Make Justice Work Ambassadors (A-M)

David Ahern – Chief Executive Officer, Shannon Trust

David joined Shannon Trust as CEO in March 2007. Prior to that he worked throughout 2006 in Afghanistan running humanitarian and developmental demining operations. Between 2004 and 2005 he was the CEO of an inter-city youth centre in Hackney running developmental and entertainment programmes. David served for twenty four years in the Army. While in the Army David served as senior staff officer in the British Military Government, Berlin during the collapse of the Wall and as a military advisor to the Zimbabwean Army following independence in 1980. David lives in South London with his wife Jane and their three children.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – Writer and social commentator

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a journalist who has written for The Guardian, Observer, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Evening Standard, The Mail and other newspapers and is now a regular columnist on The Independent and London’s Evening Standard. Known for her sharp commentary on issues of multiculturalism, race and religion, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown won the George Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2002 and the Emma Award for Journalism in 2004. She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books including the acclaimed No Place Like Home and Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the New Britain.

Jessica Asato – Acting Director, Progress

Jessica Asato is the Acting Director of Progress, an independent organisation for Labour party members and trade unionists which seeks to promote open debate and discussion of progressive ideas and policies. Jessica is a Member of the Fabian Society Executive and a former Chair of the Young Fabians. She is also the Chair of Jack Taylor special school in Camden, and is the Joint Acting Chair of Brook – a charity working to promote better sexual health among young people. Last July Jessica set up the Gareth Butler History Trust to raise money to pay for disadvantaged students to go on school history trips. Jessica is also a Trustee of Westminster Challenge, a charity which works to bring politicians together to fundraise for charity.

Rt. Hon. Lord Bingham of Cornhill – Former Senior Law Lord and Former Lord Chief Justice

Lord Bingham is widely regarded as the pre-eminent lawyer of his generation. He recently retired as Senior Law Lord – the highest ranking Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Before this he was Master of the Rolls and then Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He was created a life peer as Baron Bingham of Cornhill, in 1996. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 2005 — the first professional judge to be granted the honour.

Dr Ben Bowling – Criminologist

Ben Bowling is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice and Associate Head (for Criminal Justice Research) of King’s College London School of Law. He has published widely in the fields of crime, criminal justice and community safety. His books include Violent Racism (1999) and Racism, Crime & Justice (2002). He has been involved criminal justice research, training, education and policy development since 1988. He contributed evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and has been a consultant to the United Nations, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Metropolitan Police, Home Office, Liberty and the Commission for Racial Equality. He was a specialist adviser to the House Of Commons Home Affairs Committee (2006-7).

Frances Cairncross – Rector, Exeter College, Oxford University

Frances Cairncross is Rector (ie, head) of Exeter College, Oxford. Previously, she was on the staff of The Economist, most recently as management editor. She is a member of the Scottish Council of Economic Advisers and chairs the Executive Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She was formerly also chair of Britain’s  Economic and Social Research Council, and is past President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (2005-06),  a non-executive director of Stramongate Ltd, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio Four’s “Analysis” programme.

Her book, “The Company of the Future”, was published in 2002 by Harvard Business School Press. She is also the author of  “The Death of Distance”, a study of the economic and social effects of the global communications revolution, first published in 1997 and re-published in a completely new edition in 2001.

Angela Camber – Magistrate

Angela Camber has worked in a range of capacities in and around the criminal justice system. She has been a Magistrate since 1978, and was a Member of the London Probation Board, having chaired the amalgamation of the five former London Probation Services which resulted in the creation of the London Probation Area (the largest area within the new National Probation Service). She has recently retired as a Council Member of Nacro and is now a Patron of the Griffins Society, a voluntary organisation working for the care and resettlement of all female offenders, having chaired the organisation from 1996 to 2007.

Marina Cantacuzino – Founder, Forgiveness ProjectMarina Cantacuzino’s background is journalism and in 2003 — in the lead up to the Iraq War — she started collecting personal stories of atrocity and terrorism which drew a line under the dogma of vengeance. The stories formed a body of work in the celebrated F Word exhibition and led to Marina founding The Forgiveness Project, a UK based not-for-profit unaffiliated to any religious or political group. The Forgiveness Project explores forgiveness and reconciliation through individual real-life stories, and promotes alternatives to violence and revenge.

