The London office serves as a hub for both European and International projects including the See Now campaign to end avoidable blindness, the Help Britain Breathe initiative, and a European digital rights campaign.
We partner with some of the leading non-profits and foundations including the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, WaterAid, Oxfam, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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As Senior Campaign Director, and co-lead of the Purpose Climate Lab, Daniel drives our climate work across the world.
With a background in community-based and faith-based campaigning, as well as non-profit management and leadership, he makes sure Purpose’s climate campaigns deliver across the political spectrum from hyper liberal to deeply conservative.
Daniel’s campaigning with Purpose includes our work with Catholics in Poland and Brazil, Evangelical Christians in Brazil and Australia and Muslims in Indonesia and the UK. He led our work with communities of colour in London, nature friendly farmers in Cornwall, rural women in Poland, and even renewable first-movers in Bulgaria.
His portfolio includes leading the development of a major global campaign for Bloomberg Philanthropies, election-focused campaigning for Environmental Defense Fund, and climate disinformation campaigning for the KR Foundation. His private sector clients include IKEA and Capgemini.
Before arriving at Purpose, Daniel led the campaigning at Catholic development agency CAFOD, driving action on net zero and refugee rights by reaching a younger and more diverse audience. He ran ActionAid UK’s successful women’s rights campaign. Daniel also co-founded a youth empowerment non-profit.
Daniel holds a PhD in geography from the University of Leeds and an MBA from the Open University. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Pope Francis once met Daniel at the Vatican. And despite living in Central London he’s surprisingly outdoorsy.
Nicolas is the Head of Purpose France. Earlier in his career, Nicolas was the Managing Director of the McKinsey France Foundation, specialized in the socio-professional integration of young people coming from disadvantaged areas. Nicolas then joined the Cabinet of the High Commissioner for Employment and Business Engagement as Business, Inclusion & Social Impact Minister Advisor, alongside French Ministers of Labor, Employment and Insertion. He thus had the opportunity to lead both the French President Macron program Les entreprises s'engagent and the territorial deployment of the French government economic recovery plan.
Before that, the subjects of social impact and entrepreneurship were already the main drivers of Nicolas' commitments, first as a social entrepreneur, founder of Hacktiv.org, a web platform for citizen engagement, and then close to the President of the Groupe SOS, to develop projects aiming at building an inclusive, just and sustainable society. Throughout all these experiences, he had the chance to work with many structures and people, from the public, private and associative sectors, who defend the rights of the most fragile for a better society.
Nicolas is the recipient of several prizes throughout his career, such as La France s’engage Laureate, from the former French President Hollande, named as Les 30 Glorieux (30 under 30) from Europe 1 and had the opportunity to speak about youth and civic engagement in a French TED Talk.
Nicolas is passionate about social entrepreneurship, public mobilization and, more broadly, the development of social impact projects. He is particularly attached to the themes of equal opportunities, territorial development, and access for all to culture.
Nicolas has a double education in both public and private management, at Pantheon University in Paris and then at EDHEC, a top-ranking French Business school diploma, including two years abroad in Sweden & Thailand.
Nicolas grew up in a small village of 300 inhabitants in the countryside of southern France and comes from a large Portuguese immigrant family of 35 cousins. He loves theater, cinema, writing, traveling, and is interested as an amateur in making short films/ documentaries.
As Head of Purpose's Europe Office and Senior Creative Director, Sara El Dabi brings together her experience in creating impactful campaigns with team management and development. Sara oversees human resources, staff welfare & culture, office management, and diversity, equity & inclusion for Purpose's Europe team.
In her creative role, Sara takes on multi-dimensional responsibilities within the creative team as an art director, graphic designer, creative strategist and producer, merging attention to detail and innovative execution. She is passionate about delivering conceptual reasoning and in-depth research, working right from the inception of a project to its completion. Working as lead creative, Sara brings a pioneering and entrepreneurial spirit to tell stories and solve problems. At Girl Effect, Sara launched a number of youth-led brands and digital platforms, whilst nurturing and empowering other creatives in Malawi, Ethiopia and India.
Sara received her MA in graphic design from Central St Martins and previously ran her own company and creative collective for 10 years, working with clients like Nike, BBC, Vans and Urban Outfitters. This diverse and talented creative network continue to inspire her.
