Barbara Stocking

Barbara Stocking at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 28, 2012.

Dame Barbara Mary Stocking, Mrs. MacInnes, DBE (b. 28 July 1951, Rugby, Warwickshire) is Vice Chair of the SCHR and Chief Executive of Oxfam GB. She joined the latter in 2001.

A former regional director of the NHS, under her leadership Oxfam has been trying to address crises in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Sudan, as well as addressing the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami and the earthquake in Pakistan. Stocking pushed for more focus on HIV/AIDS.

Under Stocking's leadership, "turnover has hit £300m. Oxfam now has more than 750 shops in the UK, 6,000 staff all over the world and sister organisations in 13 countries. Oxfam officials have gone from the charity into government and helped make new Labour the most charitable administration ever ... [T]he annus mirabilis for Oxfam was 2005, when [Tony] Blair and [Gordon] Brown pushed for the G8 nations to agree to an extraordinary programme of debt relief and subsidies for Africa, Live 8 played Hyde Park, and the Asian tsunami provoked an outburst of altruism."

Damehood

Barbara Stocking was named as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2008.

Family

Barbara Stocking is married to Dr John MacInnes; they have two sons (Andrew and Stephen).

External links

• Oxfam.org
• The New Statesman
• The MT interview: Barbara Stocking