Director's Profile
Donna St. Hill is Executive Director of Equity Strategies International (ESI), international advisors on development and economic governance, corporate responsibility, and philanthropy as an alternative financing strategy for development. She has advised public sector and multi-lateral agencies including the Commonwealth Secretariat, the United Nations Development Programme, and the British Council.  Private clients include corporations such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Nikko Bank in addition to private philanthropists in the UK.   Donna has advised, presented and published widely on development financing; economic governance in developing economies, poverty reduction strategies; and trade policy and development.  She is also a Commonwealth expert on gender and macroeconomic policy.  Country governments and institutions in a wide range of countries including Barbados, Cameroon, Canada, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, Mauritius and the UK have benefited from her expertise.	Donna St. Hill
Donna was recently invited to join the Clinton Global Initiative, an invitation-only organisation set up by President Bill Clinton which brings together a community of global leaders to devise and implement solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.   Donna has recently concluded a four-year term as a United Kingdom member of the European Union Economic and Social Committee where she sat on the influential sub-committee for ACP-EU Trade and Aid Relations.  In 2005, she co-founded Hooper’s African Trust which provides 10 girls in Kenya’s Masai Mara with access to secondary education each year. She is as an advisory board member of International Lawyers for Africa a charitable trust set up in partnership by the UK’s top “magic circle” law firms to develop African legal capacities.   She is a Trustee of Womankind Worldwide, a world renowned gender equality NGO with consultative status to the Economic and Social Council of the UN.  She has been the only non-United Nations representative on the United Nations Inter-Agency Taskforce on Gender and Trade based in Geneva.   Donna holds a BA in International Development from Carleton University, Canada, and read for the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in International Relations at the London School of Economics.