A new Associate Non-Executive Director has been appointed to the Board of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Cathia Jenainati is Professor of Gender and Leadership, and the Head of the School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire.
Trust Chair, Graham Russell, said she was sure to be a huge asset to the Board and the Trust as a whole. He added: “With Cathia’s appointment we are both strengthening our links with the University of Gloucestershire and broadening the experience and expertise of our Board, which can only be a great thing for us as a Trust. I look forward to working with Cathia and our other Directors as we continue to develop and improve the Trust for the people working within it and the communities we serve.”
Dr Jenainati said she was ‘honoured and thrilled’ to be jojning the Board. She added: “I look forward to broadening the existing relationship between the Trust and the University of Gloucestershire. I am a strong advocate for the NHS and feel privileged to be part of the GHC’s board. I hope that my commitment to the tenets of social justice, gender equity and sustainability, and my experience of leadership during times of change will bring some value to the work that the board is undertaking”.
Prior to her appointment at UoG, Cathia was the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the Lebanese American University (2019-2023) and worked across the US and the Middle East.
She established programmes in Liberal Education and oversaw a large number of programmes ranging from Nutrition, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics to Performing Arts, Political Sciences, History and Sociology.
From 2003-2019 Cathia was at the University of Warwick where she occupied various roles, culminating in the Foundation of the School for Cross-Faculty studies in 2015 where she was appointed as Founding Head of School. Cathia founded the Global Sustainable Development unit at UoW and oversaw the establishment of the Research Institute for GSD. She also founded the Liberal Arts program which is predicated on the pillars of Social Justice, Gender Equity and Sustainability.
During her career, she has set up education programmes in Australia, the USA, Europe and the Middle East. Cathia holds a BSc Biology, BA Literature, MA Comparative Literature and PhD Comparative Literature and a PGCE. She is a certified coach who is committed to supporting individuals from under-represented communities during their leadership journey.
