Michael Aaronson

Biography

Mike Aaronson has 35 years practical experience of public and international affairs, initially as a humanitarian relief worker in Eastern Nigeria, next for 16 years as a diplomat, and then for 17 years with Save the Children UK from which he retired as chief executive in 2005 and where he gained direct experience of running a complex international business which he represented at the highest levels to government, in the media and elsewhere. Mike now holds a number of senior non-executive and advisory appointments in the not-for-profit sector including as Chairman of Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Civil Service Commissioner, appointed by the Crown to regulate appointments into the UK Civil Service. He is a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor in the politics department at the University of Surrey. He was made a CBE in 2000 and was knighted in 2006.