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Peter Luff MP - Chairman, Business and Enterprise Select Committee
Peter has been a Worcestershire MP since 1992. He lives in the country with his wife, Julia. They have two grown-up children, Rosie and Oliver. He worked for 4 years for Peter, now Lord, Walker when he was MP for Worcester. He then went on to be head of private office to the late Sir Edward Heath in the early 1980s. After this he became a successful businessman in the...Read More
Keith Vaz MP - Chairman, Home Affairs Select Committee
Chairman, Home Affairs Select Committee, House of Commons Keith Vaz was born in Aden, Yemen on November 26th 1956. His parents were from Goa, India, and the family arrived in Britain from Aden in 1965. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he recieved a BA (1979) and an MA (1987). Keith Vaz's previous...Read More
Elfyn Llwyd MP - Parliamentary Leader Plaid Cym
Elfyn Llwyd is Member of Parliament for Meirionydd Nant Conwy. He was born in Betws y Coed in 1951 and was educated Llanrwst and the University of Aberystwyth. Before being elected, Elfyn worked as a barrister. His main political interests are home affairs, transport and agriculture. Elfyn speaks Welsh and English. He enjoys pigeon breeding, reading, travelling and rugby...Read More
Simon Burns MP - Opposition Whip
Simon was born in September 1952. He was educated at Christ the King School, Accra, Ghana; Stamford School, Stamford, Lincolnshire; and Worcester College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA Honours Degree in Modern History. He also has an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Anglia University. He has a daughter, Amelia, and a son, Bobby. Simon was Member of Parliament for...Read More
Adam Price MP - Member, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
Adam won the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr seat in 2001, one of only 8 seats gained from Labour in that General Election. He retained the seat in the 2005 General Election with a much increased majority. A former managing director of an economics consultancy firm, Adam speaks for Plaid Cymru at Westminster on Treasury and Trade and Industry matters. In 2002 he won the...Read More
Robert Graham - Harrison - Senior Clerk, House of Lords
Robert Graham-Harrison CMG is a Senior Clerk at the House of Lords. He has been Clerk to the Select Committee on Economic Affairs since December 2003. Most of his previous career was spent in international development. After working with VSO in India and then with the Greater London Council, he held a range of positions with the Department for International Development (and its...Read More
Rt. Hon Hilary Armstrong MP - Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for Cabinet Office and Social Exclusion
In 1985, Hilary was selected by the local Labour Party in North West Durham to be their parliamentary candidate and she was first elected to parliament in General Election of 1987. As a Member of Parliament Hilary has served as an opposition frontbench spokesperson on Education (1988-1992). In 1994 she was appointed the Treasury Affairs Team. In 1995 she was made Opposition...Read More
Mike Gapes MP - Chairman, Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Before his election to Parliament Mike Gapes worked at Labour Party Headquarters for 15 years including serving from 1988 to 1992 as International Secretary of the Labour Party, and prior to that as a Policy Research Officer and as the National Student Organiser of the Labour Party. Mike has also worked in the National Health Service, in Adult Education and as a Voluntary...Read More
Mark Oaten MP - Former Shadow Home Secretary
During the early 1980's he joined the SDP and acted as agent in a number of elections. In 1986 he became one of the country's youngest Councillors and the first ever SDP Councillor on Watford District Council. He served for eight years, culminating in leading a group of six other SDP councillors. In 1992 he stood for Parliament in Watford getting 10,000 votes. Mark worked...Read More
Paddy Tipping MP - Former Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
Paddy Tipping MP: Before entering Parliament Paddy worked as a social worker (1972 - 1979). From 1979 to 1983 he was Project Leader for the Church of England Children's Society. Paddy was then a Councillor for Notts County Council and Director of Nottinghamshire Co-operative Development Agency and he was also involved with the Nottingham Development Enterprise. Paddy has been...Read More
Clive Betts MP - Member, Communities and Local Government Select Committee
Clive began his political career in 1973 and in 1976 was elected as a member of Sheffield City Council. He became Leader of the Council in 1987, having served on the Housing and Finance committees for several years. He remained on the Council until his election as Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe in 1992. Clive was appointed a Government Whip in 1997 and...Read More
