EWB-UK Board of Trustees
Sacha spent the summer of 2005 volunteering with EWB-UK on an Improved Cooking Stove (ICS) project in Nepal. On his return he co-found EWB-Nottingham driven by the idea that EWB-UK can facilitate International Development while increasing the capacity of young engineers.
At the 2006 AGM he was elected on to the Board of Trustees and has been involved with various focus groups including; developing the Training and Education Strategy, overseeing the Training and bursaries programmes, the recruitment of the charities first 2 employees and Communities of Practice.
Along with his formal role he has continued to project manage and mentor various ICS work undertaken by EWB-UK and lead a number of talks and workshops. Sacha is committed to raising the quality of EWB-UK’s work through building stronger: internal pools of knowledge, links within the development sector and routes to disseminate our work. This will add weight to EWB-UK’s position as an impact focused facilitator to the International Development sector.
Ian McChesney (Secretary) 
Ian McChesney is a leading expert in technology assessment and business development for energy systems from sustainable fuels.
After graduating from Imperial College as a Chemical Engineer, Ian volunteered in Ethiopia with the United Nations. He later returned to the UK and worked as a technical advisor for ITIS on projects in Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh before returning to the region to lead projects in Sudan. Ian later joined Practical Action (formerly knows as ITDG) as the programme manager for sugar and biomass energy programmes in South Asia and East Africa.
Ian became the Head of Engineering for a major commercial agricultural investment in Indonesia before returning to the UK to found Energy for Sustainable Development, now a leading sustainable energy consultancy with offices in Bulgaria, Kenya, South Africa and China.
More recently, Ian has been driving numerous cogeneration and biomass power projects in the UK, Europe and Africa. He has advised European governments and the UK Carbon Trust on renewable energy strategy, new markets, technologies and processes.
Ruvan Mendis 
Ruvan Mendis was Chief Executive of EWB-UK in 2004/05 and was its projects co-ordinator from 2002 to 2004. He was instrumental in building what is now one of EWB-UK’s most successful activities, building the scheme to one which has now sent over 150 engineers to work on development projects overseas.
After two years working at Newton Industrial Consultants leading efficiency and yield improvement projects for UK manufacturing firms, Ruvan now works for innocent drinks as a production and supply chain specialist.
Ruvan has worked with EWB-UK in Nepal and more recently with a variety of organisations on Sri Lankan post-tsunami reconstruction projects – having been in Sri Lanka on Boxing Day 2004. He has also worked in Sudan on industrial development initatives.
Ruvan has served as a trustee since 2005, previously focusing on building structure in the placements and bursaries programme areas and assessing legal risks and insurance, and was chair of the board in 2007/08.
Dr. Heather Cruickshank
Heather worked as a civil engineer for ten years before joining the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering as a Research Assistant. She is one of the founding members of the department's Centre for Sustainable Development and has been involved in preparation of teaching material for a number of undergraduate and graduate engineering courses.
Heather graduated from Bolton Institute of Higher Education with a degree in civil engineering in 1996, and with an Earth Sciences degree from the Open University in 1997. In 2004 she completed a PhD, entitled "Embedding the Concepts of Sustainable Development into Practical Civil Engineering" after winning the Mott McDonald Charitable Trust PhD Scholarship in 2000.
In 2003 Heather worked for Irish aid agency Concern in Afghanistan, and has also experienced working in Nepal, Albania, South Africa and Mongolia. In 2005 she helped victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia as part of the international relief programme. Heather has previously given seminars at the EWB-UK training course at Clare Farm.
Caroline is a chartered accountant. She graduated from Oxford University in 2002 with a master’s degree in Chemistry, after which she taught English in China for 10 month. In 2003 she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor of accounts in the public sector, predominantly for charities and local authorities
On the Board of Trustees Caroline is be working with the National Executive to ensure that EWB-UK’s accounts are transparent and meet with regulatory requirements both now and as EWB-UK’s activities grow to meet the increasing demand for its services.
Louise Graduated from a Masters in Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Cambridge in 2007. Louise first got involved with EWB-UK at the Cambridge branch as Training Co-ordinator in 2004 at the start of the second year of her undergraduate. From 2005-2007 she was an active member of the National Executive for EWB-UK's Training programme.
Eddie Matos
Eddie is a 5th year undergraduate in Engineering Design at the University of Bristol.
Since joining EWB-UK in 2005, he has held numerous different positions across some of the charity's different programme areas. Starting as talks and events coordinator at the Bristol branch, Eddie went on to become a member of the national training team where he helped to start-up the tri-disciplinary course. In 2007 he went on a 3-month EWB-UK placement with Ayuda en Acción - PRODECI, to deliver small-scale water systems to rural communities in north Ecuador. He then project managed the placement for the following year.
Eddie also has 10 months experience working at Arup as a mechanical building services engineer, with a focus on low-energy consultancy.
Hayley Sharp 
Hayley has been involved in the EWB-Bristol branch in a variety of roles since 2004. In 2007-08 she was on EWB-UK's National Executive as Research Coordinator, where she worked with the Research Team to identify areas within international development where technological solutions could be beneficial, and enabling UK-based students to undertake these projects as part of their degree work. She also led the Research Team to organise the first EWB-UK National Research Conference.
In the summer of 2007 Hayley won an EWB-UK Bursary to carry out a project on rural community water supply in Ecuador, and has also worked on appropriate technology projects in Havana and Boston.
Steven Hunt 
Eur Ing in Mechanical Engineering, MEng in Product Design Engineering, MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development
Coming from a background of product development consultancy for global brand-name firms, via project work in slum redevelopment, relief shelter, and wind turbine design, Steven has focussed his work on the realisation of clean energy products and services in developing country contexts. His skills combine market analysis, engineering, system design and project management with post-graduate research into Sustainable Development economics, policy and dynamics. Steven is currently managing and providing technical input into assignments in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Peru, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in the area of sustainable energy and infrastructure services.
Stephen Jones 
Stephen is currently studying a Masters/PhD in the relationship between local governance and water and sanitation provision in Mali, in collaboration with the NGO WaterAid and Royal Holloway, University of London.
He first became involved with EWB-UK in 2003, helping to expand and improve the placements scheme, and then acted as co-CEO of EWB-UK for 2005-2007. After graduating in civil engineering from Cambridge University in 2007, Stephen continued his dissertation research on low-cost earthquake resistant housing, helping to run capacity-building programmes for local NGOs in El Salvador and India. He then worked as a water and sanitation engineer for the French NGO ACTED in Kyrgyzstan before returning to the UK to pursue his postgraduate studies and research.