New Chief Executive for IndependentAge
Howard Lake | 20 February 2007 | News
The new Chief Executive of IndependentAge, the charity that helps older people to live with independence and dignity in their later years, will be Janet Morrison who takes up her position on 1 March.
Morrison was joins the charity from NESTA, the National Endowment for Science Technology, where she was Deputy Chief Executive.
While at NESTA, she led strategy, policy, research and communications and had management responsibilities for all aspects of the organisation including grant-making, investment, IT, HR and finance. She helped secure £75 million of additional funding for NESTA from the government and lead an organisation-wide change programme.
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Before that she worked as a senior adviser on UK Policy at the BBC between 1997 and 1999, and before that spent seven years at NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations).
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.