Joanne Cetti, “Jo”

Jo became a trustee of Five Talents at the end of 2021. After studying geography as an undergraduate, she joined the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office in the late 1990s and has had a varied career at home and overseas. Her first posting was to Uganda, which started a lifelong love affair with Africa and an interest in development projects that work on the ground rather than in conferences or textbooks.

She has been a trustee of various charities and benevolent organisations with very different remits but which could all be described as trying to help people improve their lives. She enjoys travel, cookery, singing, and more recently, as mum to two small boys, has developed an interest in dinosaurs, diggers and The Gruffalo.

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