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21 Dec 2009 15:01:20
A University of Bedfordshire professor has been selected to become an ambassador to promote diversity in public appointments at Board level.
Professor Gurch Randhawa, now a Public Appointments Ambassador for the Government Equalities Office, said: "The Government Equalities Office is an organisation I admire. It will be a huge privilege to contribute to its work.”
The appointment is in recognition of Professor Randhawa’s extensive track record of holding senior Board level public appointments since 1998 in local and national public organisations.
Gurch was appointed as the youngest ever non-executive director of an NHS Trust at the age of 26. Subsequently, in 2001, he was appointed as the youngest ever Chairman of an NHS Trust, Luton teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT), at the age of 29.
He was the first individual to be appointed to two concurrent ministerial appointments, having also been appointed as the youngest ever non-executive director to a National NHS Special Health Authority at UK Transplant.
His pre-existing public appointments include Chairman of NHS Luton, a member of the UK Donation Ethics Committee and Panel Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission.
Professor Randhawa added: “I hope my skills and experience in the area of diversity will be of benefit to the Government Equalities Office and its work.”
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