Scottish Government announces new OSCR Board Members

15 February 2010

The Scottish Government has announced the appointment of two new members to OSCR’s Board. The news has been welcomed by OSCR’s Chair and Chief Executive as reinforcing the existing skills and experience of the Board and providing additional perspectives.

Read the Scottish Government announcement here.

The two new members, Kaliani Lyle and Professor David Harrison, were appointed by Ministers in accordance with the code of practice of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland. They will serve for a four year period to 2014.

OSCR’s Chair, John Naylor, said:
‘I very much look forward to working with Kaliani and David as new Board members. Each has differing and wide experience in the charity sector and beyond, which will be relevant to the next phase of OSCR’s development. They were selected from a very strong field.’

OSCR’s Chief Executive, Jane Ryder, said:
‘Having established a robust and comprehensive regulatory framework, the next few years will see important developments. We intend to implement new reporting methods and develop our outreach programme. The two new Members join OSCR at a key phase in our development and I look forward to working with them.’

John Naylor thanked Martin Crewe and Iris McMillan, departing Board members, for their contribution to OSCR. ‘Both have served admirably throughout their term, providing counsel and support during the establishment and early development of Scotland’s charity regulator. We thank them both and wish them well for the future.’

OSCR took up its full powers in April 2006 with the commencement of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005. OSCR is a Non-Ministerial Department and part of the Scottish Administration. Its Board determines its strategic direction and priorities with its operational functions delivered by a Senior Management Team. Further information on OSCR’s governance is available at www.oscr.org.uk

OSCR’s New Board Members

Kaliani Lyle has been Chief Executive of Citizens Advice Scotland since 1998. She practiced as a pharmacist before turning to community education. Formerly CEO of the Scottish Refugee Council, she was recognised as one of the Institute of Contemporary Scotland's Scots of the Year in 2007, when she received the Alastair Hetherington Award for humanitarian service. She was a member of the McFadden Scottish Charity Law Review Commission which led to the eventual establishment of OSCR; and the Sentencing Commission. She is also a member of the Signet Accreditation Board and GMC UK Revalidation Programme.

Professor David Harrison is Head of Pathology at the University of Edinburgh, Clinical Director for Laboratory Medicine across NHS Lothian, Honorary Consultant Pathologist in Lothian University Hospitals Division and the Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit – one of three such units within the charity. He was Director of the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre and is a founding Board member of the MRC / University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine . He is a member of the Committee on Toxicity, Food Standards Agency , and was until recently Vice Chair of the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee. He is chair of the research grant-making charity Medical Research Scotland, and The Nazareth Trust, a Scottish charity that owns and runs a hospital and nursing school in the Middle East.

OSCR’s Existing Board Members

John Naylor OBE, Chair, was most recently Chief Executive of the Carnegie UK Trust for 11 years. Previously, he was Chief Executive of YMCA England, where he was joint founder of Y Care International. John Naylor was on the Board of the UK Big Lottery Fund and chaired the Scottish Community Fund. He was founding Convenor of the Scottish Grant Making Trusts Group, and a member of the McFadden Scottish Charity Law Review Commission which led to the establishment of OSCR. He is Chair of the UK Scout Association Development Grants Board and a member of the UK Scout Council. He is a member trustee of Medical Research Scotland, Vice Chair of Strange Town, an Edinburgh youth theatre group, and Treasurer of the Tomorrow Project, an independent charity researching people’s lives in the next 20 years. He is also a Kirk Elder in Edinburgh. All of these positions are voluntary.

Lindsay Montgomery, Deputy Chair is the Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board and was previously the Director of Scottish Natural Heritage. He was a previous Non-Executive Director of OSCR when it was a Scottish Executive Agency and he is also the chairman of a small cancer charity.

Fiona Ballantyne is Managing Director of Ballantyne Mackay Consultants and a Director of 4-consulting Ltd. She has served as Vice-Chair on the BBC Broadcasting Council for Scotland, Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Queen Margaret University, and the board of Edinburgh Healthcare Trust. She is a director of Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop Ltd, Chair of the Board of Museums Galleries Scotland (formerly the Scottish Museums Council) and was also Chair of the Edinburgh Branch of the Institute of Directors and a member of the IOD Scotland Committee. She is also a member of OFCOM's Consumer Panel.

Annie Gunner Logan is Director of Community Care Providers Scotland and a Board member of Phoenix House and the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with a Disability (EASPPD).

David Hughes Hallett is a Chartered Surveyor and Consultant, principally working in rural land, heritage and the voluntary sector. He has acted as an adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the last seven years, been Chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland and Convenor of the Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations. He has previously been a Board member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and is currently a member of the North East Panel of Waterwatch Scotland, a Local Adviser for Scottish Natural Heritage (Forth and Borders Area) and a Director of Fife Environment Trust. He is also Deputy Convener of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority.

Oscar Mendoza is a Social Scientist with post graduate qualifications in Social Research Methods who works as Assistant Director of Operations for the Big Lottery Fund. Previously he managed the overseas projects section of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF), and has been a Board member of VETAID UK and Management Committee member of the Scottish Churches World Exchange. He has worked extensively with charities focused on human rights in Chile and Central America, acting as General Council member for the Chile Committee for Human Rights and treasurer for Central America Network Scotland and Chile Democratico (Scotland).

ENDS

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