Wade Channell is a member of the Board of Directors of Serve the City International (STCi) and Honorary Treasurer since 2023.  He has been involved with the Serve the City movement since its inception twenty years ago, when Carlton Deal announced the first serve at a meeting of the well in Brussels.  He is part of the International Leadership Team and with them has worked to develop strategies, policies, and procedures of STCi.  He has also supported with the work of STC Paris financially, and worked with Tom Wilscam to conduct a presentation at Colombia University in Paris several years ago.

Wade retired from a career with the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2021, where he worked on improving business regulation, promoting rule of law, and advancing women’s economic empowerment over a 30-year career in more than 50 countries.  Prior to that he was an international commercial lawyer in São Paulo, Brazil and New York City for seven years.  Since retirement, he has served on several NGO boards, including a leadership center for under-privileged women in Honduras (where he has taught business ethics), and has recently completed a first draft of a book on masculinity.

Wade grew up in the United States and has lived in Brazil, Guinea-Bissau, Croatia, and Belgium, and currently splits his time between the Washington, DC region and Lund, Sweden with his wife, Nina.

Grace Perez-Navarro is a global public policy leader with more than 35+ years of experience in tax law, international relations, government and executive leadership. She is an American lawyer with a long and distinguished career in public service in both the United States and internationally. Having spent most of her 26-year career at the OECD as the Deputy Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration in Paris, she was appointed Director of the Centre in November 2022.

Throughout her tenure, Grace has been recognized for her dedication to advancing international cooperation on tax matters and fostering inclusive policy development. Her leadership has contributed to significant reforms in global tax standards, reflecting her commitment to fairness, transparency, and innovation in public policy.

During her tenure at the OECD, she played a key role in the OECD’s ground-breaking work to eliminate bank secrecy, tackle base erosion and profit shifting by multinationals (BEPS), address the tax challenges of digitalization as well as the establishment of the Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches.  She also provided strategic direction to the OECD’s work to improve international tax cooperation, stem illicit financial flows, assess the role of tax policy on gender equality, strengthen tax morale and responsible business conduct in the tax area, design better tax policies and engage developing countries in OECD tax work at both the technical and political levels.

A strong supporter of women’s professional development, Grace helped found the OECD Women’s Network, chaired it from 2022 to 2023, and was the first patron of the Global Forum’s Women Leaders in Tax Transparency Programme.  She currently serves on the President’s Council of Cornell Women.

Mark Deery is an experienced senior HR leader having spent more than 30 years working in global roles in large international organisations in the engineering, technology and manufacturing sectors.

During his career, Mark has carried out a number of HR roles where he has advised business leaders on strategy development, business transformation, organisation culture and talent development with a focus on leadership development. He has also led communications functions in organisations in which he has worked.

Mark grew up in Belfast where he studied for his Bachelor of Science degree and continued his studies in Manchester specialising in Human Resources before embarking on his career journey. In his personal time, Mark is interested in most sports with a passion for athletics, having completed a number of city marathons.

Mark’s participation as a member of the STCP board is his first NGO board membership role and he is excited to get involved and help us in our mission.

Mark currently lives with his family in Paris.