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In 2020, Bucher was appointed Executive Director of Oxfam International. She was the first Colombian to lead the organization. [ 1 ] Under her leadership, Oxfam advocated for reducing wealth inequality global, increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and ensuring an equitable global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic .
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 ...
Byanyima began her five-year directorship at Oxfam on 1 May 2013. [9] In December 2017, she announced acceptance of an offer from Oxfam's Board of Supervisors to serve a second five-year term as Oxfam International's Executive Director. [10] In January 2015, Byanyima co-chaired the World Economic Forum in Davos. She used the forum to press for ...
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]
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.
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.
He worked for Oxfam from 1992 to 2002, for which he was awarded an OBE. From 2003 to 2016, he was executive director of the New Economics Foundation . Currently, Wallis is the chair for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), which is an initiative to create a global new economy movement.
Rowntree's first post-war job was as a journalist at the Northern Echo in Darlington. He moved to Oxford in 1950 to become assistant general manager at the Oxford Mail and the Oxford Times where he was promoted one year later to general manager. During his tenure he increased circulation and guided the newspapers through one of their most ...