Chitra Bharucha

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, (born 6 April 1945) is a former consultant

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and former vice chairman of the

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, the governing body of the

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. She became the first woman and first South Asian ("Asian" in British English) to head the BBC Born in

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, she has lived in the UK since 1972. She was educated at Ewart School,

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and

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, gaining her medical qualification before moving to the UK in 1972. Between 1981 and 2000, she was consultant clinical haematologist at

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and was deputy director of the

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Blood Transfusion Service. She was elected to the

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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

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, where she served until December 2003 when the ITC was subsumed into

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, 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

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, and in 2006 she was appointed Lay Member of the Review Body for Judicial Complaints. She was appointed 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

, the body that succeeded the

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as the governing body of the

. She was to be the deputy to

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, 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

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took over the chairmanship on 1 May 2007. She became a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2009. Bharucha stood down from her role as Vice Chairman of the Trust on 31 October 2010.

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