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Early in her career Begum worked for Action Aid. [14] In 2012 she was appointed Director for Education at the British Council, responsible for shaping education strategies across East Asia. [15] [16] In 2017 she was recruited to the role of Vice President of the LEGO Foundation and in 2020 was appointed Chief Executive of the Runnymede Trust.
Plaque commemorating first meeting of Oxfam in the Old Library, the University Church, Oxford Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics in 1942 and registered in accordance with UK law in 1943, the original committee was a group of concerned citizens, including Henry Gillett (a prominent local ...
Caroline Agnes Morgan Thomson, Lady Liddle (born 15 May 1954) [1] was chair of the charity Oxfam [2] until October 2020. She is a former BBC executive and was the Corporation's chief operating officer, from 2006 to 2012 [3] and she stood in for Mark Thompson, the former director general, when necessary.
Mark Ian Goldring CBE (born 8 March 1957) [1] was chief executive officer of the charity Oxfam GB, Oxfam's British affiliate. He was appointed in May 2013 [2] and resigned in 2018. Since 2020 he has been Director of Oxford-based charity Asylum Welcome. [3] [4]
Previous jobs include Head of Research at Oxfam GB, Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and Development at the Department for International Development (DFID). He was responsible for looking at trade in goods. His post at DFID was originally a secondment from CAFOD. At CAFOD he had been their trade and globalization Policy Analyst.
Until December 2023, he was Chief Executive of Oxfam GB. [3] Prior to that, Sriskandarajah was the Secretary General of CIVICUS , a global alliance of civil society organisations. [ 4 ] He was the first non-British and youngest person to head the Royal Commonwealth Society , a large non-governmental organisation (NGO) devoted to Commonwealth ...
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An Oxfam charity shop in Covent Garden, London.Mitty established the first Oxfam charity shop in Oxford. Joseph Sidney Mitty MBE (7 May 1919 – 30 September 2007) was a British salesman and the man who turned the first Oxfam gift shop into a national retail network of shops selling second hand clothing and other goods.