Sir Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive, NCVO

The future of civil society

Thursday 9 February 2012, 6.30PM

Speaker: Sir Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive, National Council for Voluntary Organisations

Experts in Industry 

This lecture is rescheduled from November 2011.  

Sir Stuart Etherington has been chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) since 1994. He was knighted in the 2010 Queen's Birthday honours. During his time, NCVO has undergone a substantial rise in public profile and has seen its membership rise eight-fold to 8,278 organisations. Sir Stuart has a BSc in Politics, two MAs - one in social service planning and the other in international relations and diplomacy - and an MBA from London Business School.

Throughout his career he has been involved in the leadership of voluntary organisations and policies surrounding them. As such he has become a leading commentator, both through his writing and his media profile. Stuart is Pro-Chancellor of Greenwich University, a Council Member of the Institute of Employment Studies, an Advisory Group member for the Policy Centre at the British Academy and for the Lord Mayor’s Trust Initiative and a member of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union.  His Government appointments have included the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. He has also served on the Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit’s Advisory Board on the Voluntary Sector and HM Treasury’s Cross Cutting Review on the role of the Voluntary Sector.

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Admission: is by free ticket only, available from www.york.ac.uk/tickets.

Location: Ron Cooke Hub Auditorium

Telephone: 01904 324466