Sacha spent the summer of 2005 volunteering with EWB-UK on an Improved Cooking Stove (ICS) project in Nepal. On his return he co-found EWB-Nottingham driven by the idea that EWB-UK can facilitate International Development while increasing the capacity of young engineers. At the 2006 AGM he was elected on to the Board of Trustees and has been involved with various focus groups including; developing the Training and Education Strategy, overseeing the Training and bursaries programmes, the recruitment of the charities first 2 employees and Communities of Practice. Along with his formal role he has continued to project manage and mentor various ICS work undertaken by EWB-UK and lead a number of talks and workshops. Sacha is committed to raising the quality of EWB-UK’s work through building stronger: internal pools of knowledge, links within the development sector and routes to disseminate our work. This will add weight to EWB-UK’s position as an impact focused facilitator to the International Development sector.

Ian McChesney is a leading expert in technology assessment and business development for energy systems from sustainable fuels. After graduating from Imperial College as a Chemical Engineer, Ian volunteered in Ethiopia with the United Nations. He later returned to the UK and worked as a technical advisor for ITIS on projects in Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh before returning to the region to lead projects in Sudan. Ian later joined Practical Action (formerly knows as ITDG) as the programme manager for sugar and biomass energy programmes in South Asia and East Africa. Ian became the Head of Engineering for a major commercial agricultural investment in Indonesia before returning to the UK to found Energy for Sustainable Development, now a leading sustainable energy consultancy with offices in Bulgaria, Kenya, South Africa and China. More recently, Ian has been driving numerous cogeneration and biomass power projects in the UK, Europe and Africa. He has advised European governments and the UK Carbon Trust on renewable energy strategy, new markets, technologies and processes.

Steve first got involved with EWB-UK in 2003 when he quit his job as a consulting mechanical engineer to go on an EWB placement working on slum development in India. After a series of EWB-linked projects and jobs, including relief shelter and wind turbine development, Steve went on to do a Masters in Engineering for Sustainable Development at Cambridge in 2004. At that point he joined the then all-student EWB National Executive and co-ordinated the working group responsible for starting the Professional Network in response to demand from non-students for a way to interact with and contribute to EWB and it's work. For the last four years Steve has been working at the consulting arm of Practical Action (formerly ITDG) on energy access and development projects around the world. He was very pleased to be given the chance to give back to EWB when invited to join the Board of Trustees in 2008.

Hayley is in her fifth year at Bristol University studying Engineering Design. She is currently involved in a number of engineering development projects, particularly in the areas of water quality testing and small-scale energy production. Hayley has been involved in the EWB-Bristol branch in a variety of roles since 2004. In 2007-08 she was on EWB-UK's National Executive as Research Coordinator, where she worked with the Research Team to identify areas within international development where technological solutions could be beneficial, and enabling UK-based students to undertake these projects as part of their degree work. She also led the Research Team to organise the first EWB-UK National Research Conference. In the summer of 2007 Hayley won an EWB-UK Bursary to carry out a project on rural community water supply in Ecuador, and has also worked on appropriate technology projects in Havana and Boston.

Stephen is currently studying a Masters/PhD in the relationship between local governance and water and sanitation provision in Mali, in collaboration with the NGO WaterAid and Royal Holloway, University of London. He first became involved with EWB-UK in 2003, helping to expand and improve the placements scheme, and then acted as co-CEO of EWB-UK for 2005-2007. After graduating in civil engineering from Cambridge University in 2007, Stephen continued his dissertation research on low-cost earthquake resistant housing, helping to run capacity-building programmes for local NGOs in El Salvador and India. He then worked as a water and sanitation engineer for the French NGO ACTED in Kyrgyzstan before returning to the UK to pursue his postgraduate studies and research.

Sally is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol, with more than 20 years experience of teaching water and environmental management to a very wide range of students. As the Graduate Education Director for the Faculty of Engineering she also leads the development of postgraduate education in Engineering. Sally has been influential in introducing sustainability into the curriculum at Bristol, and has worked with the Royal Academy of Engineering on their national programme of design for sustainability. She has worked with EWB-Bristol for around 5 years, mainly on strengthening the links between staff and students in order to provide long-term support for EWB but also supervising EWB-linked projects. Sally has been very impressed by EWB's capacity to capture and focus student interest and enthusiasm, and to ensure that students are placed into projects where they can both learn a lot and make a genuine difference to people's lives. She was pleased to be invited to join the Board of Trustees in 2009 and hence to contribute to the longer-term development and support of EWB on a national level.

Evelyn is studying her final year of Mechanical Engineering with Management at the University of Edinburgh. She also studied at the University of California, Berkeley as part of her degree. She was elected Student Representative of the Engineering School at University of Edinburgh for 2009-2010. She is also currently working on a water treatment system with EWB, which her and fellow students will be implementing in Cambodia in the summer of 2010. Living most of her life in Brazil, there being her home country, she was constantly surrounded by the huge income discrepancies which cause millions of people to be living under poor conditions. Trying to help the impoverished, personally donating food and clothes was a habit she practiced often while on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. She was introduced to Engineers Without Borders during her first year of university, and the possible long term development solutions provided by the EWB branch in Edinburgh really inspired her, as they could be implemented in situations similar to those in her home country. An international background has also made her an open-minded and multicultural person. She is very enthusiastic about being a student trustee this year for Engineers Without Borders and hopes the strategic decisions of EWB will continue to improve the lives of those in need.