Trustees

  • Graham Gordon

    Graham is Director of Paz y Esperanza UK, helping to set it up in 2011. He worked with Paz y Esperanza in Peru from 2003-9. Initially this was in the San Martin Office working with indigenous communities and campaigns for greater environmental protection. He then moved to Lima to focus more on national advocacy around indigenous rights and truth and reconciliation as well as working with the church in Latin America. In the UK he has worked for many years in public policy within international development organisations and is currently Head of Global Advocacy and Policy at Christian Aid. He is married to Ali with two young daughters Apphia and Isla.

  • Gordon Davies

    With an English father and an Argentine mother, Gordon has always had one foot either side of the Atlantic.  After qualifying as an engineer he worked in Chile, followed by further periods in the UK and overseas in Africa. Working in Peru for six years during the 1980s, both with the government and churches, he was present at the meeting when the ministry of ‘Paz y Esperanza’ was launched under the umbrella of the Evangelical Council of Peru (CONEP) in 1984.  Little did he think that 40 years later he would still be involved. Returning to the UK he became the Head of Region for Latin America & the Caribbean for Tearfund UK for 17 years, working with church leaders and Christian NGOs in many countries.  Peru and PyE were high on that list. Retiring in 2007 he joined forces with Graham Gordon to launch the UK arm of PyE and continues as a Trustee with responsibilities for communications with supporters and local churches.  Married to Angela who shares the interest in Latin America and who was for many years a Trustee of the mission Latin Link.

  • Suzanne Mautschke

    Suzanne developed a passion for Latin America at a young age and started learning Spanish aged 12. She first travelled to Latin America aged 16 when she did an expedition to Bolivia. She has since lived in Ecuador, Chile and Nicaragua and travelled across South and Central America. Suzanne holds a first class BA Joint Honours degree in Hispanic Studies and Media and Cultural Studies from Birmingham University. She completed a post-graduate NCTJ journalism qualification and has worked as a newspaper journalist and risk analyst. She currently lives in Surrey with her husband and two daughters and has been a trustee of Paz y Esperanza UK since 2013.

  • Vicky Mancuso Brehm

    Vicky Mancuso Brehm has worked in international development for many years, firstly as a practitioner and then as a researcher and writer on a range of development themes. In her role as a freelance Research Associate for INTRAC, she has advised a wide range of development organisations in the UK, Latin America, Europe and North Africa.  Her particular focus has been enabling organisations to develop effective partnerships, especially between international NGOs and their national partners. With a background in Geography and a Masters in Environment and Development in Latin America, Vicky started her career as part of the Latin America team at Tearfund.  She is deeply committed to the role of churches in addressing poverty and injustice, both in Latin America and in Oxford, where she lives with her husband Chris and two children.

  • Jude Collins

    With an academic background in agriculture and sustainable development, Jude spent five years living, learning and working in the Honduran rain-forest, seconded by Tearfund to local organisation Mopawi. During this time she learnt Spanish and gained a huge amount from working closely with her Honduran colleagues. She has since travelled to various other countries with Tearfund and spent three years in Nepal. Jude is currently the editor of Footsteps magazine and she co-leads Tearfund’s Communication for Development team, with particular responsibility for inclusive language and translation. Jude is married to Steve, and they have two children.

  • Mandy Marshall

    Mandy Marshall is the Director for Gender Justice at the Anglican Alliance and Anglican Communion Office. Mandy is the link Director for the global Anglican Safe Church Commission, the International Anglican Women’s Network and the International Anglican Women’s Network. She also sits on the Mother’s Union Advocacy group. Before joining the Anglican Communion, Mandy co-founded and Co-Directed Restored, an international Christian alliance to transform relationships and end violence against women. Mandy travels globally teaching, speaking and training on gender justice, equality and preventing and ending gender-based violence from a Christian faith perspective. In 2011, Mandy won a Deloitte Women Who Rock Award for her work on gender equality and ending violence against women. Mandy has written Domestic Abuse and ‘COVID-19: How Churches Can Respond’ available in seven languages, and with theologians from around the global Anglican Church, ‘God’s Justice: Theology and Gender Based Violence’ available in four languages