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For enquiries from the media only, please call the Press Office hotline on: (01865) 472498 or email media.unit@oxfam.org.uk with enquiries during office hours (9.00 am – 5.30 pm UK time).

If out of office hours please call the Duty Press Officer on 07748 761999.

If you are calling about advertising / marketing, are a student requesting information about or images of Oxfam’s work, or have any other enquiries please call: 0300 200 1300 or email enquiries@oxfam.org.uk.

General:
General enquiries | Features and stories | Black minority and ethnic media | Digital media

Issues:
Economic crises, aid, health and education | Poverty in the UK | Humanitarian crises | Climate change | Trade, food and agriculture

PR:
Shops and fund-raising | Celebrities

Sam Barratt, Head of Media

Sam has run Oxfam’s Media Unit since 2005. Based in Oxford, the team comprises fifteen members of staff who lead on Oxfam’s international media campaigns on trade, humanitarian disasters, aid and debt as well as a UK PR team for 750 shops and individual appeals.

Sam has worked for Oxfam since 2000, leading on all of Oxfam’s campaigns as well as events such as Oxfam’s response to the tsunami, the WTO meetings in Cancun and the war in Afghanistan. He has travelled and worked widely across the world, working for a year developing Oxfam’s media and campaigns work in east Africa. Prior to working for Oxfam, Sam worked for more than three years in corporate public relations.

Direct line: 01865 472498
Mobile: 07818 406050
Email: sbarratt@oxfam.org.uk

Jen Corlew, Head of News

Jen Corlew is Head of News. She oversees planning and day to day output in the press office across all three campaigns and humanitarian emergencies, and manages the senior press officers. She worked previously as Media Director for Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) and Regional Media Director for Amnesty International USA.

Direct line: 01865 472313
Mobile: 07879 244 705
Email: jcorlew@oxfam.org.uk

Giulia Biasibetti, PR Media Executive

Giulia is the first point of contact for media enquiries and image requests from journalists. She works on the team’s Monitoring and Evaluation and also supports on special projects.

Giulia previously worked as a media analyst, speaks four languages and has a background in professional translation.

Direct line: 01865 472334
Email: gbiasibetti@oxfam.org.uk

Features

Lysbeth Holdoway, Features Coordinator

Lys is features coordinator for the press office - both written and photographic. She is the media contact for Eastern Europe, and also the contact for media enquiries about Coldplay and Oxfam. Lys has been with Oxfam since 1999, previously working as a BBC journalist in both television and radio.

Direct line: 01865 472484
Mobile: 07721 461342
Email: lholdoway@oxfam.org.uk

BME media

Jonaid Jilani,

Jonaid Jilani works as a press officer for the Oxfam media unit, he should be contacted if your enquiries are about disaster risk reduction and climate change.
Jonaid is also working with Black Minority and Ethnic media in the UK.

Before joining Oxfam in 2009, Jonaid worked for Muslim Aid as a Communications Manager. He also has a background in film and video production and has worked extensively with ethnic TV channels in the UK.

Direct line: 44 (0) 18 65 472193
Mobile: 44 (0) 7810 181514
Email: jjilani@oxfam.org.uk

Digital media

Sarah Brown,

Sarah Brown is senior press officer for digital services, leading on Oxfam’s online and interactive strategies. Before joining Oxfam she worked for the Al Jazeera English website, first in the Middle East and then in the US covering the country’s 2008 election. She also previously worked for the BBC News website in London and as a financial journalist.

Direct line: 01865 472498
Email: sbrown@oxfam.org.uk

Economic crises, aid, health and education

Jon Slater, Senior Press Officer

Jon Slater is Senior Press Officer for Essential Services leading on health and education for all, overseas aid and the effect of the economic crisis on poor people.

Jon joined Oxfam in September 2008 after more than a decade working as a national print journalist, press officer for other development NGOs and political adviser.

