Liam Fisher-Jones

Business adviser, Explorer, Foodie, Idea generator, Parent, Promoter

Liam currently serves as Chief Development Officer for the African Leadership Group. As well as leading fundraising and development activity across the Group, he manages ALG’s principal partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. Liam has lived in East Africa (previously in Uganda, now in Kenya) for the last decade and has been working on the continent the last twenty years. He has commissioned and built a new eco-school; rebuilt a cottage hospital in Zanzibar; and set up a College of Physicians for East and Southern Africa. He has supported AMREF Health Africa (the continent’s largest homegrown health organisation) for 15+ years. He currently sits on the International Board and chairs the Board’s Global Communications and Fundraising Committee. Liam has previously served as Director of Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company and London School of Economics. He helped build More Partnership into the leading European consulting firm for fundraising, advising the likes of University of Oxford, English National Ballet, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, SOAS and the Royal Society of Literature.

Anything that involves travelling on two wheels. Bicycles and motorcycles. But preferably bicycles. I have a hand-built bamboo bike from Zambia; a couple of steel frames from Somerset. An enduro bike, a road bike, an XC bike, two hardtails. In fact, I should set up a bicycle rental firm here in Nairobi.

Simple acts of gratitude. A nod of the head, an acknowledgement. A common courtesy.

Board coaching, Fundraising, Organisational development / strategy

Professional provocateur-ing.