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Chief executive
Tamsyn Barton has been appointed as the new chief executive of international development organisation Bond.
Barton joins Bond from the Department for International Development, where she has worked for the last 13 years. Barton began at DFID as a social development adviser and went on to be the head of the EU Department.
In a varied career, Barton has also held roles at Practical Action and worked for the European Investment Bank, where she was director-general. Barton also held a doctoral fellowship at Cambridge.
John Wilkes has announced that he will be leaving the Scottish Refugee Council to head up the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Scotland.
Wilkes has been chief executive of SRC since March 2008 and will be leaving in March of this year to take up his new role.
He has had a long career in the Scottish voluntary sector, having previously been a member of the Communities Fund (now Big Lottery) Scotland committee and a trustee of Stonewall. He has also served on the boards of the British Refugee Council, the Equality Network, the Sheila McKechnie Foundation and until April 2015 Citizens Advice Scotland.
Non executive
Clic Sargent has announced the appointment of Rachel Hollis and Harry Howard as the two new trustees who will join its board.
Hollis is the lead nurse for Children’s Cancer and Matron for Haematology and Oncology at the Leeds Children’s Hospital. She has worked in paediatric oncology and haematology for almost 30 years.
Howard meanwhile is a cancer survivor, having been diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 22. He became a part of Clic Sargent’s Children and Young People’s Advisory Group and later its Young Person’s Reference Group.
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