Lord Carlile of Berriew QC – Barrister

Lord Carlile of Berriew is a practising barrister and Liberal Democrat spokesperson for health in the House of Lords. He was created a life peer in 1999, having previously been the Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire from 1983 to 1997. He is the President of the Howard League for Penal Reform and in 2006 chaired an inquiry into the use of physical restraint against children in custody.

Jon Collins – Campaign Director, the Criminal Justice Alliance

Jon Collins is Campaign Director for the Criminal Justice Alliance. The Criminal Justice Alliance (formerly the Penal Affairs Consortium) is a coalition of organisations committed to improving the criminal justice system. It has 46 members – including campaigning charities, voluntary sector service providers, research institutions, staff associations and trade unions – bringing together a wide range of organisations involved in policy and practice across the criminal justice system. Before joining the Criminal Justice Alliance, Jon was Senior Policy Officer for Women and Justice at the Fawcett Society, having previously worked at Nacro, the crime reduction charity.

Revd Paul Cowley – Executive Director of Social Transformation HTB/Alpha

Paul Cowley was born in Manchester in 1955. At the age of 15 he was expelled from school, lived on thestreets for a short while and then moved into a life of crime. This led to a prison sentence. Upon release, Paul joined the Army, throwing himself into his career for the next 15 years.  Paul became a Christian after doing an Alpha course at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in 1994. He became involved in prison ministry and joined the staff at HTB as Pastor for Prisons, later developing the charity Caring for Ex-Offenders and launching Alpha for Forces. Paul is now the Executive Director of Social Transformation, which includes Alpha for Prisons, Caring for Ex-Offenders and Alpha for Forces. In addition Paul also heads up various areas that HTB is involved in, including The Regeneration Trust which works on The Worlds End estate in London. Paul is married to Amanda and has two children. In June 2002 Paul was ordained by the Church of England after completing a degree at Oakhill Theological College. 

Professor Andrew Coyle CMG – Criminologist and former prison governor

Andrew Coyle is Professor of Prison Studies in the School of Law. Between 1997 and February 2005 he was founding Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies in the School. He is a prisons adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Latin American Institute, the Council of Europe, including its Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and several national governments. He is a member of the UK Foreign Secretary’s Expert Committee against Torture. Before coming to King’s he worked for 25 years at a senior level in the prison services of the United Kingdom. While in the Scottish Prison Service he was Governor of Greenock, Peterhead and Shotts Prisons. Between 1991 and 1997 he was Governor of Brixton Prison in London. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2003 for his contribution to international penal reform.

Rowenna Davis – Journalist

Rowenna Davis is a 24-year-old journalist from London specialising in political and social affairs, often to do with the criminal justice system. She writes features and comment for The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Independent and The New Statesman amongst others, and works part time for Headliners, a charity that focuses on providing journalism opportunities for young people particularly at risk of social exclusion. Rowenna’s most recent articles for The Guardian on the criminal justice system can be found here and here.

Lord Geoffrey Dear – Member of the House of Lords

A distinguished former police officer, (described by the late Sir Robin Day as “one of the best known and most respected police officers of his generation”) and holder of the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery, Lord Dear began his career in Peterborough. After service in Cambridgeshire, he held the positions of Assistant Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire (1972-80), Deputy Assistant Commissioner, then Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1980-85), Chief Constable of West Midlands (1985-90), and HM Inspector of Constabulary (1990-97). In the latter post, he was responsible for the twelve Forces in the NW quarter of England and Wales, and nationally for the police interface with the Criminal Justice System, drugs, crime prevention and detection; Crime Squads and criminal intelligence. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1989; was Knighted in 1997, and created a Peer in 2006.  He plays an active part in the work of the House of Lords from the Cross Benches, especially in the fields of Home Affairs, criminal justice and rural affairs.

Tim Desmond – Chief Executive, Egalitarian Trust

Tim Desmond is Chief Executive of the Egalitarian Trust, which combines a museum, the Galleries of Justice which explores the social history of crime and punishment and the National Centre for Citizenship and Law which is an agency for social change with the purpose of actively reducing crime amongst young people. In recent years he has set up ‘Help a Nottinghamshire Child’ which has raised over £200,000 for young people to take part in Citizenship activities. He is also the founding Chair of Nottingham Speakers Corner, the first in the UK outside London for 150 years.

