The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Announces Expansion of Leadership Team

London (ots/PRNewswire) -

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) today announces
the strengthening of its leadership team as it undertakes a major
expansion of its activities. Jamie Cooper-Hohn, who remains
Non-Executive Chair, is joined as CEO by Michael Anderson who most
recently was the UK Prime Minister's Special Envoy on the UN
Development Goals.

Michael will join CIFF on September 1st from the UK Department for
International Development, where he held a wide range of senior roles
over 10 years, including a posting in India and, most recently,
working directly with Prime Minister David Cameron in preparing for
this year's G8. He also brings to CIFF a legal background, private
sector experience, and very much shares CIFF's commitment to evidence
based interventions, rigorous data driven programming and
accountability.

As Non-Executive Chair, Jamie, who has led CIFF since co-founding
it in 2003, will continue to facilitate development of CIFF's
strategy with the Board and the CEO. She will also devote more time
to strengthening CIFF's links with other global development leaders
to enable greater international co-ordination in addressing the most
important issues for children. Jamie's immediate priority will be to
widen and improve understanding of how undernutrition is holding back
health, education and economic outcomes. She will also work to
further mobilize the global leadership to take necessary action to
resolve the issue.

CIFF has made very significant contributions towards improving
child survival, learning gains and nutritional outcomes. Over the
past four years, CIFF has increased its investments significantly,
reaching $87million in annual investment in 2012. In June 2013, in
partnership with the UK and Brazilian governments, CIFF led the
launch of a seven-year initiative to tackle undernutrition. CIFF
announced a commitment of $700 million over the next seven years
towards the initiative.

Michael Anderson, CIFF's incoming CEO, said: "I am honoured and
excited to join the CIFF team. The commitment of the Founders, Chris
and Jamie, to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable
children is inspiring -- and one, which I share. CIFF is dedicated to
making the biggest possible impact with limited resources by adhering
to rigorous evidence, asking hard questions, and bringing a business
lens to tough problems. These are features which I have emphasised in
my own work at DFID in recent years, and where I feel I can make a
real contribution."

Jamie Cooper Hohn, Chair of CIFF's Board, said: "Our work in child
survival and undernutrition has given us a clear view of what is
needed to achieve change at a global scale. It has underlined the
importance of CIFF's core values of results impact and accountability
for children. It has also highlighted a need within CIFF for
additional talent and experience in the decade ahead for the
foundation to be even more influential and impactful."

"We have great confidence that Michael has the global leadership,
political savvy, development sector acumen and readiness to lead CIFF
through this new period of growth."

About CIFF

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (http://www.ciff.org) is
an independent, philanthropic organisation, which aims to
demonstrably improve the lives of children in developing countries by
achieving large-scale, sustainable impact. We believe that every
child deserves to survive, thrive and mature into adulthood in a
supportive and safe environment.

CIFF invests where the evidence indicates that there is potential
to make the greatest difference. We expect to affect decision-making
about resource allocation and policy at the highest levels of
influence, and to shape the implementation of large scale programmes
in key geographies. It focuses on four Priority Impact Areas:

- Child survival
- Hunger Alleviation and Nutrition
- Educational Attainment
- Climate

With an overarching devotion to high-impact funding for children,
there are three distinctive features of CIFF's approach when
selecting and managing projects with our partners.

Clarity around success - When deciding to invest, we articulate
clearly the impact we aim to achieve, how this will be sustained
after CIFF's exit, and how an investment will advance our efforts to
achieve positive and transformational change globally.

Explicit use of data - CIFF focuses on the areas where data tells
us that we have opportunities to dramatically improve large numbers
of children's lives. Then, we use reliable evidence to monitor our
progress toward ultimate success.

Managed investing - Much of the evidence used in development work
is generated in relatively controlled settings. Translating these
insights into impact at scale requires commitment to a process of
trial, monitoring and course correction. CIFF stays engaged
throughout each investment until quality thresholds are delivered and
the programme is adequately institutionalised.

Contact: info@ciff.org, +44(0)20-7440-2357

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