Nick Raynsford MP
Nick Raynsford is an MP for Greenwich from 1992-1997 and for Greenwich and Woolwich since 1997. He was made Privy Councillor in January 2001. He was Minister of State for Local and Regional Government from July 2001 to May 2005. He was Minister of State for Housing and Planning from July 1999 to June 2001. Nick Raynsford has also served as Minister of State for Housing,...Read More
Martin Horwood MP
Martin went to Oxford University to read Modern History in 1981, and was elected President of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then Chair of the party's national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students. After graduating and leaving student politics, Martin worked first in a London advertising agency and then in the voluntary sector. In 1990 he moved to Oxford to...Read More
Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP - Chair, Justice Select Committee, House of Commons
Alan Beith is Chairman of the Justice Committee at the House of Commons. He was appointed to the Privy Council in the Queen's Birthday Honours June 1992. Alan Beith is a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee and of the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission. He was born on 20th April 1943. He was educated at Kings School, Macclesfield and...Read More
Vincent Cable - Former Acting Leader, Liberal Democrats
Vincent Cable entered Parliament at his fifth attempt in 1997, gaining this seat from the Conservatives. He was Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2007. Vincent Cable read Natural Science and Economics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, where he was President of the Union, followed by a PhD at Glasgow University. Vincent worked as Treasury Finance Officer...Read More
Eleanor Laing MP - Shadow Minister for Justice
Mrs Laing has been MP for Epping Forest since 1997. She lives near Epping with her son, Matthew, who was born one week after the 2001 general election. Born in Paisley in 1958, Eleanor graduated BA LLB from Edinburgh University in 1982. She was the first woman to be elected President of Edinburgh University Union. She practised law in Edinburgh, in the City of London and in...Read More
Joe Fitzpatrick MSP
Joe worked as an assistant to Shona Robison MSP and Stewart Hosie MP in their Dundee Constituency Office. He was first elected to Dundee City Council in 1999 when he overturned a large Labour majority and was re-elected with an increased majority in 2003. In 2005 Joe stood for the SNP in Dundee West at the General Election slashing Labour's majority in half. In May 2007 he won...Read More
Steve McGinness - Head of Information Office, House of Commons
Stephen was originally a scientist, researching metal contaminated soil and water at the Camborne School of Mines, before finding a position in the House of Commons Library as an environment specialist. He spent six years providing Members of Parliament with information on subjects as diverse as engineering, climate change and animal experiments before moving to become the...Read More
Mark Rusling - Head of Education and Campagins, UN Association of the UK
Mark is the Campaigns & Education Officer at UNA-UK with responsibility for membership support, UNYSA development, and the Association's Model UN and educational work. Originally from York, Mark has taught primary school children in India and international secondary school students in Cambridge, where he used Model UNs as a key strategy for teaching. He is active in the Fabian...Read More
Jan Marshall - Head of Constitution and Parliamentary Secretary
Constitution and Parliamentary Secretariat Directorate The Scottish Government Jan Marshall is a lawyer who worked in private practice before joining the civil service in 1991. She has occupied a range of posts within Solicitors Office most recently providing legal services to criminal justice, police and health departments. She is currently head of Constitutional and...Read More
John Lehal - Managing Director, Insight PA
With a decade of experience in the public affairs industry, John has advised a number of leading companies and organisations on their public affairs and communications strategies. His clients have included global companies in financial services, pharmaceuticals and information technology. He has advised many health charities and continues to offer pro-bono advice to...Read More
Dan Fox - Communications and PR Specialist
A former assistant to senior Labour Party figures, Dan has since worked in lobbying, as a consultant, in-house practitioner and freelancer. His campaigning and policy development experience covers projects with government departments, blue-chip corporations and NGOs in all sectors and across arenas in Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Dan is currently an...Read More
