Our Team

Prior to starting with PET, Charlie helped found and then worked as a National Coordinator for The World Transformed (TWT), a left wing politics and arts festival and all-year-round political education project. He has over 8 years experience of developing political education, coordinating projects, fundraising and building partnerships with a range of progressive organisations and campaigns. Previous to that he worked in education and as a homeless support worker.

Email: cclarke@plutoeducationaltrust.org

Anne is a finance professional with 18 years of cross-industry experience in financial strategy and risk management, treasury and performance management, financial control and compliance. She is actively involved in improving financial processes and building models to support decision making, as well as tailored software development and implementation. Anne is also providing support to micro-enterprises with charitable, educational and social focus.

Eve coordinates activities and projects at the Pluto Educational Trust and is the Journals Manager of 21 social science journals at Pluto Journals. Eve has worked across South and Southeast Asia as an auditor and consultant, specialising in responsible production and consumption, reduced inequalities, inclusive and quality education and responsible tourism development.

Mohammed Elnaiem is Director of the Decolonial Centre. He is an activist, and is also working on a Ph.D. in Sociology at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he is writing a dissertation on the relationship between capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy. 

David is a Guyanese novelist, poet and academic. He was Guyana's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1997 to 2010 and Guyana's Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015. He is one of the longest serving diplomats in the history of Guyana, with most of his work done in a voluntary capacity. He served at the University of Warwick from 1984 to 2017 as director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies and Professor of Postcolonial Literature.

Veruschka has worked internationally in academic and professional publishing for 20 years. She has worked across the spectrum for Oxford University Press, Berg Publishers (now Bloomsbury), Earthscan (now Taylor & Francis), Pickering & Chatto and with digital suppliers. In 2012, she founded digital sustainability publisher DoSustainability. Veruschka brings an experienced, dynamic focus that drives Pluto Press into new and exciting spheres.

In the past 40 years Roger has owned and directed two independent publishing companies: Zed Books (1976–86) and Pluto Press (1987–2012). Roger’s lifelong interest in global affairs is expressed in the wide and diverse lists of both publishers. Roger founded Pluto Educational Trust in 2010 and currently manages Pluto Journals.

Email: rogervz@plutoeducationaltrust.org

Pauline has worked in alternative trade, social enterprises and charitable organisations for over 30 years. Pauline is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Fair Trade. She is a board member of Divine Chocolate, the Transnational Institute and the Rwenzori Sustainable Trade Centre, Uganda.

Email: ptiffen@plutoeducationaltrust.org

Fiona was raised in South Africa, where she was active in the anti-apartheid movement. Since 1995, Fiona has been Executive Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Fiona also serves on the board of De Goede Zaak, the Advisory Board of the European Masters in Global Studies (University of Leipzig), and Friends of Code Rood. She holds an MA in Development Studies from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Ian is a chartered accountant who has worked in banking and insurance for the past 40 years. He is currently a non-executive director of a London market insurance firm and has for the past 10 years also been a senior advisor at the Bank of England. Ian has been active in public and charitable organisations and was for 9 years the Honorary Treasurer of the children's charity Barnardo's.

Desta Haile brings 20 years of experience in education, social justice, and the performing arts. Formerly Director of London’s Africa Writes and Film Africa festivals, she was the runner-up for the Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize, run by Cassava Republic Press and chaired by Bernardine Evaristo, in 2024.

Uma Mishra-Newbery is a global social justice and women’s rights leader, anti-racist and somatic facilitator and coach, former Executive Director of Women’s March Global, the initiator of the Racial Equity Index, a former organizational development and racial equity senior consultant with The Better Org, and the Interim Executive Director of FRIDA - The Young Feminist Fund. Uma is fluent in Hindi, English, and conversational French and is a celebrated children’s picture book author.

Leila Moore is the Founder and CEO of Ethos Publishing Consulting, a publishing consultancy dedicated to advancing the public good. She has nearly two decades of experience in scholarly publishing working across both books and journals, with expertise in open research, publishing policy, and championing more ethical and inclusive publishing practices.

Denis is an Irish communications professional with twenty years' experience working with civil society and research. Since 2016, Denis has been Head of Communications at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, where he leads communications across digital, publications, media and multimedia. Originally from Dublin, Denis has lived in Amsterdam since 2006.