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The big appointment
Barbara Frost will soon take charge of a strategy that aims to bring clean water to a million people, writes Graham Willgoss
Barbara Frost takes over as chief executive at WaterAid when current head Ravi Narayanan retires in September.
Frost held senior management positions at ActionAid, Save the Children and Oxfam Australia before becoming chief executive of Action Disability and Developmentin 1996.
She is also vice-chair of Acevo, something WaterAid chairman Vic Cocker admits was "particularly attractive, becauseshehasagood grounding in governance issues".
He adds: "Although ADD is a smaller organisation, Barbara developed the skills as a chief executive that she will apply to her new position, particularly advocacy and proj ect delivery."
ADD works in a similar way to WaterAid in that it forges partnerships with networks of people in some of the...