Chitra Bharucha

Chitra Bharucha MBE BS, FRCPath, FRSA, (born 6 April 1945) is a former consultant haematologist and former vice chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Born in Madurai, India, she was educated at Ewart School, Madras and Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, gaining her medical qualification before moving to the UK in 1972. Between 1981 and 2000, she was consultant clinical haematologist at Belfast City Hospital and was deputy director of the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service. She was elected to the General Medical Council in 1999 where she served on a number of panels including chair of the Fitness to Practise Adjudication Panels.

In 1996 Bharucha moved into positions in the media industry, serving on the BBC Broadcasting Council for Northern Ireland until 1999. In April 2001 she was appointed Northern Ireland member of the Independent Television Commission, where she served until December 2003 when the ITC was subsumed into Ofcom, and she became a member of the Advertising Standards Authority Council in November 2004.

In April 2002, Bharucha was appointed Chair of the Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs for the Food Standards Agency, and in 2006 she was appointed Lay Member of the Review Body for Judicial Complaints.

She was awarded a MBE in the 2008 New Year's Honours List for services to the animal feedstuffs industry.

BBC

In October 2006, Bharucha was appointed as Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust, the body that succeeded the Board of Governors as the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation. She was to be the deputy to Michael Grade, the then BBC Chairman. Grade resigned soon after the formation of the Trust on 1 November 2006 and Bharucha became the Acting BBC Chairman, a position that she held until Sir Michael Lyons took over the chairmanship on 1 May 2007.

Bharucha stood down from her role as Vice Chairman of the Trust on 31 October 2010.

References and external links

• BBC Trust. "Chitra Bharucha". http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/about/bbc_trust_members/chitra_bharucha.html. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
  • BBC (12 October 2006). "Press Release: New BBC Trust to represent the public interest". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/10_october/12/trustees.shtml. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
  • BBC (28 November 2006). "Press Release: Michael Grade resigns as BBC Chairman". http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/11_november/28/grade.shtml. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
• ITC. "Members and Directors - Chitra Bharucha". http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/itc/about_the_itc/the_structure/members_directors/biographies/show_biog.asp-people_id=28.html. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
• ASA. "Council Members". http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/about/council/. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
• GM Science Review. "Members' Interests - Chitra Bharucha". http://www.gmsciencedebate.org.uk/panel/members/bharucha.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
• Food Standards Agency. "Advisory Committee On Animal Feedingstuffs". Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20070609153119/http://www.food.gov.uk/science/ouradvisors/animalfeedingstuffs/. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 

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Preceded by Michael Grade as Chair designate; Anthony Salz as Acting Chair of the BBC Board of Governors	(Acting) Chairman of the BBC Trust 1 January 2007 – 1 May 2007	Succeeded by Sir Michael Lyons as Chair
Preceded by Anthony Salz as Vice Chair of the BBC Board of Governors	Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust 1 January 2007 – 31 October 2010	Succeeded by Position currently vacant

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Name	Bharucha, Chitra
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Date of birth	6 April 1945
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