Compact Commission appoints Massie

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector, 19 March 2008

The former chair of the Disability Rights Commission will today be announced as the new Commissioner for the Compact. Sir Bert Massie, who was also chief executive of disability charity Radar, has been appointed for three years.

He will take over the position on 1 April from interim commissioner Helen Baker. She was appointed after the first commissioner, John Stoker, resigned unexpectedly for personal reasons after less than a year in the job ( Third Sector Online, 7 September 2007 ). In Massie's first interview about his...

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