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Chitra Bharucha is the Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust.
Achievements
After a career in Medicine as Deputy Director, Northern
Ireland Blood Transfusion Service, and Consultant
Clinical Hematologist, Belfast City Hospital, Dr Chitra
Bharucha chairs Fitness to Practice Adjudication Panels
of the General Medical Council, having served as a
Council member from 1999 to 2003.
She was the Northern Ireland Member of Independent
Television Commission (ITC) from April 2001 until ITC
was subsumed into Ofcom in December 2003 and she served
on the BBC Broadcasting Council for Northern Ireland
from 1996 to 1999.
She was appointed to the Advertising Standards Authority
(Broadcast) Council in 2004, chairs the Advisory
Committee on Animal Feeding stuffs for the Food
Standards Agency and was appointed Lay Member of Review
Body for Judicial Complaints when it was created in
2006.
“Organisations in receipt of public money tasked with
providing a quality service are rightly subjected to
intense scrutiny. My experience is that this is best
achieved when based on evidence and consultation with
those receiving and using the service. Transparency is
another pre-requisite in order to ensure confidence in
the system. I am looking forward to making my
contribution to the work of the Trust.”
Positions of employment
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Review Body for Judicial Complaints - Lay Member,
since 2006
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Advisory Committee on Animal Feeding stuffs, Food
Standards Agency - Chair
Voluntary positions
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Trustee since November 2007
After Indira Nooyi another woman of Indian background
has done the nation proud. In a rare distinction, Dr
Chitra Bharucha, an India-born hematologist, has been
appointed the acting chairperson of the British
Broadcasting
Corporation
(BBC), becoming the first woman and first Asian to head
the giant organization.
Chitra shifted from a career in medicine to media in
1996 when she joined the BBC
Broadcasting
Council for Northern Ireland, a position she stayed in
till 2003.
The post of the chairperson of
BBC
fell vacant following the resignation of Michael Grade
after he decided to join the rival organisation, ITV.
In 2004, Chitra was appointed to the Advertising
Standards Authority (Broadcast) Council, where she
currently chairs the advisory committee on animal
feeding stuffs for the Food Standards Agency.
Chitra is described by those who've worked with her in
the past as a "capable pair of hands". Just weeks ago,
she was named vice-chairperson of the newly-formed BBC
Trust, a brand new body set up to take over and extend
the traditional function of the corporation's governors.
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