Who's Who in Christian Aid Ireland? Here we introduce the team
Margaret Boden, chief executive
Margaret Boden has been chief executive of Christian Aid Ireland since 1998. She was Northern Ireland coordinator and Republic of Ireland coordinator with Christian Aid prior to 1998. A one-time associate lecturer with the Open University in International Studies, she was also previously a fundraising officer for British Epilepsy, a social worker in Coleraine and company director in a family business.
John Moffett, head of programme development
John Moffett joined the Christian Aid Ireland team in June 2008. John oversees the programme development unit in Dublin and is responsible for managing Irish Aid support to seven of Christian Aid’s programme countries in Africa and South America. John has worked in the development sector for fourteen years, supporting long term development programmes and technical assistance consultancies in Africa and central and eastern Europe.
Deborah Doherty, church and community manager
Deborah worked for the church for 13 years before joining Christian Aid full time in 1999. She had previously been involved in fundraising for Christian Aid following time spent in Kenya during her gap year.
Gillian Laney, head of finance
Gillian worked for Deloitte and the National Health Service prior to joining Christian Aid Ireland in 2007. She leads on both financial and business systems matters.
Adrian Horsman, communications & media manager
Adrian was a broadcast journalist for 25 years before joining Christian Aid Ireland in 2005. In between travelling around Africa, he was BBC Northern Ireland’s Dublin correspondent and later TV3 Ireland’s Belfast correspondent.
Sorley McCaughey, advocacy & policy officer
Sorley is responsible for representing Christian Aid's global policy positions to the Irish government, policy makers and the media in Ireland. His role is to ensure that Christian Aid can influence Irish policies to bring about positive developmental impact. Sorley has worked extensively on governance and anti corruption issues in the middle east and Africa. Previous to joining Christian Aid, he worked with the United Nations Development Programme and as a consultant on Public Sector Reform to the Norwegian Government’s overseas aid agency.
Florence Mutesasira, communications & media officer
Florence worked for a public relations consultancy in Ireland for four years before joining Christian Aid Ireland. She previously worked in Uganda for the International Law Institute and the Sustainable Development Centre - an environmental research consultancy.
Peter Byrne, churches liaison and development officer
Peter is responsible for supporting Christian Aid’s sponsoring churches and schools, and managing volunteer fundraisers in the western, central, eastern and northern counties of the Republic of Ireland. He is a licensed reader in Dublin and Glendalough diocese and previously worked at University College Dublin and as a pastoral assistant in the city.
Andrew Coleman, south west coordinator
Andrew is responsible for coordinating Christian Aid’s work in south west Ireland. He previously worked part-time for Christian Aid in Cork. He is a member of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland and the Diocesan Council of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
Tendai Madondo, programme development officer
Tendai is responsible for ensuring that the Christian Aid/Irish Aid MAPS programme includes a strong thread of action to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS, gender inequality and violence against women. She has over ten years’ experience working on HIV/AIDS and on gender support, care, training and policy in Zimbabwe and Ireland.
Alix Tiernan, monitoring & evaluation programme officer
Alix joined Christian Aid Ireland in December 2008, to provide support to the Christian Aid country programmes receiving funding from the Irish Aid MAPS programme in the areas of monitoring and evaluation, and programme learning. She is also part of the Christian Aid-wide team providing quality support for accountability and learning. Alix has been working with NGOs in development for over 15 years, in Mozambique, Rwanda, Bosnia and in Ireland, initially in agricultural development, and later in programme quality.
