Bharat Mehta OBE - Chief Executive
Bharat Mehta is the Chief Executive.
Before taking up this post, he was Chief Executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (NSF, renamed RETHINK), one of the largest British mental health charities working with severely mentally ill people, their carers and relatives. He joined NSF as Director of Development and later became its Chief Executive. He has also worked for the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Council for the Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). Prior to joining NSF, he was a Principal Officer in the Social Services Department of the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
Bharat is currently a trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He was a non-executive director of the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust for five years until 2009 and the chair of governors of Bowes Primary School, a state school in North London, for six years.
In January 2000, he was appointed OBE for services to NSF and the voluntary sector.