REGIONAL Development Agency OneNorthEast has appointed Northumbrian Water managing director John Cuthbert to its board.
Mr Cuthbert, 50, of Chester-le-Street, County Durham, will earn £7,775 a year for working two days a month.
He will take up his three-year post on December 15. He replaces Alistair Arkley, who has been on the board since its inception in 1999.
His appointment was one of 21 made to regional development agencies across the UK by Jacqui Smith, Minister of State for Industry and the Regions,.
Yorkshire Forward will see four new board members.
They are: Stella Guy, Yorkshire and Humber regional secretary of the TGWU; Professor Bob Boucher, University of Sheffield Vice-Chancellor; Nicholas Dakin, deputy principal of John Leggott College, Scunthorpe; and John Spencer, head of operations at the national news agency, the Press Association.
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