Steve Priestly - Clerk, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Born 1956; state schools; 1974-77 Sussex University, BA(Hons) in International Relations; 1977-78 community service volunteer, St Mungo Community Trust; 1978-79 residential social worker, Middlesex Probation Service; 1979-84 an Assistant Clerk in the House of Commons (1979-81 Journal Office; 1981-83 Agriculture Committee; 1983-84 Treasury and Civil Service Committee); 1984-91...Read More
Cllr Melvyn Howell
A retired City banker and credit specialist, Melvyn was elected to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in 1990 and since that time has held senior Councillor roles in most of its functions, becoming Leader of the Council in the mid 1990s. Following later stints as Deputy Mayor and Mayor, he was looking forward to retiring to the backbenchers but was "recalled" to the Leadership in...Read More
Paul Evans - Clerk, House of Commons
Paul Evans has been a Clerk in the House of Commons since 1981. He has worked for the Energy, Health, Defence and Human Rights Committees as well as heading up the Committee Office "ScrutinyUnit". He has also worked on the procedural, chamber-related side of the Clerk's Department, including the Public Bill Office which deals with legislative committees. He is currently a...Read More
Roger Culcheth - Federation of Small Businesses
Roger has been a member of the Federation of Small Businesses for over ten years. He is a member of the FSB's national policy team and has been Chair of the Local Government Policy Unit since 2003. He serves on the FSB's local branch and regional committees, and the West Midlands area policy unit (APU). The twelve APUs of the FSB shadow the workings of the English Regions,...Read More
Peter Tatchell - Human Rights Campaign
Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights, democracy and global justice since 1967. He is a member of the queer human rights group OutRage!, and the left-wing of the Green Party. Peter is the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford East, and the Green Party's spokesperson on human rights. His key political inspirations are Mahatma Gandhi, Sylvia...Read More
Ellie Levenson - Communications Specialist
Ellie studied English Literature at Manchester University from 1996-99 and took a Postgraduate Diploma in Periodical Journalism at City University from 2000-01. Her first job in journalism was as a reporter at The Lawyer. She left this role when she won the Netjetter competition in the Guardian and was given a round the world trip and weekly column for four months. On...Read More
Mike Dixon - Special Advisor to Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
Mike Dixon is Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where he works on policy and political issues.Mike previously worked for the think tank ippr (Institute for Public Policy Research), where he published widely on youth policy, labour markets, political economy, demographics, crime, and social and economic trends, working closely...Read More
Rob Smith - Former Director General, Department of Communities and Local Government
Former Director General, Department for Communities and Local Government Rob was a career civil servant from 1974 until the end of 2005. He was first assigned to the Northern Ireland Office ( 1974-81 ) where he held a number of posts in Belfast and London including being principal private secretary to a Minster with responsibilities for education and the environment, and...Read More
Dr. Jagdish Sharma - Chairman, Hindu Council
Jagdish Sharma was born in India. He was educated in Delhi where he obtained a B.A. and two M.A.s and taught in schools and colleges. He came to England in 1964 and while teaching in inner city secondary schools obtained P.G.C.E., an Academic Diploma in Education, M.Phil. and Ph.D. from University of London Institute of Education. As an academic, Jagdish spent rest of...Read More
Enver Solomon - Deputy Director, Centre for Criminal and Justice Studies, Kings College London
Enver Solomon is deputy director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, an independent charity affiliated to the Law School at King's College, London, that informs and educates about all aspects of crime and criminal justice in the UK. The Centre has produced a number of influential reports that have had a direct impact on policy making and public thinking on criminal...Read More
Andrew Mackersie - Clerk, House of Lords
Andrew joined the Parliament Office as a clerk in 1997 and is currently Clerk of Delegated Legislation. He has served a number of Select Committees (notably establishing the Constitution Committee) and has worked in the Public Bill Office, Judicial Office and Registry of Lords' Interests. He is Secretary to the Association of Lord-Lieutenants. He is a contributor to various...Read More
