# JustGiving CEO Zarine Kharas recognised with Queen’s birthday honour

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/06/12/justgiving-ceo-zarine-kharas-recognised-with-queens-birthday-honour/
- Published: 2015-06-12T22:30:49+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

JustGiving co-founder and chief executive Zarine Kharas has been recognised in the
Queen’s birthday honours list for her contribution to business and charity in the
United Kingdom.

She has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services
to business and charity.

She co-founded the online giving platform in 2001 with Anne-Marie Huby with the 
aim of making charitable giving easier and more effective through the power of digital
technology.

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Since 2001 the site has been used to raise and donate over £2 billion for good causes.

On hearing of the award, Zarine Kharas, said:

> “In 2001, Anne-Marie and I set out to build a sustainable business that was mission
> led and had social values at its core. [JustGiving](http://www.justgiving.com)
> has been investing and innovating on behalf of good causes ever since and we’re
> both enormously proud of its achievements in connecting people to the causes they
> care about. None of it would have been possible without the trust of our charity
> partners, the 24 million people who have given through JustGiving over the years
> and the hard work of our 170-strong team.”

Richard Taylor, executive director of fundraising and marketing at Cancer Research
UK, thanked Kharas for all she had helped his and charity and others to achieve.
He said:

> “JustGiving was a pioneer of online fundraising that transformed the way people
> give to charitable causes in this country and has raised a huge amount of money
> for important causes, including ours. Thanks to Zarine and Anne-Marie’s vision
> and leadership and continued investment in world-class technology, charities of
> all sizes can simply use JustGiving and keep their focus on raising more money,
> and the entire sector is stronger for it.”

In 2009 [Zarine Kharas was awarded the RSA’s Albert Medal](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2009/04/09/justgiving-ceo-zarine-kharas-awarded-rsas-albert-medal-democratising-fundraising/)
for “democratising fundraising and technology for charities.” Previous recipients
have included Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Stephen Hawking.

A Cambridge University graduate in law, she worked for City solicitors Lawrence 
Graham and Linklaters & Paines, where she specialised in corporate and financial
law; and then Credit Suisse First Boston; MC Securities and Simmons & Simmons.

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