# New Deputy Chair for CFDG

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/07/12/new-deputy-chair-cfdg/
- Published: 2007-07-12T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Melvin Coleman, U.K. Finance Director at Amnesty International, has been appointed
as Deputy Chair designate at the Charity Finance Directors’ Group (CFDG), umbrella
group that specialises in helping charities to manage their finance-related functions.**

Coleman will take over as Deputy Chair of CFDG in September for a two-year term 
as Steve Mahon steps down as Deputy Chair when he retires from the Board having 
served his maximum term as a Trustee.

Coleman has been a CFDG trustee for four years and in that time his work on the 
CFDG Board has been focused on working with the Chair and CEO on governance issues.
He has over 35 years of experience of the sector: he was a founder member of the
first publicly-funded law centre in the UK and more recently in senior roles at 
Consumers Association, Engineering Industry Training Board and the Performing Right
Society.

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