Margaret started at The Fred Hollows Foundation in 2022 playing a key role in managing the fundraising offices’ financial reporting, Treasury, and statutory compliance functions.
Margaret has significant experience in the registered charity and limited company sector. She has also worked as a management consultant and as a teacher. Her most recent role was as Finance Manager at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art but she is delighted now to be supporting the life-changing work that we do at The Foundation.
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Manishkumar Mehta
Partner Portfolio Manager![](/getattachment/About/UK-Trustees/picture.jpg.aspx?lang=en-GB&width=233&height=174)
Manishkumar Mehta has been working for the Fred Hollows Foundation since July 2017 starting as Regional Operations Coordinator (East Asia) and progressed to Partner Portfolio Manager (Global) role in 2021 providing his vital support in policies, processes, frameworks, implementation of partnership domain including leading on Partner capacity building globally.
Manish brings over 28 years of Non-Profit sector experience from 8 out of top 10 international NGOs such as AKDN, Oxfam, Plan-International, Tear Fund, UNICEF, Save the Children, Red Cross and the FHF covering Sudan, Kenya, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Bhutan, Thailand, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines, China, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Eritrea, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Myanmar. Manish has served in various senior management roles providing strategic and operational leaderships, managing people, partners, programs, and compliances.
The spectrum of Manish’s experience covers program quality, inclusion (gender, disability, ethnic community rights), partnership (GO and NGOs), fundraising, grants management, safeguarding, internal and external compliances in various sectors such as natural resources (land, water and forestry), SWC (soil and water conservation), Public Health & communicable diseases, WASH (infrastructure and governance), risk reduction and resilience, civil infrastructure (irrigation, shelter, water, and sanitation), DRR & climate change adaptation, education in emergency and leading humanitarian/emergency responses.
Dr Lila Raj Puri![](/getmedia/d7c29f85-1b4a-41ed-96a3-8eecf8edfa42/dr-lila-raj-puri-334x350px.jpg.aspx?width=233&height=244)
Medical Advisor - Asia
Dr Lila Raj Puri is the Medical Advisor- Asia to The Fred Hollows Foundation and Alina Vision’s global Medical Advisor. An ophthalmologist, oculoplastic surgeon and public health specialist, Dr Lila completed his degree in Ophthalmology at the Institute of Medicine, Nepal, fellowship in oculoplasty from Ludwiig Maximillians University in Munich and Master of Public Health for Eye Care from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He is an ophthalmologist with over 14 years of experience in clinical and surgical management of eye diseases, and hospital management. He also has vast clinical experience, having performed more than 70,000 cataract surgeries.
Previously, Dr Lila worked as an ophthalmologist and the Medical Director of the Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital in Lahan, one of Nepal’s largest eye hospitals. As an Associate Professor, he has trained national and international ophthalmologists in cataract surgeries, as well as overseeing the training of optometrists, residents, and nurses.
He has keen interest in research with several publications in national and international peer reviewed journals. He advises on programmes and projects on eye health in the Asia region and leads the development and implementation of clinical governance frameworks. He also supports ophthalmologist training and quality assurance at Alina Vision Hospital.
Louisa Syrett
Head of Gender Advocacy & Engagement![](/getmedia/b878f818-d093-4fa4-bfbe-8ceed017f561/louisa-syrett-263x350px.png.aspx?width=233&height=310)
Over her career, Louisa has developed a deep understanding of Palestine, the Gulf and key countries across sub-Saharan Africa, where she has cultivated a number of high-profile strategic partnerships.
Louisa has brought more than 15 years of experience in senior roles to The Foundation, including six years at the British Council, where she founded the global innovation challenge #ideaschangelives and empowered colleagues to create strategic partnerships with other organisations where the British Council could extend its impact and reach, and be more innovative. Louisa also spent three years at Save the Children, where she led income growth of 926% through a range of new partnerships that focussed on supporting the newly launched UK poverty portfolio.
Louisa holds a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and History) from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Arts (Cyberculture and the Law) from Macquarie University. She is a member of the BOND SDG Steering Committee, Vice Chair for Sutton Vision, a small sight-loss charity in the London borough of Sutton, and Vice Chair for the John and Joan Corfield Charitable Trust, a small charity dedicated to supporting young people involved in sport in Streatham.