The government has appointed Kate Sayer to the board of the Charity Commission.
Sayer spent almost 36 years as a partner at the charity accountancy firm Sayer Vincent before joining Oxfam GB in January 2020 to lead a new integrity and ethics team as part of the charity’s response to its safeguarding crisis, a role she held until December 2023.
She replaces the former accountant Will Lifford, who stepped down from the regulator’s board in December after five years.
Sayer, who has been appointed for a three-year term until 8 March 2029, is the chair of Freedom from Torture and a trustee of the disability and mental health charity the Barnwood Trust.
The former Third Sector columnist previously chaired the NGO umbrella body Bond and the Association of Chairs, and spent a year as independent chair of the audit and risk committee at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
She was also a non-executive director of Charity Bank, an honorary senior visiting fellow in the faculty of management at Cass Business School and spent 15 years as a member of the Charities Sorp Committee.
Sayer will be paid £350 per day for her work with the commission.