Our Team

Ian Priestley

Ian is a research chemist for a large multinational agrochemical company and specialises in thermal analysis and calorimetry. He is also the course director for a Master’s degree course at the University of Sheffield.

He has been a Rotarian for 18 years and is currently a member of the Rotary Club of Buxton in District 1220. He served as Governor for District 1050 in 2011/12.

He is the a past chairman REMaRAG (Rotarians Eliminating Malaria a Rotarian Action Group) and in that role represented Rotary International at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit on Malaria in 2018.

Ian is a TRF Cadre member and has also served as an ARRFC, he is currently the EMGA for Region 19.

His interest in malaria stems from his work in the development of new chemicals for vector control.

Gillian Pearce

Brian Stoyel

Born and educated near Plymouth, Brian qualified as a Music teacher at St. Luke’s College, Exeter, before moving to a teaching post in Slough, Berkshire with his wife Maxine, also a teacher and then to Newbury as Headmaster of an Independent school.

Returning to the West Country he set up an Education Consultancy to look after children from overseas studying at boarding schools in the UK, and joined Saltash Rotary Club.

He has served Rotary in many capacities – RI Director 2017-19 for Zones 17 & 18A, President of RIBI 2003-04, Rotary International Trainer for two years, has chaired many RI & RIBI and committees as well as representing RI Presidents at conferences and institutes.  Founder and CEO of the REMIT programme - Rotarians Eliminating Malaria in Tanzania - a result of his many visits to Africa experiencing the indiscriminate harm caused by mosquitoes on young children and pregnant mothers, with devastating effects on family life.

He is a Trustee & Manager of The Rotary Jaipur Limb, which again compliments his work in Africa and Chairman of the RIBI Disaster Recovery Trust.

Judy Smith

Judy is a retired chartered accountant with experience of charity sector work over many years.  She worked as Head of Finance for Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland for a number of years, and was introduced to REMIT during that tenure.  How lucky to continue the connection with REMIT following retirement!

She now acts as the facilitator and admin coordinator for the charity, maintaining the financial and other records, and keeping abreast of the myriad of charitable and legal charitable requirements.

Knowledge of living in eastern Africa with the implications of malaria stem from an early age – stories and first-hand information from a great aunt who emigrated to northern Kenya in 1907 and operated a coffee farm there for over 50 years.  What a challenge this disease is and every effort should be made to aim for its eradication.

Judy also continues to work with two other small charities which both operate in the sector of supporting individuals and families living in very deprived circumstances within the UK. 

Faye Cran

Keith Barnard-Jones

 Keith is the former senior partner of a 7 man/woman general medical practice on the isle of Portland in Dorset.
Keith's interests in medicine lie in the fields of maternal and child health, paediatrics and preventive medicine.
He was a Director of Rotary International from 2001 - 2003, and worked in the Refugee Camp in Hong Kong in 1980 looking after the Vietnamese "Boat People".
For over 30 years he has been involved in involved in the fight to eradicate polio, and for the last 17 years working with REMIT to eliminate malaria in Tanzania, and worldwide