Our trustees

FPA trustees are the group of people legally responsible for the overall management and decision-making in the charity, for setting the overall direction and for monitoring performance against our strategic plan.

All our trustees are volunteers, giving their time and skills to FPA free of charge. They meet four times a year as a Board as well as attending various other FPA committee meetings and events during the year.

We are fortunate to have a broad range of individuals who bring a great mix of skills and experience to FPA.

Dr Val Day, Chair

Val joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2009 and became Chair in December 2011.

• Val trained in medicine in London, developing a clinical career in obstetrics and gynaecology and sexual healthcare before becoming a public health consultant.
• She has worked in public health at local, regional, national and international level for 25 years.
• Val has been Director of Public Health in North Worcestershire, Director of Service Improvement Programmes in the NHS Modernisation Agency and held various posts at the Department of Health.
• In 2009 she retired from the Department of Health where, as Director of Commissioning and Public Health, she had focused on the capacity and capability to improve population health through effective commissioning of health improvement and healthcare services.
• Val is now an independent public health consultant and has worked on a wide range of assignments for primary care trusts, acute hospital trusts and the Department of Health.

Paul Woodward, Vice Chair

Paul joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2006 and became Vice Chair in 2009.

• Paul attended the business schools of INSEAD, Oxford and Harvard.
• He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the early 70s and after a spell in the investment world in the City joined the International Division of Beecham.
• In 1990 he became Business Development Director in Europe for the newly formed SmithKline Beecham plc.
• In 1995 Paul was appointed Marketing Director for Schering AG in the UK and in 2000 became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a member of the European Board.
• In 2006 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the College of Pharmacy Practice.
• In March 2007 Paul joined Sue Ryder Care as CEO.

Tracey Marshall, Treasurer

Tracey joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2007 and became Treasurer in 2008.

• Tracey graduated from the University of Kent in 1985 with a degree in Economics and French.
• Her commercial career has been primarily based in the City of London, where she worked for over 20 years. She is a Chartered Accountant and was formerly a partner with Neville Russell (now Mazars).
• She is former Group Head of HR for the reinsurance broker Benfield Group. She also sat on the Board of Benfield Limited, a company regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
• She has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales since 1989.
• Tracey now works as a freelance consultant on a variety of HR and financial issues. Her previous voluntary sector roles included working for The Samaritans and being a trustee and treasurer for The Brokerage.

Dr Ushan Andrady

Ushan joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2007 as the Welsh representative.

• Ushan trained in Medicine at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and qualified in 1986. He came to the UK as a postgraduate in 1989.
• Having trained at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital, he obtained his postgraduate qualification – Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 1994.
• Ushan joined the University of Liverpool in 1996 as a clinical lecturer in genitourinary medicine (GUM).
• He became a Consultant in GUM/HIV at Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor North Wales in 2000.
• He has recently taken on the role of Service Lead for Sexual Health Services across North Wales within the new Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
• Ushan is Course Director of the North Wales Sexually Transmitted Infection Foundation (STIF) course and represents Wales on the national STIF steering committee.
• He is also educational supervisor for the North Wales GUM training programme and is actively involved in undergraduate teaching at the North Wales Clinical School.
• In the past, Ushan has served as the Chair of the Welsh British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) and was the Welsh representative on the BASHH clinical governance committee, Secretary of the Genitourinary Physicians Colposcopy Group and as a member of the Sexual Health Advisory Group for Welsh Assembly Government.
• He is currently a member of the Chlamydia Advisory Group in Wales and chairs the FPA Welsh Advisory Committee.

Jane Cooke

Jane joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2007.

• Jane is a retired solicitor.
• She was Chair of Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust, Surrey for eight years and led it to achieve Foundation status.
• For ten years she was a member of her local Community Health Council, which she chaired for some of that time.
• She was also Chair of the South West Thames (later South Thames) Regional Association of Community Health Councils for three years.
• Jane was also a board member of Ability Housing Association (which specialises in providing housing for people with specific educational needs) for seven years and Chair for three.
• She was the Governor of her local primary school for ten years.
• Jane is an independent board member of Sentinel Housing Association.
• She is a trustee of Treloar Trust which runs a school and a college of further education for students with severe physical disabilities, as well as providing advice and enabling opportunities for other disabled young people and their advisers in the wider community. She is also a Governor of Treloar College and Vice Chair of the governing body.

Jennifer Gerber

Jennifer joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2007.

• Jennifer was Special Adviser to Andy Burnham MP in his Government departments (HM Treasury, DCMS, DoH) and Director of Progress, a left of centre think tank.
• She also worked for Andy Burnham as a Researcher in the Commons, and for the Labour Party and has worked on three successful general election campaigns.
• Jennifer is Director of Labour Friends of Israel, a not-for-profit campaigning organisation which works for peace in the Middle East.

David Lawrence

David joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2011.

• David initially joined FPA as a member of the Youth Advisory Committee.
• He is a final year student studying Medicine in Liverpool.
• He has recently obtained a Masters degree in Medical Anthropology during which he completed extensive research about sex and relationships education (SRE) in Uganda.
• David has volunteered extensively with the medical student organisation, Sexpression, and was National Coordinator in 2011.
• David founded a peer-led SRE programme in Rwanda in 2011 which will soon reach every secondary school in the country.
• He has also written policies for the Global Youth Coalition for HIV/AIDS (GYCA) and the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA).

Sophie Lumley

Sophie joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2010.

• Sophie is currently in her third year of medical school at Birmingham University.
• In her time at university Sophie has represented her year as a social rep for Birmingham MedSoc and academically on the Staff Student Curriculum Committee.
• She is a member of the UK-wide Sexpression charity, which trains students to teach sex and relationships education in schools in colleges.
• After volunteering at FPA in 2010 she decided to apply to be a trustee as a representative of younger people.
• She has also volunteered and worked for the UK charities Jeans for Genes, the Music Therapy Charity and the Lauren Page Trust, organising project work, designing websites and fundraising.

Victoria Roberts

Victoria joined the FPA Board of Trustees in 2007.

• Victoria has an MA in International Relations from the University of Essex, a BA in History from University College London and an LLB from the College of Law.
• She spent three and a half years as a political researcher for John Bercow MP, until September 2007.
• Victoria is Deputy Chair of the Tory Reform Group, a Director of the Burma Campaign UK and Treasurer of the Burma Justice Committee.
• She was Campaign Manager for a target seat in the 2010 General Election.
• She has published works with the Foreign Policy Centre, House Magazine and regularly edits Reformer, the Tory Reform Group journal.
• Victoria is a barrister and member of Inner Temple. She is currently a legal adviser to a large multinational PLC.