# Leeds appoints director of development

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/10/17/leeds-appoints-director-development/
- Published: 2005-10-17T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Michelle Calvert has joined the University of Leeds as director of development to
lead a major initiative for alumni relations and fundraising.
Michelle will join
Leeds in January 2006 from the University of Aberdeen where she is director of development
and alumni relations.

The Universityof Leeds is committing £3 million to development over the next three
years. This will be used to support a permanent team of fundraising and alumni relations
staff who will work with colleagues across the University to implement the strategy
and run major campaigns.

Michelle said: “It’s a perfect time to arrive. There is commitment from the top 
and buy-in from academics for fundraising.”

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Michelle joined Aberdeen in 2002 to lead development and drove the second phase 
of a £150 million fundraising campaign. She headed a team of 20 covering major gifts,
legacies, the annual fund, foundations and proposals, alumni relations, databases,
stewardship and administration.

She previously worked in development at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, Linacre College,
Oxford, and Clare College, Cambridge.

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