The AIDS in Africa Scenarios project team drew together a diversity of individuals, representing a range of skills. Below is background information about  present members of the team.

Angela Wilkinson
Project Director

Angela was the Director of the Jackson Environment Institute, University College London when she joined Shell UK Exploration and Production in 1996, as Reputation Manager in the wake of Brent Spar.  Holding a doctorate in physics, she brings over 20 years of management and consultancy experience relating to energy, environment and sustainable development, honed in a range of organisations and international bodies.

Four years ago, Angela joined the Global Business Environment Team, Shell International Limited.  She holds three key responsibilities include: the design and leadership of multi-client scenario building projects; innovating scenario thinking, building and application tools and practices; and surfacing new insights relating to socio-cultural change and sustainable development that are relevant to the Shell Group’s strategies and business plans. 

She is currently leading a scenario project to explore how societal risk perception and management might evolve over the next 20 years and managing another international scenario project, led by UNAIDS, addressing the AIDS in Africa issue.
Angela is married, with two young children.

Julia Cleves
UNAIDS Senior Advisor

Julia Cleves is UNAIDS’ principal adviser on the Scenario Project and has worked for UNAIDS for three years, initially as the Chief of the Executive Director’s office, and as then as the head of Policy Coordination. She is on special leave of absence from the UK’s Department for International Development, where she headed up DFID’s health and population work in India for four years, and then took up the position of deputy chief health and population adviser. She has spent ten years living and working in India, including a four year stint with Oxfam. She has a PhD in international development, and is the author of four books on health and development.

Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Events Organiser

As a Zimbabwean national, my interest and involvement in the AIDS pandemic started in the early 80’s when my mother, an HIV/AIDS Specialist/Medical Doctor in Zimbabwe, got involved in the first HIV/AIDS programmes. Just before moving to the UK, I worked for an overland tour operator, which gave me the opportunity to travel throughout Southern Africa where I learnt about different African cultures and languages. In the UK, I spent two years in the high pace recruitment consultancy industry, where I acquired strong business acumen and excellent organisation, presentation and selling skills. Finally, just before joining the scenarios team, I worked for the United Nations Association (UNA) in London as a Research Officer, under the direct supervision of the Director Malcolm Harper. In particular, I had the chance to run my own research project on “HIV/AIDS in Africa”, which consisted of surveying the local NGO’s in Southern Africa in order to draw the picture of the local response to the AIDS pandemic and build recommendations for the UNA’s Policy Statement for the Annual Conference meeting in May 2003. In addition to my knowledge of four African languages, I also have conversational French, having recently taken a 6 months French course on the French Riviera.