Aleks supports the Purpose Climate Lab team as an Associate Project Manager. Her forte lies in networking, creativity and critical thinking. Her focus is set on the “big picture” and her life goal is to leave the world more sustainable than it is now. Aleks believes that by uniting people, this can be achieved.
Born and raised in entrepreneurial ecosystems of Munich, Warsaw and Berlin, Aleks honed her experience in project management by organizing projects and events about sustainability for startups. Alongside the full-time job at Purpose, she continues pursuing her entrepreneurial endeavours during her after-hours; Projeks - a blog for circular DIY solutions, and recently Nekslabs - campaign introducing a new, sustainable business-as-usual.
Aleks graduated from GEM in Berlin with a MSc of Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship in 2020, and from PJAIT in Warsaw with a BA major in Animation in 2014. Aleks has the energy to conquer all challenges, and will move mountains to reach her goal. Her strategy in forming bonds is openness, empathy and joke cracking. Aleks’ vocation is surfing (although she isn’t great at it.)
Alexandra is a Senior Project Manager at Purpose, helping lead her teams to success through the oversight of project goals, details and trajectories. At Purpose, Alexandra acts as the day-to-day point of contact for her team, external vendors and clients. She manages project workload, all schedules and financial implications. She knows she has done her job well when everyone is feeling happy and proud to be making a societal impact together.
Alexandra is well-established in client and project management, having worked in both the social impact and entertainment industries. In the social impact space, Alexandra has worked with corporations, government agencies and nonprofits to help oversee the successful and timely completion of projects. Alexandra has become a specialist in many different social sectors, including but not limited to financial literacy, food insecurity, civic engagement and mental health awareness. As the day-to-day contact, she is focused on helping both client and project teams stay aligned on long-term goals and have a clear understanding of the project schedule and next steps.
Outside of work, Alexandra volunteers and raises funds for organizations close to her heart, such as The Make-A-Wish Foundation, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Special Olympics. She is an alumna of the University of Colorado at Boulder and was a dancer prior to beginning her career in project management. She loves to travel, eat, cheer on her favorite sports teams and listen to people’s stories.
As a digital campaigner, Amy leads on the development of digital strategies, campaign plans, partner management and assists in the reporting, measurement and evaluation of campaigns. She enjoys finding innovative ways of engaging new audiences through various digital tactics.
Amy has a background in paid media and marketing, having studied a Business Science in Marketing at the University of Cape Town. Prior to joining Purpose, she built up skills in ad operations and implementation, digital strategy, reporting, and measurement and evaluation.
When she’s not at work, Amy enjoys walking around new pockets of London, and dog-spotting in the park.
Andrew looks at the world as problems to be solved. He loves thinking about root causes and possible solutions. Then he makes them happen.
Before Purpose, Andrew was running campaigns at Save the Children, Greenpeace, Unite the Union and 38 Degrees. In that time, he managed a global campaign from the hull of a boat, organised a sit-in of a public toilet, and was denounced from the floor of the House of Commons.
Andrew went to the University of Manchester, and has a Maths degree. It’s as fun as it sounds.
Outside of work, Andrew volunteers at a helpline (he’s a good listener); he studies how people think and he’s always doing his best to never leave Hackney.
As a Campaign Manager at Purpose Climate Lab, Anna works both strategically and creatively to support innovative climate and public mobilization campaigns in Poland. At work, she uses her professional experience from advertising, non-governmental organizations and marketing. Anna believes that creative communication and understanding of the audiences is a key to success in building social change.
Anna holds a BA in Media Management and an MA in Law from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She also studied abroad in the Netherlands and Singapore. Anna gained experience as a long-term volunteer and intern, among others at Amnesty International and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland.
Prior to joining Purpose, Anna worked as a PR specialist and communication specialist focusing primarily on the digital world, cooperation with influencers and producing creative visual content. She spent 3 years building an engaged online community around one of the largest foundations in Poland dedicated to helping adults with intellectual disabilities.
Outside of work, Anna is an avid traveler with 70 visited countries on her list, using photography as a tool to capture the brightest moments and people on her way. Time between journeys she spends at home with her old doggo, the Beast.
Annelise is a Senior Project Manager at Purpose, working across both agency and labs projects.
