Barbara Stocking
Dame Barbara Stocking New Hall, Cambridge | |
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Occupation | College president |
Known for | Former chief executive of Oxfam, Britain |
Dame Barbara Mary Stocking,
Early life and education
Stocking was born in
Health care systems
On graduating from Cambridge, Stocking briefly contemplated a career in science
After starting work in 1979 for the World Health Organization in West Africa, Stocking, in 1987, was appointed director of the King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development.
NHS
In the 1990s, she was posted in the
In 2000, she was appointed a
In late 2000, Stocking applied for the NHS top position.[7] In October 2000,
Oxfam
In May 2001, Stocking was appointed Oxfam's chief executive[9] on a £75,000-a-year contract.[8]
Direction
Stocking, during her tenure, built Oxfam's relationships with major, international, private corporations such as
In a 2010 interview, she stated: "Times have changed, and Oxfam is moving with the times. It took a while for many in the organisation to understand what is happening but since the late 1990s we have seen quite different relationships develop with private business."[10]
In 2011, Oxfam launched a campaign for "
During Stocking's tenure there, Oxfam faced many humanitarian crises, such as those caused by the conflicts in
Allegations of Oxfam staff misconduct in Haiti
In February 2018, an investigation by the
Among the staff who were permitted by Oxfam's leadership to resign without further actions taken against them was the charity's country director, Roland van Hauwermeiren. According to Oxfam's internal report, van Hauwermeiren admitted using prostitutes at a villa whose rent was paid with Oxfam funds meant for charity. Stocking, Oxfam's CEO at the time, offered Hauwermeiren “a phased and dignified exit” invoking her concern that sacking him risked “potentially serious implications for the charity’s work and reputation."[13]
When the allegations became public in 2018, Stocking stated that her biggest work mistake had been “Not getting rid of people soon enough."
Following the resignation of Penny Lawrence, Oxfam's deputy chief executive, Robert Halfon, Conservative MP and Chairman of the Education Select Committee, accused Stocking of trying to “escape responsibility for the Haiti prostitution scandal." Halfon criticized the former Oxfam head who, he stated, had behaved “outrageously” in allowing senior aid workers to "resign quietly from the charity."[17]
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
In 2010, Stocking's
In October 2017, Stocking announced that Murray Edwards would be changing its admissions policy to allow it to accept transgender students who identify as female. Stocking stated that the college is "open to all outstanding young women" and "so it is absolutely right, both legally and within [the college's] set of values, for anyone who identifies as female to be able to apply to study [in it]."[19]
Awards and appointments
In 2008, Barbara Stocking was promoted Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).[20]
In March 2015, Stocking was appointed Chair of an Independent Panel to assess the
Personal life
Stocking is married to Dr John MacInnes, who is a prison doctor.[10] They have two sons, Andrew and Stephen.[19]
References
- ^ a b "Barbara Stocking". The Guardian. November 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b c Pithers, Ellie (23 May 2014). "The world of Dame Barbara Stocking, former Oxfam CEO". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ Old Girls Society, Rugby High School for Girls website
- The Financial Times.
- ^ a b "Seven NHS regional directors appointed", The BMJ Clinical Research, 308(6932):860 · March 1994, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.308.6932.860; archived at Research Gate
- ^ Ricketts, Andy. "Oxfam chief executive Dame Barbara Stocking to step down in February", Third Sector, 4 September 2012
- ^ "Charity scoop: NHS loses top woman to Oxfam" by Patrick Butler, The Guardian, 20 December 2000
- ^ a b "Top woman manager quits NHS" by Patrick Butler, The Guardian, 15 December 2000
- ^ "Dame Barbara Stocking steps down from Oxfam role". BBC News. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b c d "'Since I was 18, I have wanted to save the world' " by Margareta Pagano, The Independent, 8 November 2010
- ^ Barbara Stocking, CEO, Oxfam, Warwick Economics Summit, February 2018
- ^ a b O’Neill, Sean (9 February 2018). "Oxfam in Haiti: It was like a Caligula orgy with prostitutes in Oxfam T-shirts". The Times.
- ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Oxfam sex scandal: boss was ‘let off the hook for sake of Haiti mission’" by Billy Kenber, The Times, 10 February 2018
- ^ "Murray Edwards defends president Barbara Stocking over Oxfam cover-up allegations". Varsity Online. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
- ^ Lodhia, Devarshi (12 February 2018). "Stocking cancels Union visit in wake of senior Oxfam resignation". Varsity Online. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
- ^ "Oxfam sex scandal: Former chief executive ‘is ducking responsibility'" by Nicola Woolcock, The Times, 15 February 2018
- ^ a b "Dame Barbara Stocking DBE elected as fifth President". Murray Edwards College. 18 March 2013. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
- ^ a b Weaver, Matthew (4 October 2017). "Women-only Cambridge college to allow students who 'identify as female'". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Voluntary sector represented in Queen's Birthday Honours" by Emma Maier, Third Sector, 16 June 2008
- ^ "Dame Barbara Stocking". Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Dame Barbara Stocking named Chair of Trustees" by Bex Dawkes, A Blueprint for Better Business website, 6 July 2016
External links
- Media related to Barbara Stocking at Wikimedia Commons
- Stocking's evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee report on Sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector, 2018