Liberty, Impetus – PEF, The International Glaucoma Association and more announce their latest appointments.

Chief executive

Human rights campaigning organisation Liberty has appointed Martha Spurrier as director. Prior to her appointment, Spurrier worked as a lawyer at mental health charity Mind and the Public Law Project.

Spurrier will lead Liberty’s campaigning, legal and policy team and replaces Shami Chakrabarti as director. She will take up her role on 31 May 2016.

Impetus-PEF, the venture philanthropy organisation, has appointed Andy Ratcliffe as chief executive.

Ratcliffe takes up his new role with the organisation officially today. Prior to joining Impetus – PEF, he was deputy chief executive of the Africa Governance Initiative. He was also a senior policy adviser for education in then Prime Minister Tony Blair’s strategy unit.

He replaces Julia Grant, who had been acting chief executive of the organisation since 2015.

The International Glaucoma Association has appointed Karen Osborn as chief executive. She will take up her new role at the end of July 2016.

Prior to joining the charity, Osborn spent nine years as chief executive of the Kent Association for the Blind.

Finance and Operations

 

Non executive

Dominic Will has been appointed to the Institute of Fundraising’s board of trustees as a co-opted member.
Will is the joint managing director of Home Fundraising and has been appointed to the board ahead of the proposed merger of the IoF and the PFRA.

Sir Michael Parkinson has been announced as patron of Yorkshire Cancer Research.

The broadcaster has agreed to support the regional, Yorkshire charity after his own, two-year battle with prostate cancer. He was given the all clear from the disease in 2015.