Board of Management

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Mr. Luke Disney
Executive Director
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Luke has 10 years of experience building international public-private partnerships. In 2006, he was asked by TNT and the World Food Programme to take the reins at North Star Alliance to develop the organisation and expand its partner base. Prior to this, Luke worked on the ground-breaking TNT-WFP partnership focused on hunger relief.

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Mr. Paul Matthew
Regional Director, Southern Africa
Durban, South Africa

For two decades, Paul has been a driving force in the road freight industry’s response to AIDS. He held leadership positions with the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight Industry, the Road Transport Industry Training Board, The Learning Clinic and Ikaheng HR Services.

Ms. Eva Mwai
Regional Director, East Africa
Nairobi, Kenya

For over 20 years, Eva has worked in the field of programme management. Prior to joining North Star in 2009 as the General Manager East Africa, Eva was the CEO of St. John’s Ambulance Kenya. Eva was promoted to Director East Africa in December 2011.

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Building Technology for Health: North Star Alliance and ORTEC [VIDEO]
This week, North Star Alliance is attending the 2013 GBC Health Conference in New York, where we are being recognised alongside our long time partner ORTEC, at the Business Action on Health Awards for our electronic health passport system, COMETS. With the opening reception only hours away, and the Technology for Health Award presentation coming [...]
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Workers’ Day Outreach in Ficksburg
On International Workers’ Day, countries around the world take the time to recognise the important role that workers and labour movements have played in securing fair employment standards and building a culture respectful of worker and human rights. In 2006, we opened our first clinic (Roadside Wellness Centre) in response to the realisation that mobile [...]
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ORTEC Wins GBC Health’s ‘Business Action On Health Award’ For Their Work With North Star Alliance
We are excited and proud to announce that our partner ORTEC has won the 2013 GBC Health Business Action on Health Award in recognition of the technological and optimisation support they provide to North Star Alliance. ORTEC, who joined our network of partners in 2009, has played the primary role in the development of our [...]
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Announcing the 2012 North Star Alliance Annual Overview
Since we opened our first clinic in 2006, we take a brief moment at the end of every year to tell you all just how busy we’ve been. Today, as we officially release our latest Annual Overview, it seems fair to say that 2012 was one of our busiest. With support from partners, both old [...]
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Preventable, Curable and Claiming Lives: Malaria
For a disease that can be largely prevented and easily cured, malaria remains an unnecessarily heavy burden for many people living in sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, over 200 million malaria cases occur worldwide, claiming the lives of an estimated 660,000 people, most of them living on the African continent. As with many diseases, hard-to-reach populations, [...]
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