Our team

Patrick O’Meara is the Interim CEO for the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance. He previously worked as part of our former organisation, Business in the Community (BITC). Patrick helped establish BITC’s membership team in 2006 and served as its Membership Director from 2006-2017. He also led The Prince’s Seeing is Believing Programme for over a decade and served on BITC’s Executive Team.

Since 2017, Patrick has enjoyed a portfolio career, leading projects and taking on interim roles with businesses and charities in the UK, Ireland and the USA. Patrick also serves on the board of two charities, on the alumni board of his university and a family-owned property business.

Emily has extensive experience in brand and communications in the charity and non-profit sector. She joined in 2019 to develop and launch the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance brand, and unite the previous entities of International Tourism Partnership, Youth Career Initiative and Green Hotelier.

Prior to joining the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, she was the Brand Manager for the British Red Cross, where she spent five years managing this internationally protected emblem. She also has experience working in the disability charity sector and education. Emily has a BSc(hons) from University College London and qualifications from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Anjana is responsible for the strategic development and implementation of our programme strategy and leads our programmes team to deliver quality and consistency, ensuring maximum impact.

Anjana has over 20 years of experience in the development sector, across Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, leveraging partnerships with not-for-profits, governments and the private sector to establish and grow high impact programmes. She has held many senior roles, including Executive Director at Developments In Literacy (DIL) in Pakistan, and, prior to joining ITP, Head of Pakistan Programme at HRH The Prince of Wales’ British Asian Trust.

Hemma worked for Marriott International for 25 years across a range of operations before joining the Social Impact Team in 2004. Leading Marriott’s Sustainability & Social Impact efforts in Europe until July 2020, she worked across business functions to identify, develop and implement processes and guidelines addressing sustainability issues and advance against Marriott’s global sustainability and social impact strategy: Serve 360 – Doing Good In Every Direction. In addition, she engaged employees through Marriott’s continent-wide community engagement initiative World of Opportunity Europe. As part of that initiative, Hemma developed and implemented Marriott’s annual ‘You Eat, We Give’ fundraising campaign raising more than €6 million cash and in-kind donations for Marriott’s charitable partners in Europe.

In 2017, she completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Business from the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Hemma serves as CISL Alumni Ambassador for the UK network and as a freelance tutor on CISL’s Business Sustainability Management Programme.

Claire manages our environmental sustainability strategy, including our work on climate action and water stewardship.

Claire has nearly a decade’s experience driving sustainability progress for Hilton. During this time, Claire worked on a wide range of projects including updating Hilton’s global CR strategy, leading their water stewardship efforts and creating behaviour change campaigns, as well as leading initiatives focused on issues such as energy efficiency, single-use plastic reduction and responsible sourcing. She was also part of our carbon and water working group.

Robyne supports the Director of Finance and Resources in all financial matters including day-to-day financial transactions and payroll as well providing administrative support across the organisation. Robyne brings over twenty-five years of experience, working primarily within professional services firms. Her experience focuses on management accounting, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis.

Robyne has obtained a Bachelor of Economics (Accounting) degree and a Master of Commerce degree both from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and, as a qualified accountant, is a member of CPA Australia. This is her first role in the non-profit sector and hopes to utilise her skills and experience in the successful implementation of a new finance system.

Elizabeth works closely with the Head of Youth and our Partnerships Managers to implement our youth employment programme in selected countries across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, playing a key role in managing quality assurance and scale up of our youth programming.

Elizabeth has over seven years not-for-profit sector experience, supporting the delivery of health and rights focused projects in Ghana, India, Nigeria, Kenya and the UK. Most recently she worked with EY Foundation in the UK to deliver youth employability programmes to young people disadvantaged in the labour market. Elizabeth holds a Masters degree in International Development from The University of Manchester.

Shiksha has six years’ experience in education and community development, previously working for the Kherwadi Social Welfare Association – an Indian national non-profit where she managed the organisation’s activities in the Delhi NCR region. Prior to joining Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, Shiksha worked on the Headmaster Leadership development programme with the Mumbai municipal government, for Gandhi Fellowship. Shiksha holds a Post Graduate Degree in Development Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia Mass Communication and Research Centre in Delhi, India.

Deogratius joined Sustainable Hospitality Alliance in 2019 as the Partnerships Manager in Africa. He is responsible for delivering our youth employment programme across Africa from Nairobi, Kenya.

Deogratius has over seven years’ experience in education and community development in Kenya, with experience as a teacher and high school principal. Before joining Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, Deogratius worked at McKinsey Social Initiative’s Generation programme (education and employment programme) in Kenya, where he managed partnerships with employers, and coordinating with programme staff and donors. Prior to this, he worked as a Strategic Planning consultant for Action Aid, Senior Outcomes Manager at Moringa School, a teacher and a high school principal.

Anna supports the Senior Sustainability Manager on the delivery of our Planet projects, including climate action and water stewardship initiatives. With a degree in Social Anthropology with Development, Anna also brings extensive practical experience in charity management and operational roles across a variety of causes, with a particular focus on Mental Health and International Development. Whilst at University, Anna headed up Edinburgh Global Partnerships, a student-run charity partnering with local communities on sustainable grassroots projects across Africa and East Asia. Before joining Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, Anna worked at various organisations including, Shout UK, Business in the Community, and the Chartered Institute of Fundraising.