Charity achievements recognised in New Year Honours

By Nick Hilborne, Third Sector, 3 January 2008

Former Cancer Research UK chief executive Professor Alex Markham and National Trust director-general Fiona Reynolds led the way for the charity and voluntary sector in the New Year Honours list.

Professor Markham, who headed Cancer Research UK for four years before leaving last April, was awarded a knighthood, as was Professor Bruce Ponder, director of Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Research Institute. The charity’s current chief executive, Harpal Kumar, said Professor Markham had been one of the leading advocates of the...

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