Andy Caldwell [UK]

Job title
Somewhere between Business Development, Facilitator and Community Action Learning Specialist

Last book you read
The Book Thief – good book but still not  patch on The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon

Your heroes include?
Kahlil Gibran, Richard Hawley, Lance Armstrong – for his comeback from cancer

Favourite line from a film?
When talking to Frodo who is wishing the Ring had never come to him; “So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” Gandalf

Your best day at Impact (so far...)?
Doing a Learning in the Community Programme for Oasis India’s Senior Management Team in Mumbai!

Who makes you laugh?
More than anyone else in the world it has to be Spunky [Simon Wheatley], if we’re talking proper comedians then Bill Bailey is very amusing

Last journey you took?
To the Romanian countryside with Leo from Save the Children.  And his wife, daughter, sister-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law.  It was an amazing experience!

What’s on your desk?
Not much!

How do you deal with stress?
Train hard!  And am trying to learn the piano which is cool – and I also write a lot which is a pretty good outlet.

Proudest moment at work?
Doing the intro for around 200 people on Global Poverty for the recent programme we ran for KPMG in Vietnam.

Favourite place?
Mmm, anywhere underwater on an amazing coral reef.  Maybe Sipadan in Borneo, or Coron in Philippines

3 people you’d have dinner with (dead or alive)?
Sir Matt Busby, Field Marshal Montgomery and Jesus (why not?!)
That could be a fairly diverse evening of conversation hey?!