Annie Hudson, Trustee, Oxfam GB

Annie Hudson joined the Oxfam GB Board in January 2020 and is the lead Trustee for safeguarding. She has a professional background in social work, safeguarding and children’s services. She is Chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (for England). Formerly, she was Director of Children’s Services at Bristol City Council and then at London Borough of Lambeth. She was also previously Chief Executive of The College of Social Work.

Earlier in her career Annie worked as a social worker, and as an academic where she researched and published on child protection and young women’s experiences of care. As Bristol's Director of Children's Services, Annie worked with the BBC on the highly acclaimed 'Protecting our Children' TV series. In 2012 she was given a national Social Worker of the Year award for her 'outstanding contribution to social work'.

As Oxfam’s lead trustee for safeguarding, she chairs our Safeguarding & Ethics Committee; with many others, she has been seeking to make sure that these issues are fully integral to all aspects of Oxfam's vital and inspirational work across the world