{"id":81987,"date":"2017-06-28T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9b93a43de24f61f1d89472ea6aa1acb5"},"modified":"2017-06-28T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T09:00:01","slug":"press-release-church-commissioner-appointment-loretta-minghella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81987","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Church Commissioner Appointment: Loretta Minghella"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Queen has approved that Ms Loretta Caroline Rose Minghella, OBE be appointed First Church Estates Commissioner in succession to Sir Andreas Whittam Smith, CBE.<\/p>\n

Background<\/h3>\n

Loretta has been Chief Executive of Christian Aid since 2010, with overall responsibility for its strategy, plans and programmes across the world. She has since overseen responses to emergencies such as earthquakes and typhoons, the refugee crises in the Middle East and Europe, and hunger and famine in East Africa. She has also led Christian Aid\u2019s long term development work and advocacy on major issues affecting the world\u2019s poorest people, including climate change.<\/p>\n

Loretta is a lawyer by training who, after practising as a criminal litigator, began a career in financial regulation in 1990. The first Head of Enforcement Law, Policy and International Cooperation for the Financial Services Authority, she also chaired the International Organisation of Securities Commissions\u2019 Standing Committee on Enforcement and Information-Sharing.<\/p>\n

In 2004, Loretta became Chief Executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, in which capacity she oversaw the payment of over \u00a321 billion in compensation to victims of bank and other financial failures. In recognition of her contribution in that role, she was awarded the OBE in the New Year\u2019s Honours 2010.<\/p>\n

A trustee of the Disasters Emergency Committee and of St Georges House Trust (Windsor Castle), Loretta is a member of the Church of England\u2019s Ethical Investment Advisory Group and a Sarum Canon at Salisbury Cathedral.
\nLoretta has a BA (Hons) in Law from the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n

She lives with her husband and two children in London and attends St Barnabas Church, Dulwich, where she is, in her own words, an \u2018enthusiastic if not talented\u2019 member of the choir.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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