Norman W. Holton - Director - became interested in international culture and business early in his career, living in Guyana and Trinidad in the mid 1970’s. Norm, a geologist with 35 years of experience in the oil business, has founded a number of successful oil and gas enterprises and brings substantial business and management experience to the Foundation. He is now Executive Chairman of Loon Energy Inc., a publicly-listed international oil and gas exploration and development company, with interests in Brunei, Peru, Colombia and Syria. Norm has traveled extensively and believes that innovative approaches, such as those promoted by The Fig Tree Foundation, are needed to increase the effective delivery of assistance in developing countries.

Terry Booth - Director - is a Chartered Accountant and is currently a partner with Collins Barrow LLP. Terry first became interested in international development issues when he accepted a transfer to Russia in the early 90’s. Terry has traveled extensively and has a keen interest in international development and sustainability, particularly in Central America. Terry has led a number of corporate social responsibility teams during his career. His professional career focuses on entrepreneurial clients, he is a strong believer in that the best practices learned from entrepreneurs can be translated into international development projects.

Dr. Bob Schulz - Director - is a Professor of Strategic Management with the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, where he has taught since 1973. His practical approach has resulted in 21 awards for outstanding teaching, including "top 10" among 39,000 professors in Canada. He was an Adjunct Professor with the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame in 2008, teaching Business Strategy to MBA students and will be facilitating(with Paul Gomes) an intensive course using the Fig Tree Foundation as a live case for Notre Dame MBAs in March 2010. He has served as a Director on Calgary Economic Development and on the imagineCALGARY Taskforce, planning ahead for the next 100 years. Bob has an extensive network of people and organizations that could be interested in linking with the Fig Tree Foundation.

Ugochukwu (Ugo) Ukpabi - Director - Born in the South-eastern part of Nigeria, Ugo practiced corporate/commercial law with leading law firms in Lagos, Nigeria, after being admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 1995. As a senior member of the Nigerian Bar, Ugo developed a keen interest in foreign investment law-particularly with respect to the oil and gas industry, negotiating and drafting complex commercial agreements between foreign companies and their Nigerian partners, and representing clients in commercial arbitrations and before all levels of Nigerian courts especially in the area of investment litigation. Attracted to Canada on a graduate scholarship in 2001, Ugo completed his doctorate in international trade law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, and was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 2008.

John Moreland - Director - has worked in the international oil and gas business throughout his career, has travelled widely, and has lived overseas for many years in South America and the Far East. He is a geologist with 35 years experience, and is currently President and co-founder of Bolivar Energy Inc., a private Alberta corporation focussed on exploration and production of oil and gas in Colombia. John has seen at first hand the impact that simple, inexpensive, self-motivated initiatives have achieved, and supports devolvement at the grassroots level. Effective communication between all stakeholder groups has been the key to success in most, if not all of the projects John has been involved with, and The Fig Tree Foundation, particularly the Roundtable, works to optimise that process.

Paul Gomes - Director - is the President and Founder of Magellan Corporate Strategies Inc. He began his career in the investment industry after completing his studies in Economics and Political Science at the University of Calgary in 1993. In 2001, Paul and his wife embarked on a year long journey around the world which would expose them to some of the crushing poverty and economic inequalities that exist in many developing countries. Paul returned to the investment industry in 2004 with the desire to engage investment professionals in the quest to find new solutions to old problems and to encourage them to use their gifts and skills in order to find those solutions. In 2007, Paul left the industry again to spend more time and energy volunteering with the Fig Tree Foundation.