Dexter Dias QC – human rights and criminal law barrister

Professor Emeritus David Downes – Criminologist

David Downes is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, where he was a former Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. His books include Contrasts in Tolerance: Postwar Penal Policy in The Netherlands and England and Wales (1988) and (co-editor) Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: From Moral Panics to States of Denial – Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen (2007).

Cathy Eastburn – Founder and Director of Good Vibrations

Cathy set up Good Vibrations in 2003 with the aim of helping prisoners develop crucial life and work skills through participating in gamelan (Indonesian bronze percussion) workshops. Since then, Good Vibrations has worked in 26 institutions with nearly 2000 people, including some of the most difficult and hard-to-reach in the UK prisoner population. Cathy started learning gamelan at London’s Southbank Centre in 1996 and quickly became aware of the special qualities of this most engaging and communal form of music. Her professional background is in charity fundraising, strategic planning and project management, including having been Head of Fundraising at the Refugee Council and at the Campaign to Protect Rural England.  

Simon Fanshawe – Writer, broadcaster and campaigner

Simon Fanshawe is a writer, broadcaster and a non-exec director in the public and private sector. For over twenty five years he has combined a life in comedy, broadcasting and journalism with an active political engagement. He was previously Chairman of War on Want, the international development charity and the co-founder of Stonewall, the lesbian and gay equality lobby. He has written widely about restorative justice and reconciliation and is a patron of the Forgiveness Project. He is Currently Chair of the University of Sussex and of the Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership.

Harry Fletcher – Assistant General Secretary, Napo

Harry Fletcher has been Assistant General Secretary of Napo with responsibility for press, parliamentary activity, public speaking and campaigning for over 20 years. He has been involved in many significant campaigns with Napo.  Most currently these have been around fighting for a properly resourced and publically run criminal justice system and against the proposed, massive, government cuts to budgets and staff in the Probation Service. As press spokesperson for Napo, Harry represents the union on a weekly basis on television, national and local radio, and in the media. During his time as a political lobbyist he has drafted hundreds of parliamentary questions, speeches for adjournment debates and scores of briefings for MPs and Peers.  In 2004 he helped establish the first all Party trade union group on Criminal Justice issues, this was followed in 2006 by the establishment of a similar cross Party group for the Family Courts and in 2008 by the all Party group on Drugs, Alcohol and Harm Reduction.

Professor Chris Fox

Professor Chris Fox leads the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University. He specialises in economic evaluations of crime reduction and criminal justice interventions. Other areas where he regularly undertakes evaluations include young people’s services and the legal advice sector. Chris is Joint Editor of Safer Communities – a journal for policy-makers and practitioners working in the crime reduction and community justice sectors. He is also a Trustee of CSV – the UK’s largest volunteering and training organisation.

Charles Fraser CBE – Chief Executive, St Mungo’s

Charles Fraser has been Chief Executive of St Mungo’s since 1994. St Mungo’s is London’s leading homelessness charity, running a wide range of “street-to-home” housing services which are backed up by programmes which address ill-health and addictions, and education and employment. It is also a main provider (with St Giles) of “through the gates” housing advice and support in several London prisons. Charles is currently a member of the Mayor’s Delivery Board which was set up to reduce – and hopefully eliminate – rough sleeping in London by 2012.

Roger Graef OBE – Filmmaker, writer and criminologist

Roger Graef is an award winning filmmaker who is Founder and Chief Executive of Films of Record. He has made more than a hundred films in various roles and was awarded the Bafta Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2004. In 2006, he was given an OBE for service to broadcasting. He has directed drama, theatre, opera, and comedy as well as current affairs and documentaries. But he is best known for his films on police and criminal justice. In addition to this he is a criminologist at the LSE and has written several books on the criminal justice system. He is also Chair of Theatre de Complicite, social affairs advisor to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and was a founder Board Member of Channel 4.

