# New Chief Executive for IndependentAge

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/02/20/new-chief-executive-independentage/
- Published: 2007-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The new Chief Executive of IndependentAge, the charity that helps older people to
live with independence and dignity in their later years, will be Janet Morrison 
who takes up her position on 1 March.
Morrison was joins the charity from NESTA,
the National Endowment for Science Technology, where she was Deputy Chief Executive.

While at NESTA, she led strategy, policy, research and communications and had management
responsibilities for all aspects of the organisation including grant-making, investment,
IT, HR and finance. She helped secure £75 million of additional funding for NESTA
from the government and lead an organisation-wide change programme.

Before that she worked as a senior adviser on UK Policy at the BBC between 1997 
and 1999, and before that spent seven years at NCVO (National Council for Voluntary
Organisations).

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