Marie Navarro - Lecturer, Cardiff Law School
Marie Navarro studied law at the University of Jules Vernes Picardie (France) 1994-1998 and for her Master at Cardiff Law School in 1997-8. She is a Research Associate at Cardiff Law School and the Principal Researcher to the Law School website Wales Legislation Online which sets out the powers of the National Assembly for Wales since July 1999. She is also a French...Read More
Baroness Sally Hamwee - Former Chair, London Assembly
Sally was appointed a Life Peer in 1991 and is now Leader of the Liberal Democrat team shadowing the Department of Communities and Local Government in the House of Lords. She is a member of the Council of Management (and past-chair) of Refuge and a Member of the Governing Council of the Family Policy Studies Centre. In addition she is president of the Town and Country Planning...Read More
Kay Allen - Commissioner, Equality and Human Rights Commission
On 5 December 2006, Kay Allen was announced as a commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Recognised as one of the leading diversity specialists in the UK, Kay is MCIPD qualified with over 16 years' direct experience in diversity management. In 1992, she became the HR Director for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Working in this role, Kay became...Read More
Robert Grant - Private Secretary to Phil Woolas MP, Minister for the Environment
Robert has been Private Secretary to Phil Woolas MP, Minister for the Environment, since June 2007. Prior to that, he held policy adviser jobs on regeneration at H.M. Treasury and the (former) Office for the Deputy Prime Minister, and on sustainable development in Government at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He was educated at the University of York and...Read More
David Allan - Strategic Consultant
An experienced change and internal communications practitioner, David has over 20 years experience in managing organisational changes across commercial and public sectors, Blue Chip and small organisations, and a large variety of industry sectors. Prior to joining COI Strategic Consultancy in 2005, David ran his own change management consultancy business focusing on...Read More
Darren Johnson AM - Deputy Chair, London Assembly
Darren was elected to the London Assembly in May 2000. He was also the first Green member on Lewisham Council and is now leader of the Council's six-strong Green Group. As chair of the Assembly's Environment Committee, Darren has led investigations into a range of topics including: the government's proposal for Heathrow expansion, plastic bags, loss of streets trees and front...Read More
John Henderson - Scotland Office
John Henderson, Deputy Director of the Scotland Office since November 2007. Prior to that held a variety of posts in the Scottish Executive and former Scottish Office. These included responsibility for International Affairs, Finance, the Private Finance Initiative and funding of Further Education Colleges...Read More
Elizabeth Watson LL.B, NP - Head of Committee Office of the Scottish Parliament
Head of Committee Office of the Scottish Parliament. A graduate of Edinburgh University in law; previously a solicitor in private practice specialising in civil court business. In 1982 joined the staff of the Law Society of Scotland as a Deputy Secretary and in 1988 moved to the Scottish Legal Aid Board initially as Secretary to the Board and latterly as Director of Legal...Read More
Nick Johnson - Director of Policy
Nick is a leading commentator on issues of integration, cohesion and equality. In November 2007, he joined the Institute of Community Cohesion as Director of Policy. He specialises in strategic policy development and analysis. Between 2004-7, he was the Director of Policy and Public Sector for the Commission for Racial Equality where he led the development of the CRE's...Read More
Nicky Gavron - Former Deputy Mayor of London
Nicky Gavron has been at the forefront of developing land-use, transport and environmental policies for London for over two decades. She was elected as a Labour councillor in 1986 and as a London Assembly member from 2000 onwards. Throughout the 90s, she was the leader of the London Planning Advisory Committee (LPAC) where she commissioned research and formulated policies...Read More
David McNulty - Leader and Cabinet Office Manager, Haringe
David McNulty is currently the Leader and Cabinet Office Manager in Haringey. David works in supporting the Leader Councillor George Meehan in his role as the Leader of the Council. A key aspect of this is ensuring a positive relationship between Haringey and the GLA. Before this David worked for Transport for London. He worked on major projects in communications specifically...Read More
Tony Travers - Journalist & Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics
Tony Travers is director of the Greater London Group, a research centre at the London School of Economics. He is currently an advisor to the House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee. From 1992 to 1997, he was a member of the Audit Commission. He was a member of the Urban Task Force Working Group on Finance. He has published a number of books on cities and...Read More
Baroness Thomas of Walliswood
Born in 1935, educated at a girls' boarding school and Oxford University and married in 1958, I spent much of the next 25 years as a "diplomatic wife" in Moscow, Lisbon, Peru, Washington and Havana. During time spent in the UK I helped establish KACAN (now the Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise - HACAN), joined the Liberal Party, served on Party Council and...Read More
Janet Hughes - Head of Scrutiny and Investigations
Janet Hughes has been working for the London Assembly since 2001, and was appointed as its Head of Scrutiny in 2006. Prior to that she spent four years as a House of Commons Clerk where she worked to the International Development Select Committee and then the UK Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly...Read More
Susan Deacon - Former Minister for Health and Community Care
Susan Deacon is Professor of Social Change with Queen Margaret University and is also a consultant and adviser to a number of organisations in the public, private and third sectors. With a background in strategic change, organisational development and public policy making, she is a regular speaker and commentator on a wide range of subjects including leadership, governance,...Read More
Simon Courage
Simon is a highly experienced facilitator and consultant. He specialises in public services. He works with a wide range of clients, including central government departments and agencies, local authorities, NHS and police bodies and voluntary and community organisations. He has considerable experience of: working with top teams and partnerships; the development of strategy...Read More
Paul Gray - Director of Change and Corporate Services
Paul Gray is the Scottish Government's Director of Change and Corporate Services, with responsibility for senior staff development and deployment; human resources; information systems and services; accommodation and estates services; corporate learning; employee engagement; and the Scottish Government's business improvement and change programmes Previously, he was Director...Read More
Prof James Mitchell - Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde
James Mitchell has been Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde since 2000, having previously been Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. His main research interests are in territorial politics, looking in particular at the politics of nationalism and regionalism, the territorial impact of public policy and multi-level government and devolution. He...Read More
Duncan Hamilton - Former MSP and Special Advisor to Alex Salmond
Duncan was a Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands from 1999-2003, becoming the youngest member of the Scottish Parliament in the process. Having decided not to stand for re-election in 2003 in order to pursue a career in law, Duncan returned to politics in May 2007 by becoming a part-time political advisor to First Minister Alex...Read More
David Hughes - Head of Policing Strategy Branch, Northern Ireland Office
David joined the Home Civil Service in 2000 after completing his doctoral thesis, and joined the NIO in order to follow his career in Northern Ireland. After a posting in London (in the Elections Unit) he moved to Belfast where he worked as Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary, then in a number of different posts in the Political, Criminal Justice and Policing...Read More
Professor Richard Wyn Jones - Centre for International Politics Aberystwyth
Professor Richard Wyn Jones is Director of the department's Institute of Welsh Politics . He has published widely on many aspects of Welsh politics and post-devolution British politics. His latest book is the first of a two volume study of the ideas of the Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. He has also acted as Director or Co-director of 5 social attitudes surveys...Read More
Jonathan Douglas - Director of the National Literacy Trust
Jonathan Douglas was appointed director of the National Literacy Trust in January 2007. Previously Jonathan was head of policy development at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, where he also worked as head of learning and access. Prior to that, he was professional adviser for youth and school libraries at the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professional...Read More
Paul Clark MP - MP for Gillingham
