Gemma Burford was born in Southampton Hampshire, in 1977. She studied at Oxford University where she gained a Masters degree in Biochemistry, later followed by an MSc in Environmental Anthropology at the University of Kent.
Gemma is now a Research Officer in Sustainable Development at the University of Brighton, where she helps charities, companies and other organisations to measure some of the less tangible outcomes of their projects. Her current research focuses on systematic ways of measuring human (ethical) values.
Gemma is a co-director of the Global Initiative for Traditional Sytems (GIFTS) of Health, an Oxford-based charity, and has worked on projects with the UN Development Programme and the World Health Organisation.
On a trip to Tanzania on behalf of GIFTS in 1999, she met several like-minded people who between them set up a non-governmental organisation called Aang Serian (`House of Peace’ in the Maasai language). One of the first projects of Aang Serian was to commence building a secondary school in the mountains of Monduli, now Noonkodin Secondary School.
Gemma is also a co-founder of Olomayani Nursery School, in the same village, and helped to establish grassroots campaigns against female genital mutilation (FGM) and HIV/AIDS.
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