Annelise has nearly 10 years of experience in project management in creative and advertising agencies, working with clients from fashion brands, healthcare, FMCG, arts & culture, charities and government bodies.
With a degree in Graphic Design, Annelise has always been interested in creative and strategic processes, and loves working end-to-end on multi-channel campaigns with creative thinkers.
Outside of work, Annelise loves exploring. She is particularly interested in history, eating delicious things and cycling or walking her way around new places.
At Purpose, Charlotte leads the global strategy team of bright and curious minds, and is responsible for their learning, growth and strategic output. A staunch believer that strategy teams should be diverse in gender, race, class, sexuality and identity, she takes pride in building a strategy team that reflects that and invites all brilliant minds to apply, whatever their background.
Charlotte’s career started in advertising - crafting the creative strategy for John Lewis, Habitat and Unilever's ice cream portfolio. Her growing social consciousness and gravitation towards ethically minded clients led her to move into social impact. She feels strongly that the social impact space deserves the rigor and provocative creativity that is so often seen in the corporate world.
Whilst in advertising, Charlotte authored 4 award winning effectiveness papers, winning both a gold IPA effectiveness award and a silver Cannes Lion for her writing. Her papers demonstrated the undeniable impact of creativity on brand building, and defined how the creative process - that intangible, ethereal thing - can be honed and finessed to deliver huge business results for brands. She has spoken at Most Contagious around the world on the same topic and is a huge champion of strong relationships between strategists and creatives, in order to make good work, great.
Corina Kwami is a Director of Strategy at Purpose, bringing her globally recognized expertise in infrastructure, sustainability and cities to our strategy work. Since joining Purpose, she has led the development of a narrative change curriculum for practitioners across different sectors (Voices Incubator), contributing her subject-matter expertise on business development for our climate portfolio and collaborating with partner organizations in designing for the planet.
With a decade of experience in over 20 countries across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia, Corina’s career includes systems analyses and stakeholder engagement in global health, infrastructure policy and environmental, social & governance (ESG) initiatives. She has extensive experience in systems thinking, problem-framing and facilitating spaces for collaboration through the arts. Prior to joining Purpose, Corina led the ‘Sustainable living places’ portfolio at the Royal Academy of Engineering which applied a systems approach to decarbonizing housing in partnership with the Infrastructure Projects Authority, a part of the UK Treasury that oversees major infrastructure projects.
Corina holds a bachelors from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, masters from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a doctorate from University College London.
As a former competitive swimmer for nearly 12 years at the national / collegiate level, Corina credits her values of 'caring for the whole person' and being 'people for others' to many hours in the pool with teammates from all over the world. Often described as a 'Renaissance woman', Corina is also jazz musician often found performing in London and around the globe and has been recognised for her impressive grasp of what jazz can teach us about leadership, partnerships, and innovative thinking at the UNLEASH Innovation Lab.
As Creative Director at Purpose, Gabrielle takes on a number of responsibilities across the creative team: copywriter, art director, creative strategist and producer. Merging her multi-hyphenate background with a passion for craft, Gabrielle spearheads conceptually led, thought provoking creative across multiple channels. With a background in London’s leading advertising, creative and digital agencies, Gabrielle brings her wealth of experience to Purpose to help solve problems and champion creative excellence.
Guy Porter has a background in data analysis, digital investigation and training and development for the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and Goldsmiths, University of London. As a Digital & Data Insights Manager, he is responsible for communicating the relevance and value of data-driven insights across the organisation and to activists, campaigners and civil society organisations engaged in Purpose’s shared mission.
Guy holds an MSc in Digital Journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA in History & History of Art from Nottingham University. His research and analysis on hate speech, digital threats to democracy and climate mis/disinformation has been published in the British, Australian and European press.
Hannah comes to campaigning from a background in the creative sector. As a Campaign Director and Campaign Lead at Purpose EMEA, she combines these disciplines; collaborating with creative partners and practitioners to bring about culture change on social issues.
At Purpose, Hannah strives to test innovative campaigning approaches. These include sending a ‘censorship robot’ and flash mob choir to the European Parliament, coordinating an Internet blackout with a range of major global tech platforms, supporting the development of a digital artwork allowing children to advocate on climate, and commissioning a series of craft workshops on the most taboo menstrual health topics. Her campaigns have increased awareness of air pollution, changed behaviours to stop the spread of online misinformation, and contributed to legislative updates on period equity and digital rights.
