Dennis Orji

Dennis Orji is a graduate of Computing from Canterbury Christchurch University and the Technology Director at Bludel Technologies Limited. His key areas include:- software development, electronic security and building management systems. Dennis has worked with multi-national teams to develop and maintain mission critical systems in a wide range of industries.

Naz Khaliq

Naz Khaliq is the Managing Partner of Dynamix Group, an accountancy firm providing accountancy, taxation, VAT, payroll and business development support and implementation services across the South East and London. At Dynamix Group, Naz is tasked with various responsibilities to ensure the business is operating in the right way, and a good working relationship with the teams based in each office.

His second role within the business is to provide business development and consultancy support to small and medium sized businesses. He works closely with start-up businesses, ensuring they have the start in their business life that allows them to go from strength to strength. He also works with established businesses that are looking to push their business to the next level
His hobbies include attending Canterbury Rugby Club and Kent Cricket Club to support his two local teams.
Naz acts as Honorary Secretary and Finance Director for the Foundation.

Catherine Lloyd

Catherine Lloyd has a background in geography and tourism, and has worked for a number of years with thermal spa towns in the UK (as General Secretary of the British Spas Federation) and in Europe, representing the World Heritage City of Bath on the European Historic Thermal Towns Association. She is currently the Green Pilgrimage Network Project Officer for the Diocese of Canterbury, where she is developing partnerships and an action plan as well as looking into European funding for co-operation projects.

Catherine who has two young children and lives in Canterbury, is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. She also has an MA in Values and Environment from Lancaster University

Dr Priyali Ghosh

Dr. Priyali Ghosh is a graduate of the University of Calcutta (1994) and the University of Cambridge (1997) where she held a Nehru Centenary Scholarship awarded by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She also holds a PhD in English from the University of Kent (2009).

Priyali has strong and lasting ties to the city of Canterbury where she completed her doctoral research. Her contribution to the vision and activity of the Watling-Ubuntu Foundation is based on the following premises:

• Peace is the big question of our time. Differences in approach and opinion are a part of what makes life rich and interesting. Fear and violence curb and limit the ability of life to meet its highest potential. Our differences can and should unite us – not divide us.
• Priyali is an active and published researcher in English Studies, teacher, poet and performer. She will use her networks within the UK, India and in other countries to connect and engage with practitioners in these fields and beyond them. Her intention is to facilitate and be part of the growth of a ‘critical mass’ of people working collectively to achieve peace, locally and globally. While this may not happen in her own lifetime, she is dedicated to the effort to end all war for good.
• She sees Canterbury as a ‘little, Big City.’ It has a small population with centuries of history that is currently being reshaped by the numbers of international students and visitors it attracts. She will work to achieve public understanding of its unique cosmopolitanism and to build sustaining ties with her other hometown, Kolkata, India. Kolkata, while substantially different to Canterbury in size and demographics, also has a history of emotional and psychological growth through understanding and celebrating human differences.
• She commits to supporting the best in herself and in all those around her. Where there is full self-development there is full potential for living peace.