Jasmine Whitbread

Jasmine Whitbread
CEO of Save the Children International
Assumed office
2010
CEO of Save the Children UK
In office
2005 – 2010 Salary £234,000 per annum.
Personal details
Born Jasmine Mary Whitbread
(1963-09-01) 1 September 1963
London, England
Citizenship United Kingdom and Switzerland
Spouse(s) Howard Exton-Smith (m. 1994)
Children Two
Education Kneller Girls' School
Alma mater University of Bristol
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Jasmine Mary Whitbread (born 1 September 1963) is an international executive and charity worker. Since 2010, she has been CEO of the charity Save the Children International. She is a non-executive director of the BT Group and the bank Standard Chartered.

Early life and education

Whitbread was born on 1 September 1963.[1] Her mother, Ursula Whitbread, is Swiss and her father, Gerald Whitbread, is English.[1][2] She was educated at Kneller Girls' School, then an all-girls comprehensive school in Twickenham, London.[3] In 1983, she matriculated into the University of Bristol to study English. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree in 1986.[1][2]

She later returned to university study. In 1997, she completed the Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.[4]

Career

Whitbread began her career in marketing rather than the charity sector. From 1986 to 1988, she was a marketing manager at RT2 Computer Services. She then moved to the United States and was director of global marketing at Cortex Corporation.[1][5] From 1990 to 1992, she was in Uganda with the Voluntary Service Overseas and was a management trainer at the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda.[1][6] From 1994 to 1999, she was a managing director of Thomson Financial.[1]

She then joined Oxfam GB, where she was Regional Director for West Africa from 1999 to 2002, then International Director from 2002 to 2005.[1] In 2005, she joined Save the Children UK as Chief Executive Officer (CEO); she is the first woman to head the charity.[1][7] After five years, she was appointed CEO of Save the Children International.[1] She is due to step down from the role on 31 December 2015.[8]

On 19 January 2011, Whitbread was appointed to the board of BT as a non-executive director.[9] On 1 April 2015, she was appointed an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered.[10] She has also served on the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities, which was jointly chaired by Goodluck Jonathan and Jens Stoltenberg and issued recommendations to increase access to and use of 13 essential commodities for women’s and children’s health.[11]

Personal life

In 1994, Whitbread married Howard Exton-Smith.[1] Together, they have two children: one son, Felix, and one daughter, Holly .[1][2]

Whitbread holds British/Swiss dual nationality.[12]

Honours

In 2013, Whitbread was named one of the UK’s 100 most powerful women by BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.[3][13] On 28 January 2014, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree by the University of Bristol.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "WHITBREAD, Jasmine". Who's Who 2015. Oxford University Press. November 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Jasmine Whitbread". Public and Ceremonial Events Office. University of Bristol. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Jasmine Whitbread". Woman's Hour. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Jasmine Whitbread". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Benjamin, Alison (8 November 2006). "Powers of persuasion". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Lynch, Andrew (24 March 2013). "Leading edge: Jasmine Whitbread". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Leach, Andrew (28 September 2008). "I'm making it my business to save the children". This is Money. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Farey-Jones, Daniel. "Jasmine Whitbread to leave Save the Children International". Third Sector. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Jasmine Whitbread". BT Plc. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "Jasmine Whitbread". Standard Chartered. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  11. ↑ Composition of the Commission Life-Saving Commodities Practitioners’ Network.
  12. ↑ "Our CEO, Jasmine Whitbread". Save the Children. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  13. ↑ "Top 100 Powerful Women in the UK Today". Alumni and friends. University of Bristol. 12 February 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
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