Before Purpose, Hannah worked for over 10 years in non-profit arts organisations including charities, museums, galleries and publishers such as the Chisenhale Gallery, Art Monthly, Raven Row, Phaidon Press, Crafts Council and University of the Arts London. During her time in the southern hemisphere, she also worked for Macquarie University in Sydney to deliver vaccine communications. Hannah graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art and Central Saint Martin’s in Fine Art degrees.
As Global Program Manager, Ilinca is responsible for managing the Climate Lab’s global portfolio of work. In close collaboration with the Lab’s leadership and in-country teams, she ensures that Purpose Climate Lab's projects deliver high impact through high-quality project design, timely and on-budget implementation, accurate measurement and reporting.
Prior to joining Purpose, Ilinca worked at the global think-tank ODI, where she led the operational, financial and project management coordination of its research programmes, including oversight of the Project Management team. She has experience with policy work as well, notably on energy for the European Commission in Brussels and on EU affairs at the British Embassy in Bucharest, alongside hands-on experience in project design and delivery at the EU Delegation in Nigeria.
Ilinca has a BA in International Business and Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, and a MA in European Studies from the College of Europe.
Ilinca loves swing dancing, baking and crime series. She bought a bike during the first lockdown and has been recently using it to explore the West Sussex countryside.
Isobel is the Digital Campaign Director at Purpose London, who specialises in digital communications and content. She brings a wealth of knowledge from nearly a decade working in digital roles across the private and public sector. At Purpose she has worked on a range of clients, including LEGO Foundation, Freedom From Torture and as part of Purpose Climate Lab, finding innovative ways to connect with audiences with engaging content and messages.
Previous to her role at Purpose, she worked as a Creative & Digital Strategist at WPP agencies, such as VMLY&R and Ogilvy, with clients like Baileys and Alpro, launched Mental Health at Work, a digital initiative with Mind and The Royal Foundation, and spent three years devising ways to immerse the great British public in the cinematic worlds of Secret Cinema through social media and digital as a pre-narrative producer. In a past life, she lived in New York for five years, working to bring theatre in development to unusual locations across Brooklyn. The thread that connects this broad experience is a passion for story-telling and connecting with people in a meaningful way.
Isobel has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Liverpool, an MA in Theatre from LIPA, and a diploma in Psychoanalysis from the Tavistock and Portman Trust. In her free time she sings in a chamber choir, consumes media and writes; she has written two TV pilots and has just started her first novel.
Jana is an Associate Director of Project Management and Project Management Lead at Purpose EMEA, working on the UN Verified programme. She brings her expertise in project management and love of leading teams, ensuring the delivery of high quality projects whilst building a strong and positive team culture.
She has 15 years industry experience and has led many multidisciplinary teams delivering a wide range of successful projects from campaigns, platforms, websites, apps, OOH, videos, product design. Her career started at VCCP followed by Isobar and Tag Worldwide, where she delivered work for global brands such as SONY, HP, Unilever and Asus. After that she spent 7 years in a start up tech agency working alongside the owner in growing the business.
Her personal life is all about her 2 year old daughter and they have lots of fun together going out and about and meeting up with other families. In another life she enjoyed travelling the world and sampling the latest craft beers around London.
Kieran joins Purpose as a Creative with 5 years design experience. He’s a passionate problem solver with specialisms in brand & identity, ideation and UX.
Prior to joining Purpose, Kieran has worked with large scale global brands, such as Unilever & Disney, start ups, and everything in between. Through a variety of mediums and data where possible, he loves crafting beautiful and engaging concepts.
Out of hours you’ll more than likely find Kieran immersed in an in-depth conversation about music or at the driving range, working on his ever so shaky swing.
As a seasoned industry professional with a proven track record in creative services management, Lee brings substantial industry experience, having working integrally with some of the worlds biggest brands. Lee is passionate about working efficiently and has a resolute desire to succeed. His instinctive ability to map a logistical route to success has allowed him to devise innovative workflow soilutions proving demonstrable efficiency gains throughout his career.