Lord Michael Hasting CBE 

Michael Hastings is KPMG’s Global Head of Citizenship and Diversity. He was previously the BBC’s first Head of Corporate Social Responsibility. Michael is a non-executive Director of British Telecom (on the Board for Responsible and Sustainable Business) and a Trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation. He represents KPMG International on the Global Corporate Citizenship International Committee of the World Economic Forum and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development. In 2009 he became a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Diversity and Talent. In January 2003, Michael was awarded a CBE in recognition of his services to crime reduction, including 15 years as Chairman of Crime Concern. He was formerly an adviser to Lord John Stevens QPM, the former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner and served on the Commission for Racial Equality.  In 2005, Michael was awarded the honour of an independent peerage to the House of Lords by Her Majesty The Queen and now Michael serves as a member of the Communications Select Committee. Again in 2005, he received the UNICEF award for his ‘outstanding contribution to understanding and effecting solutions for Africa’s children’.

Jonathan Heawood – Director, English PEN

Jonathan Heawood is the Director of English PEN, a UK based charity working to promote literature and human rights. Jonathan was previously Editorial Director of the Fabian Society, where he published a wide variety of political books and pamphlets and edited the quarterly Fabian Review. Having spent most of his 20s completing a PhD at Cambridge on seventeenth-century closet drama, Jonathan’s first proper (albeit temporary) job was as Deputy Literary Editor of the Observer. He continues to write on culture and politics for a range of publications, including the Independent on Sunday, Prospect, the New Statesman, the London Review of Books and Country Life. He wrote the introduction to Orwell: The Observer Years (2003).

Professor Carol Hedderman – Criminologist

Carol Hedderman is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester and a member of the Griffins Society Council. She was formerly Assistant Director of the Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate where she had lead responsibility for statistics and research concerning sentencing and the management and impact of the Prison and Probation Services.

Saul Hewish – Co-director of Rideout

Saul Hewish is one of the country’s leading arts practitioners specialising in work within the criminal justice system. He is a co-director of Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilition) who he established with Chris Johnston in 1999. Rideout have built a strong reputation for facilitating high quality participatory arts projects in criminal justice contexts that benefit the participants and offer new perspectives on the way the criminal justice system can function. Past projects include The Creative Prison at HMP Gartree in which Rideout worked with prisoners, prison staff, and the internationally renowned architect Will Alsop, to draw up plans for a new type of prison that made priorities of education, rehabilitation and creativity. As a direct result of this project, Rideout were involved in discussions with government civil servants on issues of prison commissioning and design. Prior to setting up Rideout, Saul was a founder member and former director of Geese Theatre Company (UK), and he is a former Butler Trust Award winner.

Clive Hopwood – Director, the Writers in Prison Network

Clive is a writer/storyteller/editor/director with a background in publishing, theatre, community arts and oral storytelling. Over the last 40 years he has written over 100 books, had more than 20 plays performed, edited countless books and magazines, told many oral stories, organised arts festivals, started writers’ groups and reminiscence projects, directed stage plays, produced video and audio works, given talks, run workshops, created exhibitions and designed a wide range of publicity material. Currently Clive is director of the Writers in Prison Network. He was a Lord Longford Prize winner in 2004 and has been the subject of a Radio 4 documentary, ‘The Goodnight Tapes’ (2005).

Stephen Howard – Managing Director, Business in the Community

Stephen Howard joined Business in the Community (BITC) as Managing Director in September 2005 bringing a wealth of senior, corporate sector management expertise to BITC. After beginning his career as a practising lawyer in the US, Stephen held a number of different roles in the Cookson Group PLC culminating in being appointed Group Chief Executive between 1997 and 2004. Between 2004 and 2005, Stephen was appointed Group Chief Executive of Novar PLC, the global manufacturing company. Stephen’s ongoing commitment to helping tackle homelessness on both a national and global scale has resulted in a non-executive directorship for Habitat for Humanity Great Britain, the charity with a mission to eliminate poverty housing. Other non-executive directorships include, SEGRO PLC and Balfour Beatty plc, St Georges College and the International Community church.

David Howarth MP – Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Justice

David Howarth is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cambridge. He gained his seat in the 2005 general election, was appointed Shadow Solicitor General in 2007, and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in 2009. Prior to entering parliament he was a Lecturer in Law and Economics at the University of Cambridge and the Leader of Cambridge City Council.

