities for Salt, inc. conception & design of documentary projects Designed strategic planning process (corporate advertising & charitable) Supervised & redesigned company financial management systems and controls 2005-7 CEO, Feed the Minds www.feedtheminds.org| www.peacemakers.tv Directed charity and associated company with mandate to support communications and education projects for development and peace, spanning the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe Designed and led strategic change process resulting in refocused mandate, rebranding, internal restructuring, systems overhaul, and 38% increase in income Produced film and multi-media output for development and peacebuilding, including the conception, design, management, production and launch of the Peacemakers project after the 07/07 bombings, of Bethlehem: No Room For Peace? a documentary for ITV1, and of other communications projects to effect positive global change. Example charity side AR here: http://www.feedtheminds.org/annual-review07/Annual_review_WEB.pdf 2004-5 Head of International Programmes, CORD www.cord.org uk Directed charity’s worldwide operations across Africa, Asia & Eastern Europe. CORD then specialised in education and cultural programmes for communities affected by conflict, including Zambia, DRC, Burundi, Chad Designed and led process of successful strategic change within the International Programmes Group, streamlining and professionalising operations, refocusing strategy, defining criteria for intervention in new countries, restructuring the department, extending and diversifying our donor base to increase income Launched new multi-million-euro ECHO/UN-funded relief programme in Chad during Darfur Crisis, 2004 1999-2003 International Programmes Work Various based in the UK and overseas including for Albania (Kosovo), Angola, DRCongo, Jordan, Southern Africa; (Oxfam GB, Merlin, CAFOD, Medair, Rights & Humanity, training with MSF) 1998-1999 Senior Consultant, Cambridge Pharma Consultancy Ltd www.cambridge-pharma.com Consultant in the health economics division of a Cambridge-based boutique management consultancy and business advisory firm specialising in pharmaceuticals and health care 1995-1998 Director, European Research Office, Decision Resources, Inc www.decisionresources.com Established and Directed the European Research Office in London for Waltham (MA)-based international market business advisory firm Member of core management group, responsible and accountable for all strategic, financial and operational planning and management of European research business (tailored and multi-client projects) Designed, budgeted, directed and delivered multi-country projects involving qualitative and quantitative research & in-depth analysis, supervising international staff and presenting results and recommendations to clients, including Glaxo Wellcome, SmithKline Beecham, Knoll Boots (as they were then) Authored in-depth reports including analysis of European healthcare practice, unmet need across a range of clinical conditions, characterisation of pharmaceutical and healthcare markets in Europe and comparison of healthcare operating environments. Personally conducted hundreds of consultations and face to face interviews, group discussions,

Global change through Academia, Applied Ethics, Art, Business, Consultancy, Film & Media for just, negotiated peace where there is conflict & for economic development where there is structural poverty

From the grass-roots work of humanitarians and peacemakers, working at the most gritty extremes of human experience, we know that it is not the big theories about ‘the irreducible value of human life’ that make people from very different walks of life start caring about each other’s wellbeing. Rather, it’s the ordinary connections of family and friends, familiar activities and feelings, which bridge the gaps in empathy and imagination. Film can be used to challenge misrepresentations and to discover truth. Through allowing us to be moved and opened up by images and sounds, drawing us into stories of people far away who inhabit worlds of sweet stalls and dinner-time, groceries and soccer games, film can stretch our sense of our own community beyond our natural affiliations of culture, religion and nation. We can relate to these day to day things. We can relate to popping down to the corner shop to buy a bag of sugar.

Ethics, Film, Globalisation, human development, Ideas, Imagining, Media & Culture, Photography, Research

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