Prior to joining Purpose, he has helped amongst others, both Jaywing and IMAHome improve utilisation by creating and continually refining processes.
Away from work, Lee can usually be found enjoying hiking, mountain biking, the gym or rugby-sadly, only watching these days!. He has also been a volunteer ranger of Sustrans for over 20 years, and regularly spends time maintaining a small section of the 12,000+ miles of signed routes across the UK.
Manuela works at the intersection of strategy and creativity, with a focus on brand development and sustainable business models. At Purpose, she helps shape campaigns, brands, and organisational models from an analytical standpoint. She has worked on campaigns in Kenya, India and the EU across avoidable blindness, youth participation in governance, and freedom of expression.
Before joining Purpose, Manuela contributed to the development of a citizen engagement hub in Colombia for post-conflict integration. Prior to entering the world of social impact, she worked as a brand strategy consultant for major Latin American corporations, identifying stakeholder insights and integrating compelling narratives into corporate strategies, in order to better connect brands to target audiences.
When not at Purpose, she can be found advancing her personal project to transform civic spaces in Colombian territories that are affected by violence.
Manuela holds a Masters in Strategic Design and Management from Parsons – The New School and a Bachelor in Service Design with a focus on Business and Social Psychology. She has lived in Bogota, New York City and London, and speaks English, Spanish and German.
Maria is an Associate Project Manager at Purpose. She delivers projects for the world's leading nonprofits, philanthropies, and companies — managing the day-to-day communication and operational aspects of Purpose’s projects and COVID-19 Lab. With a background in marketing, Maria combines her 3 years of project management experience working for a digital marketing agency and a not-for-profit to her role.
Covid-19 highlighted pre-existing inequities and social issues which gave Maria the push to pursue a career change into social impact. Based on her lived experience as a first generation British Syrian, when the pandemic hit Maria knew she wanted to make a difference to address social issues, inequality and catalyse systemic change using her skills for social good.
Before joining Purpose, Maria worked in the Communications, Operations and Recruitment & Inclusion Services teams for an award-winning not-for-profit empowering young people from under-represented communities and supporting employers to diversify their workforce and build inclusive work environments. Prior to this, Maria worked in the Client Services team for a digital marketing agency working on projects for gaming and technology clients including Logitech, NVIDIA and Blue Microphones.
Maria has lived most of her life in the UK but has also lived in Saudi Arabia for 7 years and loves travelling. In her spare time Maria loves to visit art exhibitions.
Mustafa is a Campaign Manager at Purpose and leads a number of projects across MENA and Europe, on different topics including misinformation, COVID-19, mental health, hate speech and climate justice.
He plays a critical role in campaign delivery, including developing campaign content. executing offline tactics and stunts, running experiments, monitoring metrics and sharing data-driven results. He manages partnerships, builds relationships and represents Purpose with key decision makers. Through his network of journalists, media outlets, NGOs and community groups in MENA, he was able to reach an audience of 40 Million for the United Nations Verified campaign.
Mustafa has a Bachelor's degree in mass communications. He worked as a reporter and writer for local and international newspapers for eight years, reporting about politics, the war in Syria, human rights and LGBTQ+ rights in Arabic, English and German. He is an artist in his free time, especially painting and handcrafts. He loves sport, plants and cats.
As an Associate Digital Campaigns Director, Nnamdi brings digital campaigning experience, marketing and communications expertise and a passion for innovation. With a background in marketing communications and digital strategy in both the profit and non-profit sectors, he delivers movement and campaign strategies tailored to digital habits and media consumption patterns but prioritises best practices and data protection.
Before joining Purpose, Nnamdi managed marketing in several organisations like Scarborough Borough Council, Etisalat telecommunications and the British Council, where he worked on the Climate connections programme for COP 26 in 60+ countries and led the marketing function in West Africa. He also has a rich agency background working with Saatchi and Saatchi, Mediacom and Initiative media working on brands like Guinness, Unilever and Cadbury in West Africa.
Nnamdi holds an MSc in Marketing Communications from Pan-Atlantic University and a BSc in Marketing from Covenant University. He’s a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing London.
Nnamdi grew up in a town in Lagos that was purpose-built for the Festival of Arts and culture called FESTAC. He loves combat sports and taking long walks.