Simon Hughes MP – Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Simon Hughes is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Bermondsey, first entering Parliament as the youngest opposition MP in 1983. Simon was runner up to Charles Kennedy (with 43% of the vote) in the party’s leadership election in the summer of 1999 and was the party’s Shadow Home Secretary until 2003. In 2004 Simon was elected Party President, a post he held until the end of 2008. In July 2005 Simon was appointed both as Shadow Attorney General and as spokesperson on Equality issues before becoming the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons in 2007. In January 2009 he was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Simon has been committed to the protection of civil liberties throughout his political career and campaigned for penal reform during his time as Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson.

Dr Rupa Huq – Sociologist

Rupa Huq is a sociologist at Kingston University where her research interests include youth culture and popular music. She is the author of Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World. Previously she was a lecturer at University of Manchester during which time she held a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. An emerging voice Huq regularly contributes to the Guardian, New Statesman, Progress Magazine, Tribune and the Times Higher Education supplement on a range of issues.

Linda Jack – Former youth worker and prospective European parliamentary candidate

A former youth worker, Linda Jack is Youth Policy Advisor at the FSA on the Financial Capability Strategy and leads on the work to reach young people not in education employment or training. She is currently a prospective European parliamentary candidate for East of England and sits on the Liberal Democrat’s International Relations and Federal Policy Committees and is currently a member of policy working groups on Globalisation and Youth. An active trade unionist, Linda has served as a member of the Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth and Community Workers and chair of Unison’s national Youth and Community Workers Forum.

Marion Janner – Leading Campaigner

Marion Janner is the Director of Bright, a social marketing charity which runs the Star Wards project. Marion set up Star Wards following her experiences as an acute inpatient. The project works with mental health trusts to improve the daily experiences and treatment outcomes of acute inpatients. It inspires and shares best practice in therapeutic engagement of patients, to make best use of their time and skills and those of staff. Marion also specialises in the benefits of the media for people with learning disabilities. Marion’s work received public recognition when she was shortlisted for the Campaigning & Public Life category of the 2007 Morgan Stanley Great Britons award.

The Rt. Rev. James Jones – Bishop of Liverpool and Bishop for Prisons

James Jones became the Bishop of Liverpool in 1998 having been the Bishop of Hull since 1994. He is a member of the House of Lords, Bishop for Prisons, Visitor to St Peter’s College in the University of Oxford, Co-President of Liverpool Hope University and Adjunct Professor teaching an MA on theology and the environment, a Vice President of Tear Fund, WWF Ambassador and a Fellow of the RSA. For four years he chaired the New Deal for Communities programme in Liverpool (Kensington Regeneration) and has championed community-led regeneration in lectures, articles and broadcasts. He also chairs the Governing Body of the faith-based St Francis of Assisi City Academy jointly sponsored by the Catholic and Anglican Dioceses.

Pat Jones – Director, Prisoners Education Trust

Pat Jones recently took over as Director of the Prisoners Education Trust, a UK charity which funds over 2000 prisoners each year to take distance learning and other courses and provides support for prisoner learning through peer mentor training. She has a voluntary sector background and extensive experience of grant-making and management. She spent 7 years as Deputy Director of CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency, and has broad experience over many years as a lecturer and trainer. Pat became interested in how voluntary organisations work within the criminal justice system as a result of 3 years voluntary experience as a member of a prison Independent Monitoring Board (IMB).

Andy Keen-Downs – Director, Prison Advice & Care Trust (Pact)

Andy Keen-Downs is the Director of pact; the Prison Advice & Care Trust, an independent national charity which works as a ‘critical friend’ of NOMS, and which develops initiatives and delivers services at prisons, courts, and in communities. Pact’s work for prisoners; prisoners’ children and families and ex-offenders is focused on human relationships and the ethos of ‘the innate dignity of the human being’. Andy is also a member of the Executive Board of the Churches Criminal Justice Forum (CCJF), an ecumenical network which has been responsible for the development of the community chaplaincy concept.

