{"id":67047,"date":"2016-01-29T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=061f7c79a6b6fa20b3b6fba2f073b8b9"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:27:00","slug":"news-story-appointment-of-christopher-fisher-as-new-chair-of-the-marshall-aid-commemoration-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67047","title":{"rendered":"News story: Appointment of Christopher Fisher as new Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr. Christopher Fisher has been appointed as the new Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission for a three year term beginning on 1 March 2016. The appointment is unpaid. Christopher Fisher currently serves as chairman of Bank of Ireland UK, the financial services partner of the Post Office and the AA; as a non-executive director of SEGRO, the FTSE 200 industrial property company; as chairman of the Council of the University of Reading; and as chairman of the Imperial War Museum Development Trust. His past appointments include working as a managing director at Lazard, the investment bank; as a senior partner at Penfida, the corporate finance adviser to pension scheme trustees; and, for six months, as chairman of Southern Cross Healthcare.  He is a Kennedy Scholar (1976-78) and a graduate of the University of Reading and of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  <\/p>\n<p>The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (MACC) administers the British Marshall Scholarships, which finance young Americans of high ability to study for a graduate degree in the UK. Up to forty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at a UK institution in any field of study.  As future leaders, with a lasting understanding of British society, Marshall Scholars strengthen the enduring relationship between the British and American peoples, their governments and their institutions. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Fisher has been appointed as the new Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}