Ravneet is an Associate Creative Manager that has a passion for ‘design for change’ and focuses on exploring creative solutions in which we can tackle important issues. She specialises in editorial design, UX design, brand & identity and animation, which she has implemented across various campaigns at Purpose.
Before joining Purpose, Ravneet studied at the Arts University Bournemouth where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design. As a designer she focused on creating work which is both striking and is able to evoke numerous emotions of the public to create a lasting impression.
When Ravneet is not working she enjoys being outdoors and exploring new surroundings on her bicycle! She also be found creating makeup looks in her bedroom. Follow her on Instagram to see more @Ravneetbains.
Rickie is an Associate Creative Director at Purpose EMEA working with the creative teams to bolster creative ideation and campaign thinking paired with a passion for craft. He specialises in copywriting and behavioural change campaigns.
Prior to joining Purpose, Rickie worked his way through top London advertising agencies and helped turn around the reputation of smaller independent shops.
His thought provoking work for charities such as NSPCC/Childline, LGBT Foundation and Papyrus have seen him win numerous industry awards from Cannes Lions through to D&AD pencils.
Rickie graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a B.A. in Advertising. When not at work, you’ll often find Rickie baking, painting, starting a new hobby or hating coriander.
Sam's work as Global Paid Media Associate Director has him identifying where paid media approaches work best and how to implement them most effectively, leveraging a suite of web tools to research, operate and evaluate his campaigns. To support this work, Sam has a background in digital media and marketing and has spent seven years working at the intersection between digital communications and the social impact space.
Before Purpose, Sam coordinated digital media and communications efforts within the counter-misinformation space, helping projects within Eastern Europe for the UK and US Governments. Previous to that, Sam has led digitally-focussed petition-driving and fundraising projects for numerous charities, including Amnesty International UK and British Heart Foundation.
Sam graduated with a B.A. in Politics from University of Hull.
Out of hours, Sam spends his time planning his next backpacking trip, listening to some obscure jazz-hip hop fusion or possibly discussing - at great length - the best ways to brew filter coffee.
Sarah is an Associate Manager for Impact, Measurement and Learning based in London.
Sarah leads the development and execution of impact frameworks, to help Purpose understand the impact their campaigns have in the world. Her focus is on working with teams to develop practical and insightful approaches gathering and analysing data from our projects, and supporting colleagues to develop their evaluation skills.
Prior to Purpose, Sarah’s background is in the humanitarian sector. Her previous focus was on building the evidence base for humanitarian interventions initiated using forecasts, evaluating the difference this made on people vulnerable to floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Sarah graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Social Anthropology and Politic, and from SOAS with a Masters in the Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development.
Before joining Purpose, Sarah worked for Her Majesty's Government (Civil Service) in the UK. Sarah was instrumental in the successful passage of the Charities and Social Investment Bill in the House of Lords. And for the two years prior, she worked within the coalition Government for the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
In her Senior Program Manager role at Purpose, Sarah uses her varied and deep skills in project management, event planning, and administration. Sarah carries a BA degree in International Relations and Modern History from the University of East Anglia, which served in spurring on her interest for international and humanitarian development.
Sarah is a strong believer in recognizing mental health as a global issue and tries to champion this message as much as possible. Sarah has run the Brighton Marathon 2016 and a half marathon in order to raise money for Mind, a mental health charity in the UK, and she also worked with mentally and physically disabled children in a respite centre in New York in 2011.
Simon is a Strategy Director & Strategy Lead at Purpose EMEA, and has over 9 years experience in advertising, marketing and strategic communications working across private and public sector clients. His breadth of experience covers creative and media strategies whilst tackling some of the biggest issues facing humanity today. In his time at Purpose, Simon has managed to reposition a well-known global health brand in need of a refresh, create a holistic and innovative approach to employee and customer engagement with IKEA and build a highly targeted public mobilisation campaign to encourage adherence to public health guidelines in South Africa & the Middle East.
Simon's previous role was as a strategist at M&C Saatchi World Services, a strategic and creative consultancy (part of the M&C Saatchi network agency). Here he focused on work in the Middle East and North Africa tackling issues around extremism, violent extremism and counter-terrorism. Projects included communications interventions around deradicalisation in the Sahel and the securitization of young Iraqi men vulnerable to the divisive narratives of violent extremism by leveraging the influence of community gatekeepers.
