News In Focus
15 February 2010
OSCR board members appointed
Two new members have been appointed to the board of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), Kaliani Lyle and David Harrison.
Kaliani Lyle has been chief executive of Citizens Advice Scotland since 1998. She also has experience in community education, is a former CEO of the Scottish Refugee Council, and 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.
David Harrison is Head of Pathology at the University of Edinburgh, holds clinical posts in NHS Lothian, and among other appointments is director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit, and 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.
Ministers have also reappointed John Naylor as chair, Lindsay Montgomery as deputy chair and Annie Gunner Logan as a board member.