Trustees
The Great Generation Trustees are a group of individuals brought together to steer and provide guidance to the development of our programmes. Their knowledge and humanitarian involvement will ensure The Great Generation achieves it aims, missions and objectives.
Suzanne Gowler
Suzanne founded The Great Generation in 2004 to create an effective programme of volunteering that responds to the needs of communities living in poverty - enabling volunteers to take part in a sustainable development project, where they get to see their donation in action and help to invest in local infrastructure and microfinance ventures.Over the last 20 years, Suzanne has assisted companies to develop internal and external strategies to address business improvement, in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors with local and international organisations and governments.
The Great Generation is a great opportunity to bring together many diverse threads of her experience and her passionate belief that the public and private sector need to develop new ways of working to achieve shared goals. Many of the proprietary tools that are used in her consulting work are being used by The Great Generation to develop and implement its strategy as well as that of its expert partner
Henry Knowles
Henry Knowles is a solicitor who trained at, and has worked for, a City law firm for over 10 years, specialising in mergers & acquisitions. During that time he spent a year and a half working in Tokyo, including a secondment to the legal department of a Japanese client. Outside law he has run a small design company and undertakes some business consultancy services for small and start-up companies.He read Social and Political Science at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has travelled extensively, much of it in South East Asia - having visited India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Nepal on varying occasions, often to pursue his favoured pastime of photography. He has also taught English to Vietnamese boat people in a closed refugee camp in Hong Kong.
Jonathan Salmon
Jonathan Salmon has been a consultant physician in Oxford for the past eight years, specialising in intensive care and acute general medicine. He trained at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and The Middlesex Hospital, London then spent 15 years as a physician in the Army. He served in Northern Ireland, Hong Kong, Nepal and Bosnia and took part in caving expeditions to Peru and Papua New Guinea.For his last three years in the Army he was director of intensive care at the Royal Hospital Haslar and consultant physician in various field hospitals. He has extensive experience of planning and providing medical support in the field whether integral to well-equipped, military operations or as part of lightly equipped expeditions in very remote areas. Hobbies include walking and an increasingly armchair interest in caving and climbing.
