Christopher Fyfe

Chris joined the Stroke Association in September 2019 and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the charity’s financial management and procurement. This includes financial planning and strategy, financial reporting, financial systems and financial and management accounting.

After completing a BSc in Accounting and Biotechnology at Strathclyde University, Chris spent his early career with Glasgow City Council completing his Chartered Public Finance Accountant qualification. After that Chris worked in Guyana as a VSO volunteer. This started a long career of financial management within development, humanitarian and environmental organisations across Africa and Europe. Most recently, he was the Group Finance Director of an International Homelessness Charity in London and the International Finance Director of a major environmental NGO in the Netherlands. Chris recently completed an Open University MSc in Development Management including research on the impact of girls’ education programmes on poor, disabled and marginalised girls in rural Kenya.

His role at the Stroke Association includes ensuring the long term financial health of the association. This involves improving financial processes and working with trustees to manage investments so that the organisation can guard the funds raised by supporters and use them to best support stroke survivors and their families.