Advisor | Be Team International

Now retired, Eric is currently working with his Church in Stirling, Scotland, where he and his family resettled, having kept a home in Bristol, England, for 20 years.

In Eric’s early career, he was an aero-engineer in the British Royal Navy, serving in various geopolitical conflicts. Leaving the Armed Services, he pursued a career with British Aerospace, Airbus Division that lasted 15 years before he resigned to join MEDAIR, a Swiss-based Christian humanitarian organization. He and his wife, Jacqui, left the U.K. in 2003 upon his appointment as the Country Director for MEDAIR in Kabul, Afghanistan, while Jacqui became the Medical Project leader in Badakhshan. In Afghanistan, Eric was elected as Chairman of the Afghanistan Country Coordinating Mechanism for “The Global Fund” with a vision to eliminate HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis. In 2006, Eric became a Cure Associate Executive Consultant at the Rabi Balkhi Hospital in Kabul. At the end of the project in 2007, he moved to Cure Hospital in Kabul as the CEO till August of 2008, when he left Afghanistan. Eric spent a year at CURE OASIS Hospital in Al Ain UAE in 2009 as its Executive V.P. and COO. A short-term mission followed with TEARFUND as the interim Programme Director in the Democrat Republic of Congo.