Simon started out working at Publicis' agency Starcom as a media planner and junior strategist. Here he learnt the intricacies (and pitfalls) of strategy working across primary research, audience insights generation to campaign delivery. He's worked across some of the biggest commercial clients such as Samsung, Yahoo & Royal London.
When away from work Simon, much like the family dog Otis, can be found chasing a ball around a playing field whether it be football, basketball, golf or cricket!
As a Strategy Manager at Purpose, Sofia Mutinelli brings together life sciences expertise, branding & innovation experience and her commitment to sustainable development. With a background in psychology, she taps into human truths to decode society and craft compelling strategies that advance social and environmental purpose.
Before joining Purpose, Sofia journeyed her way through unconventional research methods to study how people and businesses perform. She specialised in the Psychology of Waste and worked on social research projects, which have been featured in scientific publications. In her previous role as Senior Strategist & Sustainability Lead for a brand and innovation consultancy, she led large-scale innovation and cultural projects and launched strategies within Health & Wellness, Tech, Food & DEI with global brands. Fusing mindfulness for the emergent culture with passion for social impact, she led the initiative of integrating the UN SDGs as a strategic framework and business proposition.
Sofia, originally from Italy, holds a Bachelor in Psychology with Behavioural Economics and a Master’s degree in Psychology of Economic Life. In her spare time, Sofia loves writing and sipping coffee with friends - loyally to her Italian self.
As Partnership Director, Sonia Sheta brings a wealth of communications experience from a creative, business and social impact perspective. At Purpose she leads the development of relationships with potential partners and clients and is a member of the London Leadership team
Previously Sonia had a successful career in advertising where she became the first person of colour to join the Board of a large London agency. She spearheaded campaigns for government and businesses alike, building long-term relationships with clients along the way, as well as heading up the department, training and mentoring staff. She went on to set up her own consultancy working in that middle ground between business and good causes.
Sonia graduated from Southampton University with a BA in Classics and studied Integrative Psychotherapy at The Minster Centre.
She is passionate about ancient civilisations and fancies herself as a bit of an intrepid explorer.
Based in Berlin, Sophie is a Director of Impact, Measurement & Learning (IML) and IML Lead at Purpose EMEA, and works on projects in Germany, France and the UK. Focusing on campaign strategy, she has participated in projects for the Gates Foundation and the UN, among others, and has helped to set up the Purpose Climate Lab in France.
Prior to joining Purpose, Sophie worked in the development sector, concentrating on evidence-based programme design; monitoring and evaluation; and thought-leadership strategies. With the British Council she spent two years in Mexico City and a further two in Islamabad, and subsequently consulted for a range of organisations in the arts and education sectors, including UNESCO, Save the Children and Arts Council England.
She has a BA (Hons) in Politics, Psychology and Sociology from the University of Cambridge and a MSc in Education (International and Comparative) from the University of Oxford. She speaks English and French fluently, and good Spanish.
Outside of work, Sophie loves trawling Berlin’s flea markets and vintage stores. She has a growing collection of Risograph, silkscreen and lithograph prints from around the world.
Based in Amsterdam, Suma is a Design Manager at Purpose working on projects across EMEA and India. She combines her skills in branding, communication and human-centered design to build impactful campaigns on pressing global issues. As a part of Purpose Climate Lab, she has designed multiple campaigns such as Biodiversity by the Bay, We the Change and Help Delhi Breathe.
As someone who cares deeply about nature and its relationship with people, she has designed campaigns that advocate for climate action, protecting biodiversity, marine conservation, clean energy transition and equitable health care. Prior to joining Purpose, she worked with a diverse range of brands and organisations like L’Oréal, Neutrogena, Parley for the Oceans and The 5 Gyres Institute.
She holds a Masters in Strategic Design & Management from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelors in Design Communication from LASALLE College of the Arts. Her concern for marine conservation has deeply influenced her choice of academic projects and volunteer work. When Suma is not designing, she is usually sitting in a corner somewhere drawing animals in her sketchbook. She’s a water baby! She loves scuba diving, hiking and taking photos of wildlife @suminthewild
