Jane Court is an accomplished Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA), who demonstrates strong financial expertise, combined with commercial awareness. To bring balance into her life, over several years Jane gained experience and qualifications in a variety of holistic therapies, including Aromatherapy and became a full member of IFPA in 2007. Jane is passionate about the use of complementary therapies in the pursuit of improved wellbeing and lifestyle and enjoys sharing her knowledge and the benefits with others to promote awareness. Jane is also a Trustee and Treasurer of the British Society of Dowsers (BSD).

Russell Morrice MSc,FCIS,IRM Cert is an experienced senior executive with over 20 years’ involvement in professional body management. Russell qualified as a corporate governance professional, specialising in the development and implementation of corporate governance strategies for membership bodies, with particularly reference to chartered corporations. A qualified risk manager, he has over 10 years’ experience of developing and implementing risk management structures within complex organisations. Russell has worked as a company secretary for the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and its commercial subsidiaries, and at director level in strategic development and operations, including business continuity, office relocation, facilities management and human resources, as well as education management, professional standards, and complaints and disciplinary processes.

Christine Courtney has over 40 years’ experience in business and was a company director of a major Irish stationery company for 20 years, with numerous responsibilities in that role including sales management, purchasing and staff welfare. She is currently Managing Director of Obus Limited, and Principal Tutor of Obus School of Healing Therapies. She brings an abundance of skills to her role on the Board including marketing, staff management and forward planning and project management.

Louise Carta has been involved in the aromatherapy industry since 1994, having trained at an IFPA-accredited school and worked as an aromatherapist, before moving on to become a tutor and then an IFPA Principal Tutor and examiner. In 2010 Louise founded The Aromatherapy Company, an IFPA-accredited school strongly committed to the ethos of Excellence in Education. She believes that good educational standards should be maintained by close monitoring and sharing of information with schools and members. Louise has served on the IFPA Board previously and has had the pleasure of working with equally passionate Trustees. She holds the firm belief that the growth of IFPA membership, as well as the support of its members, needs to be of the same focus and standard both nationally and internationally – and that through mutual support we can grow and learn from each other for the benefit of clinical aromatherapy worldwide.

Tomoyo qualified as a clinical aromatherapist in 2012 and has been providing her services as a complementary therapist for more than 20 years spending nearly seven years of her life in London. In London, she worked with clinics, studied, provided aromatherapy and other complementary therapies, whilst also certifying as a Temprana Reflex therapist (a therapy especially for children with brain disorders), among other modalities. Tomoyo has garnered extensive tuition from experts in the field and has experience in many countries including the UK, Spain, Denmark, and Japan. She is also an overseas ambassador for the Story Massage Programme in the UK. Tomoyo now works in Japan giving aromatherapy and complementary treatments at luxury hotels, provides mobile visits to clients and children with special needs and spends a lot of her time doing what she is most passionate about, namely working at a hospital for children with severe mental and physical disabilities. Tomoyo has also been running workshops in aromatherapy and various Japanese complementary systems for many years and is also a keen volunteer and organiser of activities and charity workshops for victims of the Tsunami at the Great East Japan Earthquake. She draws from her extensive experience in creating balance and healing through natural systems and has dedicated her life to supporting families with her complementary therapies specialisation.

Raquel originally graduated in Economics but fell in love with aromatherapy and integrative medicine 25 years ago. She has completed several courses in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), aromatherapy, and manual massage techniques. In 2012 she entered the University of Medicine of Porto – ICBAS, where she specialised in TCM and published several scientific articles. Raquel went on to complete several university post-graduate courses in the areas of aromatherapy, TCM, and Ozone, and now, she practices integrative medicine in her clinic in Portugal. Raquel founded her own school in 2009, which is accredited by IFPA. She is the founder and president of APA – Associação Portuguesa de Aromaterapia and mentor of the Hospital do Sorriso volunteer project. “Aromatherapy is my life”.

Charlotte is the happy mother of a 30-year-old son and lives by herself in a small village in Denmark. She took early retirement due to a lifelong disability. Despite her disability, Charlotte lives a happy and inspiring life. Before she retired, she was a teacher in a public school. Charlotte is now a dedicated aromatherapy student, currently studying as a clinical aromatherapist with Essence of Thyme College of Holistic Studies. Charlotte’s goal is to raise awareness and promote the safe and sustainable education and practice of aromatherapy in Denmark. She believes that with her teaching background and life experiences, she can offer a broad range of skills to support the IFPA Board of Trustees.

Yee Nga Wong, based in Hong Kong is a qualified aromatherapists as well as an accountant. Yee Nga hopes that her accounting with compliance knowledge and experience will contribute to IFPA and aromatherapy, and this will be further promoted. Yee Nga has conducted compliance audits on businesses in Hong Kong, Macao, the PRC mainland. Provided the audit service covered listed on Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Market companies which in food and beverage, media and entertainment, financial services and properties management, IPO, private companies which in leatherware production and trading, semiconductor trading and properties management, association, securities funds and school. Yee Nga has knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements, understanding of fiduciary duties, and familiarity with regulatory best practices.

I am a certified aromatherapist, clinical herbalist, and permaculture designer living in the United States on Wholly Rooted Farm, a United Plant Savers botanical sanctuary, where I grow over 250 species of medicinal herbs, aromatic plants, and at-risk plants. I have been in clinical practice as an aromatherapist since 2016 and began volunteering for free clinics with Herbalists Without Borders (HWB) as herbalist and aromatherapist in 2017. I worked with veterans in the Veterans Resiliency Holistic Clinic who had experienced PTSD, providing them with monthly consultations from 2017-2022. I continue to consult in a once a month free clinic, and I provide education to volunteer co-ordinators with HWB on the safe use of aromatherapy tools in free clinics, community outreach, and disaster relief. I run a national donation network for HWB, where I accept donated supplies and make aromatherapy and herbal products for 50 groups, shipping hundreds of inhalers, rollerballs, lotions, salves, sprays, rubs, etc, for use in relief, aid, and outreach every month. I continue to volunteer and serve as part-time ED of HWB. I am also Editor of Without Borders magazine, and regularly contribute articles to printed and digital magazines around the world. I present topics in herbalism, aromatherapy, and community outreach and aid. I have over a decade of experience in non-profits and have served as the Secretary of the American Herbalists Guild, on the Board of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved, on the HWB Board of Directors, and as Vice President of the Lilium Initiative. I have also served on the Ethics Advisory Committee ongoing for the AHG. I attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management and have a Professional Certificate in Non-profit Management. I also attended the Grantsmanship Centre program in Grant Writing. My bachelor’s degree is in Management I continue to take aromatherapy courses to advance my education and support the work I do in free clinics, community outreach, and disaster relief.