Charles Rycroft is a man for all seasons with an infectious enthusiasm for finding creative solutions to vexing problems. He has been a writer, journalist, photographer, video documentary-maker, corporate communications expert and now is with IWNC in Beijing as a Principal Consultant focusing on the non-profit sector.

Charles sees his own greatest achievement as building and nurturing some of the happiest and most productive communication and fundraising teams in UNICEF— teams which many other colleagues sought (and fought) to be part of. UNICEF’s global Head of Training described Charles as “a world class trainer and certainly the finest facilitator who never worked for the UNICEF Training Section.”

A native of the UK and a Law/Sociology graduate from Durham University, Charles's second working language is Italian though he continues to struggle with Chinese, after spending the past eight and a half years in Beijing