Barbara stocking biography
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Barbara Stocking
British public servant
Dame Barbara Mary Stocking, DBE (born 28 July 1951) is a British public servant, former chief executive of Oxfam GB,[1] and former president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
Early life and education
Stocking was born in Rugby, Warwickshire to Methodist parents, her mother a homemaker and her father a postman.[2] She attended Rugby High School for Girls,[3] where she was Head Girl and New Hall, Cambridge, in 1969, graduating with a degree in Pharmacology.
She was the first in her family to go to university.[2]
Health care systems
On graduating from Cambridge, Stocking briefly contemplated a career in science[2] before taking a job as secretary to a committee at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, where she familiarized herself with the Veterans Health Administration hospital system.[4]
After starting work in 1979 for the World Health Organization in W