Amir Khan – Boxer

Bolton-born boxing sensation Amir Khan shot to fame after landing a silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004. Since turning professional a year later, Amir has lived up to his promise with a string of knockout wins. Outside the ring he has invested both time and money into community work and has opened his own boxing club, Gloves Gym, to help re-engage local youths and to keep them off the streets. He is also an ambassador for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Gary Lashko – Chief Executive of Carr-Gomm

Gary is Chief Executive of Carr-Gomm, a national charity providing support and housing. He was previously Chief Executive of Providence Row Housing Association, working with street homeless people in London’s East End from October 1997, which he joined after being Director of Development for Carr-Gomm. Gary worked briefly for the Refugee Housing Association. Between 1988 and 1994 Gary worked for Centrepoint, the housing association and charity for young homeless people. His career in supported housing began in Carr-Gomm in the early 1980’s and has worked for two Health Authorities in mental health services. He is chair of the Revolving Doors Agency that works for offenders with mental health problems and co-editor of the Housing Care and Support Journal.

Eilís Lawlor – Head, Valuing What Matters team, New Economics Foundation

Eilís Lawlor is head of nef’s Valuing What Matters team. The Valuing What Matters team develop ways to measure, quantify and value things that are not market-traded. The aim of this is to challenge the approach to public and private decision-making that is driven by financial considerations and ensure that the things that matters to people, communities and the environment get included appropriately. Prior to becoming Head, Eilís led the Measuring What Matters programme which applied Social Return on Investment to public policy interventions for the first time. As well as expertise in measurement and evaluation, she has a strong grounding in many areas of social policy criminal justice and economic development. She is also an accredited SROI practitioner.

Thomas Lawson, Deputy Chief Executive, Prisoners Abroad

Thomas joined Prisoners Abroad in September 2007.  He has increased its income, financial health, and its network.  He works with government to make sure that those returning from prison overseas are afforded at least the same support as people who leave UK prisons and that the needs of Britons in prison overseas are not overlooked.  He is particularly interested in the penal affairs sector’s focus on impact assessment and service user engagement.  He has a track record in significantly developing income and profile for organisations; At NAM, the HIV information charity he helped triple its reach and double its income. He has been a director of his family’s long-established retail business for 15 years but his main focus has been his 17 year career in the UK and international voluntary sector.  He has also worked at the National Peace Council, UNICEF and the Terrence Higgins Trust.

John Leech MP – Member of Parliament

John Leech entered Parliament at the first attempt in 2005 when he was elected to represent Manchester Withington constituency. As well as being the only Liberal Democrat member of the Transport Select Committee, on which he has served since his election, John has been the party’s Shadow Transport Spokesperson since 2006. John has been campaigning for improved cancer services in south Manchester in his capacity as a ‘parliamentary champion’ of the UK Lung Cancer Coalition, and as road safety charity Brake’s ‘Parliamentarian of the Year for Road Safety’, he has been leading calls for the default speed limit to be reduced from 30mph to 20mph.

Baroness Linklater – Vice President, Butler Trust

Baroness Linklater has a background in social work having qualified as a Child Care Officer in the late ‘60′s.  She became increasingly involved in the criminal justice system and was involved in starting the first Visitor’s Centre for prisoners’ families at Pentonville in 1971.  She helped to found the Butler Trust in 1984 which is a national award scheme recognising excellent work by people employed in the prison services of the UK. She is now the Vice-President of the Trust. Created a Life Peer in 1997, Baroness Linklater speaks on criminal justice matters and special educational needs.  A Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation since 1991, she has also chaired their initiative ‘Rethinking Crime and Punishment’ which looked at the use of imprisonment and alternatives to custody from 2001 to 2008. She is a Patron, inter alia, of the National Family and Parenting Institute, Action for Prisoners’ Families, the Probation Boards Association, National Schizophrenia Fellowship Scotland and Research Autism. She is also an Advisory Board Member of the Beacon Fellowship and the Koestler Award Trust and a Council Member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Professor Ian Loader – Criminologist

Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminology, and a Professorial Fellow of All Souls College. He is author or co-author of Cautionary Tales (1994, Avebury, with S. Anderson, R. Kinsey and C. Smith), Youth, Policing and Democracy (1996, Palgrave), Crime and Social Change in Middle England (2000, Routledge, with E. Girling and R. Sparks), Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture (2003, Oxford, with A. Mulcahy) and Civilizing Security (2007, Cambridge, with N. Walker). He has also written numerous papers on contemporary transformations in policing and security, and on the intersections between politics, criminology and crime control. Ian is an Editor of the British Journal of Criminology and Associate Editor of Theoretical Criminology. He is also a member of the Commission on English Prisons Today and co-convener, with the Police Foundation, of the Oxford Policing Policy Forum.

