Press Releases24 Feb 11

USPG: Anglicans in World Mission appoints a new General Secretary/Chief Executive

USPG has announced that Janette O’Neill will take over as General Secretary/Chief Executive from 1st May of this year, when the current General Secretary, Bishop Michael Doe retires.

Mrs O’Neill has worked extensively in the Anglican Church in many parts of Africa, and is currently Senior Programme Officer with Episcopal Relief & Development in New York.   

Canon Linda Ali, Chair of Trustees said:
I welcome Mrs Janette O’Neill as the new General Secretary/Chief Executive of USPG: Anglicans in World Mission. Following a highly competitive recruitment process, Janette emerged as an outstanding individual to lead the restructured USPG into a new phase of its life as an Anglican Mission Society.  Janette has an excellent academic background with an extensive track record of church mission programmes, supporting the life and work of Anglican churches around the world. She is already well-known and highly respected throughout the Anglican Communion.  Janette will be a great asset to USPG during these challenging times and the Trustees and Staff join me in welcoming her in an exciting phase of USPG’s work of Leadership Development and Working for Health.

Janette O’Neill said:
I am really excited about taking on the leadership of USPG: Anglicans in World Mission.   I look forward to making and renewing relationships with USPG’s partners around the Anglican Communion, and to meeting its many faithful supporters in the dioceses and parishes here.

Linda Chambers, National Director of USPG Ireland, said:
We are delighted with this appointment, which completes the restructuring of the Society in Britain. We in USPG Ireland are looking forward to working with Janette, and maintaining the close links between the two organisations.