Paul Clark was elected as Member of Parliament for Gillingham in May 1997. Since June 2007 he has been Private Parliamentary Secretary to Ed Balls, Secretary of State at the DCSF and from 2005 to 2007 he was Parliamentary Private secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. He held the position of Assistant Government Whip from June 2003 with responsibility for the...Read More
Paul Holmes
Paul Holmes was elected chairman of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party in 2005 and is Shadow Minister for Housing. The first in his family to go to university, he got a history degree from the University of York in 1978 and then went to the University of Sheffield to do a post-graduate Certificate in Education. On qualification as a History Teacher in 1979, he taught...Read More
Richard Davidson - Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Cancer Research UK
Richard Davidson has been Cancer Research UK's Director of Policy and Public Affairs since November 2004. Cancer Research UK is the UK's biggest charity and the largest independent cancer research organisation in the world. Richard oversees the organisation's policy formulation, external affairs, public campaigning and tobacco control work. He joined the Cancer Research...Read More
Roseanna Cunningham MSP - (SNP, Perth)
Roseanna has represented Perth since winning the seat in a Westminster by-election in 1995, being a dual mandate MP/MSP until 2001. She worked as a solicitor until she was called as an Advocate in December 1990, and is still a member of the Faculty of Advocates. In the Scottish Parliament, Roseanna has been Convener of the Justice Committee and held the Justice portfolio for...Read More
Jonathan Tillson - Head of Sustainable Development Unit, DEFRA
Jonathan Tillson has worked for most of his career in what is now Defra, dealing mainly with environmental protection. Before taking up his present post in June 2006 he spent four years at the Government Office for London. SDU is responsible for:...Read More
Richard Douglas - Environmental Audit Committee
Richard Douglas works for the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee as a committee specialist. Previously he worked for three years as an analyst at the National Audit Office. At the Commons he has worked on inquiries into the Climate Change Bill, emissions trading, green taxes, and Government policy on new homes...Read More
Rt. Hon Patricia Hewitt MP - Former Secretary of State for Health
Rt. Hon Patricia Hewitt MP has been the Labour MP for Leicester West since 1997. She served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999, and then as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2005. After the 2005 General Election, Patricia was appointed by Tony Blair as Secretary of State for Health, a position she held until she stepped down in June...Read More
Brendan Donnelly - Federal Trust
Brendan Donnelly has been Director of the Federal Trust since January 2003. He is a former Member of the European Parliament (1994 to 1999). He was educated at Oxford, where he obtained a double first in classics, and later worked in the Foreign Office, the European Parliament and the European Commission. As Director of the Federal Trust, he has written, lectured and broadcast...Read More
Alan Markey - Citizens Advice
Alan Markey has been Head of the Welfare Benefits Team at Citizens Advice Specialist Support since September 2003. His team provides second-tier consultancy support to CAB in England & Wales along with the development and delivery of a national training programme. Alan is also editor of "Adviser", a subscription-based magazine offering in-depth coverage of key issues in...Read More
Julie Garbutt - Chief Executive, NHS Norfolk
Julie has more than 16 years' experience in Board level positions including the last six years as Chief Executive of Southend PCT and was appointed CEO of South East Essex PCT in October 2006. She was born and raised in Hartlepool and received an MA in Geography from St Andrew's University in 1982. She joined the NHS National Administrative Training Scheme in Scotland prior...Read More
Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope
Archy Kirkwood is the Head of External Relations in the Office of the Liberal Democrat Leader, Rt. Hon Nick Clegg MP. Archy was Liberal Democrat MP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire for 22 years, standing down at the May 2005 General Election...Read More
Baroness Flather of Windsor
Lady Flather has been a life peer for the Conservative party since the 11 June 1990 as Baroness Flather, of Windsor and Maidenhead in the Royal County of Berkshire. She was the first Asian woman to receive a peerage. Baroness Flather attended University College London and is married to Gary Denis Flather. She has served as Deputy Mayor and as Mayor for the Royal Borough of...Read More
The Lord Davies of Coity CBE
