Senior Leadership Team

Chief Executive: Craig Jones

Craig joined the Royal Osteoporosis Society from the Advertising Standards Authority, where he was Director of Communications.

Craig has held leadership roles in membership and regulatory bodies over the last decade. He sat on the Board of the Royal College of Anaesthetists for two terms. He also served as a Lay Member of the National Organ Donation Committee at NHS Blood and Transplant.

Craig practised as a government lawyer in the Home Office and, in 2006, he applied his experience of advocacy to leading a children’s charity’s successful campaign for new investment in socially excluded young people. Following that outcome, he was invited by a Cabinet Minister to oversee stakeholder engagement for the Equality Act.

Director of Corporate Services: Thom Harvey

Thom is a Chartered Accountant who has worked closely with technology throughout his career.

His role is to lead the charity’s capability across Finance and IT, by maintaining strong financial control, supporting financial planning and decision making and ensuring that the technology is in place to support our strategy.

Thom joined the Royal Osteoporosis Society in 2021 from the National Childbirth Trust where he held the role of Executive Director of Organisational Services.

Thom started his professional career auditing a variety of not-for-profit organisations which has provided a strong foundation to his time in the sector, where in addition to supporting the development of financial strategy, he has successfully overseen several digital modernisation and large-scale development projects.

Director of Services, Influencing and Innovation: Ruth Wakeman

Ruth began her career as a pharmacist, working for a range of not for profit health organisations during her career including the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Crohn’s & Colitis UK where she was Director of Services, Advocacy and Evidence.

Ruth joined the Royal Osteoporosis Society in 2024 to lead our teams delivering health information and support, policy and public affairs and our work with healthcare professionals and health services including our support for research.

Interim Director of Income and Engagement: Leesa Harwood

Leesa has over 30 years’ experience in the charity sector, from fundraiser to executive director and trustee.

She began her career in the USA at the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, then the American Cancer Society. After returning to the UK, she worked in various fundraising and engagement roles at Business in the Community and Save the Children. Most recently she was Director of Lifesaving and Fundraising at the RNLI, and CEO at Jeans for Genes.

Leesa has also been a Trustee at the Royal Osteoporosis Society and The Big Issue Foundation as well as a Non-executive Director at the NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board.

Since 2018 Leesa has run her own Charity Consultancy and from time to time undertakes interim executive roles.