Barbara Kasumu
Barbara Kasumu is the Executive Director of Charities for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation (one of the oldest health foundations in the world)providing dedicated leadership and strategic oversight across the three charity brands: Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity, Evelina London Children’s Charity and Guy’s Cancer Charity. These charities support the dedicated NHS staff with wellbeing services, healthcare innovation and exceptional patient and family care.
Barbara is an award-winning senior leader with a track record of driving and sustaining positive change in the charity sector and beyond. Barbara was previously the Director of Membership, Programmes and Development for the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), an international higher education association made up of 500+ universities across 50 countries. Barbara was also Executive Director for the National Union of Students,a voluntary member organisation representing the interests of more than 7 million students and 600 students’ unions.In both roles Barbara was Instrumental in delivering key organisation reforms, leading on income generation, innovation, and strategy.
Once named as Red’s Magazine ‘Woman to Watch’, Barbara was appointed to the Diversity and Inclusion board for the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games. She has previously sat on the charity boards of the Foyer Federation and The Kids Network. Barbara is a Clore Social Fellow and has represented the UK on International platforms including at the G8 and G20 summits.