Dorothy Dalton

Dorothy Dalton is editor of Governance: essential information for effective trustees. She is a leading expert on governance and advises several national charities. She has written several books on governance.

With a ‘first’ in mathematics, Dorothy, a former Headteacher, was chief executive of ACEVO, the association of chief executives of voluntary organisation from 1992 to 2000. From 2000 to 2003 she was a non-executive director of the Inland Revenue. She is a trustee of EveryChild and Grandparents Association, and governor of Northwood College where she chairs the Governance Committee. She has been a trustee of several charities including Marie Curie Cancer Care and has been chair of trustees of the Journey of a Lifetime Trust (JoLt) and chairman of governors of Orley Farm School Trust. She is a fellow of the Leadership Trust Foundation and of International Students House. She is on the Advisory Council of the Institute for Global Ethics UK Trust and of the Leadership Trust. She founded the Journey of a Lifetime Trust (JoLt), the Network of Women Chairs, and Groundbreakers: Voluntary sector women leaders.

During her spare time, Dorothy has organised and led month-long challenging expeditions for disabled and disadvantaged teenagers to remote corners of the world as well as organising and participating in fundraising expeditions such as crossing the Jordanian Desert by camel or canoeing, kayaking and white-water rafting the Zambezi between Zimbabwe and Zambia.

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