Julia Unwin announced as new Joseph Rowntree Foundation Director
Julia Unwin CBE is to be the new Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust from 1 January 2007. She succeeds Lord
Best, who is retiring at the end of 2006 after 18 years in the post.
Currently an independent consultant operating within government and the voluntary and corporate sectors, Julia Unwin is also Deputy Chair of the Food Standards Agency. A member of the Housing Corporation Board for 10 years and a Charity Commissioner from 1998 until 2003, she was also Chair of the Refugee Council from 1995 until 1998.
Julia Unwin has long experience as an advocate for the users of housing, health and social care services, and recently chaired the King’s Fund Inquiry into the operation of the care market for older people. As a researcher, author and consultant she has focused on the development of services, and in particular the governance and funding of voluntary organisations. She has researched and published on funding issues.
Announcing the appointment today, the Chair of Trustees, Sir William Utting CB, said:
"The Trustees are delighted to be able to appoint Julia Unwin as our new Director. She has had a distinguished career in public service, and is well placed to continue the highly successful work of the Foundation and the Housing Trust. Richard Best has been an outstanding Director, and his long service and distinguished achievements deserve to be carried forward by such a high calibre successor."
