[8] After leaving VSO, Goldring worked as a legal researcher for BP for nine months, before rejoining VSO, this time as an employee, first in Barbados and then Bhutan, where he set up its operation, and lived for three years.
Goldring then joined the United Nations Development Programme, serving as Assistant Resident Representative in its field office in Bangladesh where he oversaw projects in the social sectors.
Goldring took a job as Oxfam's country director in Bangladesh, while his wife, Rachel, worked for UNICEF.
Goldring later moved to Fiji and ran the British government's South Pacific development programme.
Following his time in Fiji, Goldring was appointed chief executive of VSO, a role that he held from 1999 to 2008.