Direct line: 01865 472249
Mobile: 07876 476403
Email: jslater@oxfam.org.uk

Sarah Dransfield, Press Officer

Sarah is the main point of contact for Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme and also works on the Essential Services campaign, which focuses on the provision of health and education for all.

Sarah previously worked as a reporter at music festivals for the Oxfam youth website and has a background in fashion PR and copywriting.

Direct line: 01865 472269
Email: sdransfield@oxfam.org.uk

Humanitarian and Emergencies

Ian Bray, Senior Press Officer

Ian heads up the humanitarian side of the media unit. Please contact Ian if your enquiry relates to any humanitarian emergency.

Ian has worked for Oxfam for more than ten years, first as an aid worker in Mozambique, then as a press officer. He also has more than seven years’ experience as an aid worker in Indonesia and southern Africa.

Direct line: 01865 472289
Mobile: 07721 461339
Email: ibray@oxfam.org.uk

Caroline Gluck, Press Officer

Caroline Gluck works as a field-based press officer for the humanitarian team, responding to media needs when humanitarian crises develop.

Before joining Oxfam in September 2008, she worked in Asia for more than a decade as a correspondent for BBC Radio, Television and Online. She’s also written for a variety of other media publications, including The Times and The Economist.

Mobile: 0786 797 6041
Email: cgluck@oxfam.org.uk
Skype: carolineoxfam

Rebecca Wynn, Press Officer

Rebecca Wynn works as a press officer for the humanitarian team. She should be contacted if your enquiry is about Darfur, Chad or the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Before joining Oxfam, Rebecca worked as a media and communications officer for the International Organization for Migration in Southern Africa.

Direct line: 01865 472530
Mobile: 07769 887139
Email: rwynn@oxfam.org.uk

Climate Change

Natalie Curtis, Senior Press Officer

Natalie Curtis is a Senior Press Officer in the Media Unit and should be contacted if your enquiry relates to climate change, food, trade negotiations or West Africa.

Before joining Oxfam Natalie led the media work of the 300 NGO-strong Cluster Munition Coalition, leading to a treaty banning cluster bombs in 2008. She has worked for UNICEF, Comic Relief, The Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and UK children’s paper First News. Natalie has worked widely across the world, including Uganda, Tanzania, Lebanon and Lao.

Direct line: +44 (0) 18 65 472037
Mobile: +44 (0) 7824 503108
Email: ncurtis@oxfam.org.uk

Lucy Brinicombe, Senior Press Officer

Lucy Brinicombe is the climate change press officer focussing on the national media in the UK. She has worked for Oxfam for two and a half years. Before working at Oxfam, Lucy was a journalist for six years, working on both regional and national titles.

As climate change press officer, she was at the UN climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland, in December 2008, and also carried out climate work for last year’s G8. She has also worked on Oxfam’s biofuels campaign. Lucy can be contacted for UK and international climate change enquiries.

She is also the main contact for Oxfam’s work in Latin America.

Direct line: +44 (0)1865 472192
Mobile: +44 (0)7786 110054
Email: lbrinicombe@oxfam.org.uk

PR Team

Katie Abbotts, Head of PR

Leads on planning and delivery of Oxfam’s PR and Celebrity work in
the UK. Katie is also repsonsible for evaluation of Oxfam’s media work.

Katie has worked at Oxfam for four years. Prior to that she was an account director at a London PR agency.

Direct line: 01865 472375
Mobile: 07810 504380
Email: kabbotts@oxfam.org.uk

Stuart Fowkes, Senior PR Press Officer

Stuart is Oxfam’s senior PR press officer. Stuart’s work is focused on developing Oxfam’s brand in the UK media and increasing the organisation’s fundraising opportunities through the media.

He is the first point of contact for enquiries about Oxfam shops and trading, clothing and fashion, donations, the Oxfam and Marks & Spencer partnership, the Oxjam music festival and Oxfam at the festivals.

Prior to joining Oxfam in 2006, Stuart worked as a PR consultant, and also has a background in fundraising through music.

Direct line: 01865 472254
Mobile: 07818 406038
Email: sfowkes@oxfam.org.uk

Rose Marsh, Press Officer

Rose works on Festivals, Oxfam Unwrapped, and our sponsored events including Trailwalker and Trailtrekker.

Direct line: 01865 472375
Mobile: 07909 860370
Email: rmarsh@oxfam.org.uk

Celebrities

Claire Lewis, International Artist Liaison Manager

Claire should be contacted if your enquiry relates to Oxfam’s work with our international celebrity supporters.

Mobile: 07810 406010
Email: clewis@oxfam.org.uk

Raakhi Shah, UK Artists Liaison Manager

Raakhi works as UK Artists Liaison Manager. Raakhi should be contacted if your enquiry relates to any of Oxfam’s work with our UK celebrity supporters.

Direct line: 01865 47 2243
Mobile: 07795 304351
Email: rshah@oxfam.org.uk

Regional offices

Uamdao Noikorn, Regional media coordinator in East Asia

Uamdao is regional media coordinator in East Asia covering all Oxfam’s programmes in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia. Before joining Oxfam in 2008, she was a journalist for Associated Press, Japanese newspapers as well as media coordinator and trainer at Internews.

Direct line: +66 (0) 2 632 0033 ext. 123
Mobile: +66 (0) 81 855 3196
Email: unoikorn@oxfam.org.uk

Alun McDonald, Regional media coordinator Horn, East, Central Africa

Alun McDonald is based in Nairobi and is the contact for anything in the Horn, East and Central Africa region - covering Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia, Tanzania and all countries in between. He previously worked for Oxfam for three years in Sudan, covering the Darfur crisis.

Direct line: +254 73666 6663
Email: amcdonald@oxfam.org.uk

Charles Bambara, Regional Media Officer

Charles Bambara is covering the West Africa region including some central African countries: Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Central Africa Republic, and Gabon. Charles has previously worked for the BBC World Service for eighteen years and has travelled extensively in West and Central Africa. He also worked for Vatican Radio, and on Television and Radio in Burkina Faso his country of origin. He was the UK correspondent of Les Afriques a pan-African financial newspaper.

Direct line: +221 859 3700
Mobile: +221 776 394 178
Email: cbambara@oxfam.org.uk

Michel Anglade, Regional Campaigns and Policy Manager

Direct line: + 91 98 18 63 64 20 (Based in New Delhi, India)

Jennifer Abrahamson, media coordinator for the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Jennifer Abrahamson is media coordinator and press officer for the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

She has worked for the Oxfam family for the past 2.5 years. Prior to joining Oxfam she worked as a UN press officer and freelance journalist, living and working in Central, Southern and East Africa, Afghanistan and New York.

Direct line: + 44 (0) 1865 47 3152
Mobile:+44 (0) 781 081 4980
Email: jabrahamson@oxfam.org.uk

Michael Bailey, Media coordinator for Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories

Mike Bailey has been living in and working from Jerusalem since January 2006. He has worked for Oxfam since the end of 2006 and has been focussed for most of his time on Gaza. His job combines media work with advocacy. He is OI media lead for oxfam’s work in occupied Palestinian territory and Israel and is the main OI spokesperson there.

Email: mbailey@oxfam.org.uk

Nicole Johnston, Media coordinator Southern Africa

Nicole joined Oxfam in March, as media and communcations coordinator for the Southern Africa region – speak to her for all media queries about Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Originally from Zimbabwe, Nicole has worked in media in the region for about 15 years: prior to joining Oxfam she was development editor at the Mail & Guardian where she also ran the newsroom training programme.

Direct line: +27 12 423 9900/ 9918
Mobile: +27 82 468 1905
Email: njohnston@oxfam.org.uk

Oxfam Ireland

Paul Dunphy, Media and Communications Executive

Paul works as Media and Communications Executive on all areas of Oxfam Ireland’s work including campaigning, overseas, retail and fundraising. Paul should be contacted with any enquiries from Irish media outlets.

