Valerie Ann Taylor, OBE (born 8 February 1944) is a British-Bangladeshi physiotherapist, social worker and philanthropist.
[1] She is the founder of Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Savar, Dhaka District.
[5] She grew up living close to National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England.
[6] In 1969, Taylor came to Bangladesh, under contract for 15 months, with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to work as a physiotherapist in the Christian Hospital, Chandraghona in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
[5] At the start of her career, she was running CRP with four patients in an abandoned warehouse of the Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital.