# New Chairman at British Red Cross

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/07/04/new-chairman-british-red-cross/
- Published: 2006-07-04T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Emergency response organisation, the British Red Cross, has appointed James Cochrane
as its new Chairman of the board of trustees.
Cochrane is a trustee of the youth
development charity Raleigh International and a board member of the Medicines for
Malaria Venture and of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

 

 

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His career in the pharmaceutical industry has included working for Shell Chemicals,
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo Wellcome PLC, from which he retired in 2001.

 

 

He takes up his post with the British Red Cross on 1 January 2007.

 

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