 So you pay your chief executive slightly more, on that scale'.Goldring was appointed a CBE in 2008 for services to tackling poverty and disadvantage.In February 2018, an investigation by The Times newspaper found that in 2011, prior to Goldring being appointed chief executive, Oxfam allowed three men to resign and sacked four for gross misconduct after an inquiry concerning the behaviour of staff in Haiti, in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.