NRI Chitra Bharucha appointed vice chair of BBC Trust

NRI Chitra Bharucha appointed vice chair of BBC Trust
Times of India
Friday, October 13, 2006

Leading NRI haematologist Chitra Bharucha has been appointed as
Vice Chair of BBC Trust, which replaces the news organisation’s
Board of Governors on January 1, 2007.

Michael Grade, current chairman of BBC, will be the chairman of
the Trust, according to an official announcement on Thursday.

Bharucha chairs Fitness to Practise Adjudication Panels of the
General Medical Council (GMC). She also chairs the advisory Committee
on Animal Feeding stuffs for the Food Standards Agency and was appointed
lay member of the Review Body for Judicial Complaints when it was
created in 2006.

As a Consultant haematologist, Bharucha lived and worked until
recently in Lisburn, Northern Ireland and resigned from the National
Health Service in 2000, after serving for almost 20 years as Deputy
Director of the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service and Consultant
Clinical Haematologist at Belfast City Hospital.

The leading haematologist was a member of the GMC between 1999
and 2003 and continues to serve as its associate member.

Bharucha was a board member of the Independent Television Commission
until it became part of Ofcom in December 2003.

She has also held professional appointments on a wide range of
national and international panels, councils and committees, mainly
relating to medicine and the media.

Bharucha was appointed Chairperson of the Food Standard Agency’s
Advisory Committee on Animal Feeding stuffs in April 2002.

The creation of the BBC Trust was announced in the last BBC Annual
Report (2005-2006).

Source: http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-world.asp?parentid=55262

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