# Tanya Steele is new WWF-UK Chief Executive

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/09/27/tanya-steele-new-wwf-uk-chief-executive/
- Published: 2016-09-27T12:20:43+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Tanya Steele has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of WWF-UK, and will
take up her role at the beginning of 2017.**

The experienced fundraiser is currently Interim UK Chief Executive at Save the Children.
Before that she was Executive Director for Marketing, Fundraising and Communications
at the children’s charity, where she significantly increased levels of income through
fundraising campaigns, partnerships, and new commercial ventures.

Before joining Save the Children, Steele spent over a decade working in product 
development, marketing and communications in the technology sector, holding senior
roles at Siemens and BT.

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She takes over at [WWF-UK](http://wwf.org.uk) from David Nussbaum, who leaves on
30 September to become Chief Executive at the peace and human rights organisation,
The Elders. Glyn Davies, Executive Director of Global Programmes at WWF-UK will 
act as interim CEO until Steele joins.

WWF-UK has over half a million supporters and an annual income exceeding £60m in
the financial year to June 2015. Internationally WWF has over 5 million supporters
and a global network active in over 100 countries.

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