Beatrice Karol Burks

Bea is currently Director of Delivery at the Tinder Foundation, a leading charity which support digitally and socially excluded people improve their lives through digital.

Bea was previously Head of Advice, Information and News at Citizens Advice where she worked to ensure people get the right information at the right time from one of Britain’s largest voluntary organisations. Before joining Citizens Advice she managed communications for the think tank Demos where she edited several books on a range of political issues. Bea was also on the secretariat for Lord Falconer’s Commission on Assisted Dying and was a news reporter in South America.

From tricky communications messages to marathons in Africa or swimming down long, long rivers – Bea relishes a challenge and is currently a student herself at the Said Business School in Oxford where she’s looking at what charities can learn from the private sector.