Dee is a qualified executive coach and fundraising consultant. Prior to setting up her own consultancy, Dee held senior leadership roles in high-value philanthropy and communications in leading UK universities (including King's College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science); domestic and international non-government organisations; and the public sector (National Health Service charities, Department of Health, local government). She is an experienced public speaker, panel member, and chair, who speaks on diversity, inclusion, and equity in fundraising.

As a qualified executive coach, Dee focuses on fundraising professionals and their teams. She specialises in supporting professionals of colour as they navigate their careers and women as they move into new or leadership roles.

Dee has a bachelor's degree from the University of Bristol, a master's degree from University College London, and a professional qualification in marketing (CIM). Dee has been a trustee for CASE Europe and a member of faculty for CASE's Europe Spring Institute in Educational Fundraising in 2022 and 2023.

Margaret Clift is Head of Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Glasgow. She has been a major gift fundraising specialist for two decades, with a career spanning the higher education, culture and voluntary sectors. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, she worked on successful major capital campaigns at National Museums Scotland, the University of Edinburgh and Amnesty International UK.

Margaret has acted as speaker, trainer and panellist at conferences, workshops, training sessions and webinars for CASE, the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, RAISE, Global Arts Summit, and Arts and Business Scotland, and provided fundraising advice to charities, museums and galleries across Scotland. She has also served on the Professional Development Committee for CIOF Scotland. As a member of Advisory Panel for Rogare, The Hartsbrook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy’s 2019 fundraising think tank at the University of Plymouth, she co-authored the Critical Fundraising Report: Scotland (2017).

Margaret won the GLAMi award for most ground-breaking project (Museums and the Web, 2018) and Best Fundraising Campaign over £100,000 at the EMCEEs Arts and Culture Awards for Excellence in Fundraising, 2018. She has been listed in the UK’s Top 25 Most Influential Fundraisers (Fundraising Magazine).

Juan Pablo Garrido is a senior advancement leader with more than 25 years of experience in fundraising and philanthropy across higher education and the non-profit sector in Canada and Spain. He currently serves as Director of Development at UIC Barcelona, where he leads the University’s fundraising and engagement strategy across academic divisions and university clinics. Since joining UIC Barcelona, he has built the Development and Engagement Office and overseen sustained growth in philanthropic support, including multiple principal gifts and successful research, scholarship, and capital initiatives.

Juan Pablo leads UIC Barcelona’s Advisory Board, coordinating its committees and initiatives to strengthen institutional engagement, external relations, and philanthropic impact. He is also a member of CASE Europe’s Regional Council and contributes to the advancement profession as faculty for CASE institutes in educational fundraising.

He holds a Master’s degree in General Management from IESE Business School, as well as Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in History from the Université de Montréal and McGill University. Juan Pablo also holds a Certificate in Fundraising Management from the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University

Steve is a passionate advocate of the power of Education and Philanthropy to transform lives and communities locally and worldwide.  He has held leadership roles for over two decades in renowned organisations that have courageously sought to address inequality and exclusion and his teams have been recognised for their shared success with many prestigious THE, HEIST, IoF and CASE awards.  Notable career highlights include improving vital cancer services for disadvantaged communities at Macmillan Cancer Care, successfully widening access to higher education and the academy for traditionally excluded groups at the Universities of Bristol and Leicester and campaigning to end child poverty as a UK Director at Barnardo’s. 

Steve is now consulting in Advancement and Civic Engagement in the HE and charity sectors and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, a Certified Member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising and has been honoured to serve on the CASE SIEF Faculty since 2020. In his downtime, Steve enjoys his passions for sports, literature, film, friends and family, especially grandparent duties.

Joanna McGarry joined the University of Bristol in 2019 as Assistant Director of the newly established Marketing and Communications team within the Development and Alumni Relations Office. Joanna and her team deliver integrated marketing and communications activity to further the University’s strategic objectives around philanthropy, fundraising and alumni engagement. The team lead on content and channels for Bristol’s mass alumni audience, including the University’s annual alumni awards campaign, its digital communications programme, and its alumni magazine. The team also work closely with DARO colleagues on integrated activity for specific audiences, including new alumni on-boarding, mass fundraising and stewardship, and collateral to support major giving activity.

Prior to her role at the University of Bristol, Joanna worked in marketing, communications, brand and editorial roles at Imperial College London; City, University of London; and the educational publisher Palgrave Macmillan.

Fiona is Fundraising Manager at the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and also a freelance Fundraising & Development Consultant. Fiona was previously the Director of Development at Giggleswick School, where she led the creation and delivery of the school’s first major Development Strategy. Before this, she was the Director of Development at the Grammar School at Leeds, having joined the school from the University of Leeds, where she was the lead on the Student Theme of their first major campaign, “Making a World of Difference”, which successfully raised over £60 million. Fiona has experience with multidimensional campaigns and is particularly skilled in fundraising for bursary and outreach projects. Her roles at GSAL and Giggleswick have had the same focus on the professionalisation of development activity; establishing protocols and procedures, developing events and engagement strategies, and, of course, fundraising using a variety of channels from direct mail to principal giving.

Lisa Williams has worked in the Development and Alumni Relations team at Exeter for over 17 years. During that time, Lisa has held a variety of roles including regular giving, legacy and major gift fundraising. In 2014 Lisa was appointed to the newly created role of Head of Operations and now oversees the prospect research, data and insight, finance and donor relations functions.