Andrew Cates

Andrew Cates achieved a first in Maths from Cambridge University aged 19, and continued to undertake a PhD and research fellowship in the years following.

From Cambridge Andrew moved into industrial explosion research at Shell, then strategy consultancy and by the age of 27 was working in Francophone West Africa as the CEO/chair responsible for Shell's operations in Cote D'Ivoire.

He subsequently worked as a CEO in Shell in two different billion dollar businesses, becoming the youngest senior executive in Shell in the process.

In 2004 aged 38 he traversed to the charitable sector as (part time) CEO of SOS Children UK. He is married to an eye surgeon, has three young children and is a committed Anglican.

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Different branches of same charity split over use of chugging

Fundraising | Tania Mason
9 Jun 2011

Tags: Face-to-face fundraising

The decision by orphan charity SOS Children’s Villages International to recruit a face-to-face fundraising adviser to spearhead its use of the fundraising technique in various countries, is at odds with the position of its UK branch on the use of the method.