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The WAVE team

WAVE's team includes staff in WAVE's offices in London, Scotland and Italy. We also have nearly 200 70/30 ambassadors across the UK and hundreds of elected representatives committed to the 70/30 Campaign to reduce child maltreatment by 70% by the year 2030.

Read more about the core team below.

Geoffrey Dennis, CEO

With 30 years in senior and CEO roles including The British Red Cross, the Worldwide Red Cross Federation, CARE International UK and Thee Royal National Children’s Foundation, Geoffrey brings enormous breadth and depth of experience to the role.

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Geoffrey Dennis, CEO

With 30 years in senior and CEO roles including International Director of The British Red Cross, Country Director for the Worldwide Red Cross Federation in North Korea, and later overall Regional Director for the whole of South Asia, CEO of CARE International UK including running its EU office, and CEO of The Royal National Children’s Foundation, Geoffrey brings enormous breadth and depth of experience to the role.

Geoffrey is pleased to have joined a charity which he describes as ‘amazing’, and states he is incredibly impressed with the impact of WAVE Trust to date and its huge potential to transform the lives of children in the UK and across the globe.

Geoffrey holds The Badge of Honour for Distinguished Service by The International Red Cross.

Published: 28th June, 2012

Updated: 12th July, 2022

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George Hosking OBE, Scotland, Operations and Research Director

George Hosking OBE is WAVE Trust's Founder, former CEO and current Operations and Research Director. He is one of the UK's foremost experts on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and has developed a UK-wide ACE-prevention project.

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George is an economist, accountant, psychologist and clinical criminologist. He is also a traumatic stress counsellor.

Before focusing on social issues, George had a successful career in business, first as a senior line manager working in the field of international strategy, then as a strategy consultant and corporate turnaround specialist.

At 26, he became one of the youngest ever senior managers in Unilever. After a 17-year career there, where he became responsible for helping create and produce the strategic plans for 30 countries, he left to open his own consultancy. His major lines of work were international strategy and turning around loss-making businesses. He has carried out around 30 successful corporate turnarounds in a range of countries and industries, adding more than £10 million per annum to the profitability of such companies as the Mothers Pride Bread company and Booker Cash & Carry.

In the mid-1990s he founded (and for many years funded!) WAVE Trust, to adapt his corporate turnaround technique to transform the lives of children. Since then he has advised the Met Police, Scottish Government, Cabinet Office, Home Office, Departments for Education and Health and No 10 Downing Street on policies for children or to tackle violence.

As a clinical criminologist he has worked with victims and perpetrators of violence, in prisons and in the community delivering WAVE’s very successful ‘An End to Violence’ programme.

Published: 23rd September, 2018

Updated: 28th June, 2022

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Anthoulla Koutsoudi

Anthoulla Koutsoudi is WAVE Trust's Company Secretary, Director of External Relations and major donor fundraiser.

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Anthoulla was a solicitor in private legal practice for 27 years until 2009, specialising in commercial property transactions and non-contentious legal work. During the years leading up to 2009, she provided pro-bono and financial support to WAVE.

WAVE’s ever-growing sphere of influence and achievements led to an expansion of opportunities for the organisation to achieve social transformation. The possibilities excited Anthoulla such that she could no longer remain in the law. She left the legal profession in 2010 to join the management team, enabling her to present WAVE's preventive message and strategic solutions to audiences throughout the UK.

Anthoulla fulfills two key roles within WAVE:

  1. Company Secretary and in-house lawyer, including handling all internal and third party contracts, governance, dealing with Companies House & Charity Commission requirements, and liaising with and supporting the Board of Trustees.
  2. Director of External Relations and major donor fundraiser, including engaging with major supporters and ambassadors.

Published: 24th September, 2018

Updated: 30th April, 2021

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Aidan Phillips

Aidan oversees WAVE’s Self-healing Trauma-informed Communities (STiC) work, supporting community-led and statutory projects across the UK.

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Aidan oversees WAVE’s Self-healing Trauma-informed Communities (STiC) work, supporting community-led and statutory projects across the UK. He was the principal researcher in our 3-year study of severe disadvantage which identified the key role of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the pathway to homelessness, unemployment, school exclusion, mental health problems and the criminal justice system; and in a recent project which involved interviewing more than 70 practitioners across education, health, housing and policing UK-wide about trauma-informed practice.

Published: 26th April, 2021

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  • Trauma-informed Schools: Study finding links between early years ACEs and school exclusions

    Trauma-informed Schools: Study finding links between early years ACEs and school exclusions

    The exact link between the kind of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) that have the potential to cause trauma and said exclusions has often been assumed but, to Aidan Phillips' knowledge, never directly researched - until now.

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    Late nights, High risk: Adolescent brain development

    At WAVE, we talk often about the primary importance of the early years of life. But they are not the only years during which our brain and body experience rapid changes.

  • The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (2005)

    The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (2005)

    A throwback to an article written by former WAVE Trust CEO George Hosking in 2005 on understanding the cause of violence and child abuse and in turn what we can do to reduce it.

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    Southampton City Council passes a motion about WAVE Trust

    WAVE Trust are delighted to announce that Southampton City Council has become the latest local authority to pass a motion in support of working with our charity.

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    What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?

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    1001 Critical Days: The Importance of the Conception to Age Two Period

    This cross-party manifesto was produced - in partnership with WAVE - by Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom, Labour MP Frank Field, Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas.

  • About WAVE

    About WAVE

    WAVE's vision is a safer world where levels of violence are reduced and children’s physical health, mental health and life chances are maximised as they are not adversely impacted by early life trauma.

  • Trauma-informed Training

    Find out more about our CPD-accredited Trauma-informed training.

  • Childhood Trauma & Trauma-Informed Care

    Childhood Trauma & Trauma-Informed Care

  • Transforming local areas

    Transforming local areas

    Since early 2018, we've been supporting local activists in their aims to transform their towns, cities and counties into trauma-informed communities.

  • Conception to age 2 - the age of opportunity

    Conception to age 2 - the age of opportunity

    WAVE Trust report - a Department for Education invited response to Supporting Families in the Foundation Years - March 2013.

  • What we do for children

    What we do for children

    Tackling the root causes of childhood adversity to create a better future.

  • Our 70/30 campaign priorities

    Our 70/30 campaign priorities

    In order to deliver a 70% reduction in child abuse, neglect and other forms of abuse by 2030 we have nine campaign asks.

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences

    Adverse Childhood Experiences

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The WAVE Centre, 61 Ballards Way, Croydon, Surrey, CR2 7JP
Tel: 020 8688 3773

Windyhill Farm, Windyhill Road, Newmilns, East Ayrshire, KA16 9LR
Tel: 01560 322805 (during Covid, please use 07714 764370 instead)

Registered charity in England & Wales no. 1080189, and Scotland no. SC044168. Co. Reg. no. 386310

Contact us


The WAVE Centre, 61 Ballards Way, Croydon, Surrey, CR2 7JP

Tel: 020 8688 3773

Scotland: Windyhill Farm, Windyhill Road, Newmilns, East Ayrshire KA16 9LR

Tel: 01560 322805 (during Covid, please use 07714 764370 instead)


Email: [email protected]