Our Executive and Directors Team

Chief Executive

Richard became Chief Executive of Terrence Higgins Trust in March 2023. He was previously the charity’s Campaigns Director and interim Head of Policy & Public Affairs.

Richard led a year’s worth of activity to mark 40 years since Terry Higgins became the first named person to die of an AIDS-related illness and our charity was established in his name. Other key successes include an integral role in securing Government funding for the NHS for opt-out HIV testing in emergency departments – now totally over £67 million in four years – and leading on work to successfully overturn bans for serving in the military, as a pilot and “driving with AIDS” for people living with HIV and discriminatory exclusions in blood donation for gay and bisexual men and those primarily from the UK’s black communities.

A graduate of the University of Birmingham, Richard was previously Director at think tank Progress and worked with political leaders in both the UK and Australia. He also has a history of providing policy, communications and fundraising strategy advice to organisational leaders across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Director of Fundraising and Communications

Dominic Edwardes joined the charity’s marketing team in 1999. Since then he has been responsible for the development of the Terrence Higgins Trust brand, has worked on over 30 behaviour change campaigns and led development of the charity's digital presence.

Dominic has a strong commitment to providing evidence-based, user-tested health and social care information. He was Co-Chair of the Executive Council of The Information Standard from 2012 to 2015 and Chair of the Advisory Board from 2015 to 2017.

Prior to joining the charity, he worked in academic publishing on a wide range of humanities and social science subjects.

Dominic is the Freedom to Speak Up director lead.

Director of Delivery

Eugene joined the charity in 2021 to lead the lived experience programme, and now oversees the HIV support services provided by the organisation. They are responsible for everything from THT Direct and HIV Prevention England to our Living Well and counselling services, and our services in Brighton and Hove and Scotland.

In addition to living with HIV for over a decade, Eugene brings 15 years of consulting experience, supporting large public and private sector organisations to make transformational change in the delivery of their aims and objectives. Their role is instrumental in meeting our new focus and goals, involving service users and ensuring health equity is at the heart of our services.
 
They have a popular TikTok channel talking, among other things, about HIV and their HIV story. Eugene graduated from Quinn School of Business at University College Dublin with a degree in International Commerce and French, including a year at ESSEC Business School in France, is a Chartered Management Accountant, and has a qualification in teaching relationships and sex education at secondary level.

Eugene is the Safeguarding director lead.

Director of Corporate Services

Caroline has over 30 years’ experience of financial and operational management at organisations in the UK and internationally. Previous not-for-profit roles include senior positions at Mildmay Uganda, Citizens UK and Publish What You Pay.

As well as a wealth of finance and operational management experience, Caroline is a member is the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and also has a master’s in International Development from the University of Bath.

As Director of Finance, she is responsible for strategic and operational financial management across the organisation, balancing the need for long term financial security of the charity (including its subsidiaries) and the importance of delivering services. Part of this role involves the monitoring and management of risk across the organisation, making sure that appropriate mitigations are in place to protect the charity.

Caroline is the Company Secretary.

Medical Director

Kate began working in the NHS in 1999 and has specialised in sexual health since 2003. She is passionate about ensuring good healthcare is a right and reality for everyone and has a wealth of experience, including working as a speciality doctor in sexual health and HIV at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and doctoral researcher at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Kate currently works as a Gender Clinician and Endocrinology Specialist at the Welsh Gender Service in Cardiff.
 
In 2012, Kate founded Clinic-T – a sexual health and contraception clinic led by and for trans and non-binary people in Brighton, in partnership with Terrence Higgins Trust. The clinic provides an inclusive and non-judgemental service and addresses the gap in sexual and reproductive health information for this community. As Medical Director, Kate utilises her clinical expertise to ensure no one is left behind as we target ending new HIV cases by 2030.

Members of the Executive Team can be contacted by emailing [email protected].