Paul has worked at Oxfam Ireland for since 1996 in all areas of communications. Paul is the first point of contact for all Republic of Ireland enquiries.

Direct line: +353 1 6350 422
Mobile: +353 (0)879058075
Email: paul.dunphy@oxfamireland.org

Phillip Graham, Media and Communications Officer

Phillip Graham works as Media and Communications Officer on all areas of Oxfam Ireland’s work including campaigning, overseas, retail and fundraising. Phillip should be contacted with any enquiries from Irish media outlets.

Phillip joined Oxfam Ireland in 2007 from working with Ulster Tatler magazine. Phillip is the first point of contact for all Northern Ireland enquiries.

Direct line: 028 9089 5959
Mobile: 07841 102535
Email: phillip.graham@oxfamireland.org

Oxfam Scotland

Aideen McLaughlin, Media and New Media Officer

Aideen McLaughlin is Media and New Media Officer with Oxfam Scotland. She works mainly on Climate Change and Humanitarian stories and looks after Oxfam Scotland’s online presence. She has been with Oxfam since April 2009. Previously, she worked as media and communications officer for Scottish Refugee Council. Prior to that, she was a print journalist on staff and freelance for various titles including Sunday Herald, The Herald and Big Issue in Scotland magazine.

Email: amclaughlin@oxfam.org.uk

Stefan Lach, Media and PR Officer

Stef Lach is a Media and PR Officer with Oxfam Scotland, based in Glasgow. Stef works mainly on Oxfam’s Health and Education For All campaign and also deals with Trading and the UK Poverty programme.
Before joining Oxfam in November 2009, Stef spent four years as a journalist, most recently as Chief Reporter at the Kilmarnock Standard.

Email: slach@oxfam.org.uk

Oxfam Cymru

Luned Jones, Media and Communications Officer

Luned is Media & Public Relations Manager for Oxfam in Wales, leading Oxfam’s engagement with the Welsh media across all areas of our work from Humanitarian emergencies and development issues to our campaigns and shops.
Luned joined Oxfam in 2007 and previously worked as a Press and PR officer for the Welsh Language Board and as a Literature officer for Academi.

Direct line: 02920 803292
Mobile: 07887 571687
Email: lujones@oxfam.org.uk

UK Nations and Regions

English regions

North West

Serena Tramonti, Media Campaigner

Serena Tramonti is the media campaigner for the North West, covering Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Cumbria. Serena works with activists, campaigners, shop staff and volunteers to promote Oxfam and its messages. If you have any queries about Oxfam in the North West please get in contact.

Direct line: 0161 234 2922
Email: stramonti@oxfam.org.uk

Midlands

Richard Fern, Media Campaigner

Richard is the Media Campaigner for the Midlands. Based in Birmingham his patch extends from the Welsh border to Leicestershire and from Worcester to Derby. He works on campaigns like climate change, education and health, as well as on wider Oxfam stories such as volunteers, shops and festivals.

Email: rfern@oxfam.org.uk

South West

Hannah Durrant, Media Campaigner

Hannah is the Media Campaigner for the South West region, covering everywhere from Wiltshire and Gloucestershire down to the tip of Cornwall. Oxfam Campaigns in the South West works with allies, schools and youth and our many supporters to make our campaigns stand out across the region. If you want a regional perspective on Oxfam’s major Climate Change campaign or on our Health and Education For All campaign, or you are keen to follow up on a shops, emergency appeal or festivals story in the South West, please contact Hannah as your first port of call.

Direct line: 0117 916 6474
Email: hdurrant@oxfam.org.uk Roger James can also be contacted for media enquiries in the south-west.

London

Oxfam’s London office works with local and regional media based in Greater London, the South and East of England (including Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Isle of Wight, Channel Islands, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk).