Rodney Buse

Chairman (designate), Guide Dogs from 2012

Rodney Buse is to become chairman of Guide Dogs in 2012 when current chair Tony Aston steps down. Buse is also a governance consultant and until March 2011 was chair of the Charity Trustees Network before it merged with the Small Charities Coalition.

He has been vice-chair of NCVO and chairman of the National Advisory Council for Careers and Educational Guidance. He chaired the Commission into the Future of Self-Regulation of Charity Fundraising, and the Buse Report that emerged from that Commission paved the way for the establishment of the Fundraising Standards Board.

Buse has previously been a chair of ActionAid and Childhope and a trustee of CAF. He was also a Charity Awards judge for several years.

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