Judges

The Charity Awards judging panel is a real Who’s Who of civil society’s most respected leaders – 12 individuals who have devoted enormous amounts of energy and dedication to the sector themselves and are uniquely qualified to spot effective innovation and excellence in charity leadership and management.

Judges

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2012 Judges

Andrew Hind CB (chair)

Andrew Hind CB is editor of Charity Finance magazine and has been a leading figure in civil society for 25 years. He was the first chief executive of the Charity Commission...

Dr John Low CBE

Dr John Low is the Charities Aid Foundation’s chief executive. He was chief executive of RNID from 2002 to 2007 and led the development of government-funded low-cost...

Dame Mary Marsh

Dame Mary Marsh is the first director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme, which seeks to help aspiring leaders in the third sector by providing training. She was chief...

Mark Goldring

Mark Goldring joined Mencap as chief executive in November 2008. He started his career as a VSO volunteer teacher in Borneo in 1979, and was that organisation’s chief...

Sir Christopher Kelly KCB

Sir Christopher Kelly was appointed as chair of the King's Fund in August 2010, starting in October of that year. Prior to this appointment he joined the board of the NSPCC...

Fiona Ellis

Fiona Ellis was until March 2009 the director of the Northern Rock Foundation, and before that she worked for other grantmakers including the Baring Foundation and the Esmee...

Dorothy Dalton

Dorothy Dalton is editor of Governance magazine and a governance expert. She was the first chief executive of Acevo, holding the position from 1992 to 2000. She also...

Anne-Marie Piper

Anne-Marie Piper is head of the charities group at Farrer & Co law firm, and specialises in charity law. She acts for sponsors of new charities, directors, trustees...

Lesley-Anne Alexander

Lesley-Anne Alexander was appointed chief executive at RNIB in January 2004. Before joining RNIB she was director of operations for the Peabody Trust and prior to this...

Bob Reitemeier

Bob Reitemeier was chief executive at the Children’s Society from 2002 until 2011 after having initially joined as operations director in 1998. Bob commissioned The...

Colin Nee

Colin Nee is currently interim executive director of Marr-Manning Trust, which is an independent grant-making trust. Since 1996, he has been chief executive of three award-winning...

Su Sayer OBE

Su Sayer is the chief executive at United Response, which helps sufferers of learning disabilities and mental health problems, with 2000 staff and 250 residential units...