Humfrey Malins CBE MP – Member of Parliament

Humfrey Malins is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Woking. He gained his seat in the 1997 general election, and has served as the Vice-Chairman on the Legal Committee and as a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee. From September 2001 to December 2005, he was Shadow Minister for Home Affairs. With his legal experience as a solicitor, a District Judge and a Crown Recorder he remains one of Parliaments foremost experts in criminal justice and home affairs.

Kevin McGrath – Senior Advisor to F&C REIT Asset Management

Kevin McGrath MRICS is Senior Advisor to F&C REIT Asset Management and Chair of The McGrath Charitable Trust as well as Trustee of a number of other Charities. Kevin sat as a Commissioner on the Commission into English Prisons Today and is the publisher of Tribune Magazine, a well respected left-of-centre political publication. Kevin is a former Chairman of Queens Park Rangers Football Club plc and stood as a UK and European Parliamentary candidate. He has an unblemished track record of success in business and a strong personal commitment to public service.

Professor Rod Morgan – Former Chairman, Youth Justice Board

Rod Morgan is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor at Cardiff University and the London School of Economics. Until February 2007 he was Chairman of the Youth Justice Board and, prior to that, HM Chief Inspector of the Probation Service for England and Wales. He is the author of many books and articles on aspects of policing, criminal justice and penal policy, and was a lay magistrate for 25 years. He has also written three books on torture – a topic on which he advises Amnesty International and the Council of Europe – and is the Co-Editor of the principal text in the field of criminology in the UK, the Oxford Handbook of Criminology. He is a trustee of the Police Foundation, the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Kings College, London, and several community organisations working with young offenders.

Leslie Morphy – Chief Executive, Crisis

Leslie Morphy is Chief Executive of Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people. Her career before joining Crisis was largely in the not-for-profit sector, with a strong emphasis on social exclusion and expertise in learning and skills development. She was a Director at The Prince’s Trust for nearly 10 years, latterly as UK Director of Programmes and Policy delivering programmes to 40,000 young people a year. Before working at The Prince’s Trust, Leslie was Head of Research and Development at the Basic Skills Agency, whose work formed the bedrock of government policy on literacy and numeracy. She previously ran a social enterprise, Broadcasting Support Services, which connected televison and radio audiences to information and services.

Joyce Moseley OBE – Chief Executive, Catch22

Joyce Moseley is Chief Executive of Catch22, a national charity that works with young people who find themselves in difficult situations. Joyce was Chief Executive of youth charity Rainer from 1999 and went on to lead Catch22 when the charity formed from the merger of Rainer and crime prevention charity Crime Concern in 2008. Starting her career as a social worker and community worker, Joyce became director of social services for the London Borough of Hackney. As a member of the Youth Justice Board from its inception, she led on workforce strategies and promoted the need for prevention. She is a trustee of “The Who Cares? Trust” which promotes the needs of children in public care and is a non executive director of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust which has a worldwide reputation for therapeutic approaches in mental health and offers both training and direct clinical work. In 2006 Joyce was awarded an OBE for services to youth justice.

Geoff Mulgan – Director, the Young Foundation 

Since late 2004 Geoff Mulgan has been director of the Young Foundation. Under Michael Young, the foundation initiated dozens of new organisations and initiatives including the Open University and Which, patient-led healthcare and schools for social entrepreneurs. Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff worked in various roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos and chief adviser to Gordon Brown MP. Geoff has advised many governments around the world and is a part time adviser to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd; a visiting professor at LSE, UCL, Melbourne University and the China Executive Leadership Academy; on the boards of the Work Foundation and the Design Council; and chair of Involve and of the Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. His most recent books are The Art of Public Strategy’ (2009) and Good and Bad Power: the Ideals and Betrayals of Government (2006).