Born in 1935, Lord Davies is a Labour Co-operative peer in the House of Lords and a former trade union leader. Lord Davies left school at 15 and worked as an electrician, serving in the Royal Air Force from 1956-1958. In 1969 he became a full time trade union official with USDAW and rose through the ranks, becoming General Secretary of the union in 1986. He retired in 1997...Read More
Adam Boulton - Chief Political Correspondent
Adam Boulton (born 15 February 1959 in Reading, Berkshire) is Political Editor of Sky News, a post he has held since being asked to establish the politics team for the launch of the channel in 1989. Prior to joining Sky News, Boulton worked as a journalist in the parliamentary "lobby" and was Political Editor for TV-am. Boulton regularly presents Sunday Live with Adam...Read More
Mick Hillyard - Clerk, House of Commons
Mick Hillyard joined the House of Commons in 1988. He has had various jobs across the House. He has worked as an economist on the Treasury Select Committee and in the Library of the House of Commons, a Clerk Adviser to the European Scrutiny Committee and a Clerk on the Work and Pensions Committee...Read More
John Stewart - Professor of Health History
John Stewart is Professor of Health History at Glasgow Caledonian University and Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Health Care, run jointly by Glasgow Caledonian and the University of Strathclyde. He was previously at Oxford Brookes University where he was Professor of the History of Medicine and Social Policy. His research interests include the...Read More
Pauline Conroy - Director, Rahaleen Research
Pauline Conroy is a social science graduate of University College Dublin and the London School of Economics. She completed her Doctoral studies at UCD with a research on women's employment in multinational corporations in Ireland. She has been awarded Research Fellowships with the Council of Europe and the European University Institute. She worked at the European Commission...Read More
Christian Yves Krappitz - Political Officer
Born in Cologne, Germany, Christian read European Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2004. He continued university studies with a Masters in European Studies at the Centre for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn, from where he graduated in 2005. Following a brief time in the press office of the...Read More
Simon Patrick - Clerk, House of Commons
Simon Patrick was appointed Clerk of Delegated Legislation in the Clerk's Department, House of Commons, in October 2006. This post involves supervising the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Joint and Select Committees on Statutory Instruments, the Regulatory Reform Committee and the European Scrutiny Committee. In addition Simon is in charge of training in the Clerk's...Read More
Simon Blackburn - Clerk, EU Select Committee
Simon is Clerk to the House of Lords EU Select Committee's Economic and Financial Affairs and International Trade Sub-Committee. The Sub Committee has recently completed reports on Financial Management in the EU, the Own Resources system, and VAT Fraud. Prior to joining the House of Lords in 2006, Simon was a graduate analyst at the Bank of England...Read More
Michael Cross - Journalist
Michael Cross began his career as a local newspaper reporter in England in 1975. He then spent five years covering the Middle East before specialising in science, technology and international development as an editor at New Scientist magazine. In that role, he was the first British journalist to reach the famine in northern Ethiopia in 1983. In 1986, he was part of the...Read More
Huw Yardley - House of Commons - Clerk
Huw Yardley has been a Clerk at the House of Commons for 10 years. Since October 2003 he has worked in the Table Office, which along with parliamentary questions is also responsible for the preparation of the Order Paper, Early Day Motions, and general procedural advice to Members of Parliament. Previously Huw has done a variety of other jobs in the Clerk's Department...Read More
Adrian Murgatroyd - Yorkshire Forward
As Head of Performance for Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency for Yorkshire and Humber, Adrian's responsibilities include supporting the Executive Director of Finance in driving performance. He is also responsible for the production of the Corporate Plan and Business Plan, as well as the Performance Management Framework (appraisal process), Contract Management...Read More
Professor Derek Birrell - Social Adminstration & Policy
Derek Birrell is Professor of Social Administration at the University of Ulster and was until recently Head of School of Policy Studies. He is also a member of Social and Policy Research Institute at the University. He has mainly carried out research in the areas of: social policy in Northern Ireland, including social care, housing and the voluntary sector; devolution in the...Read More
Stephen Warke - Political Assistant to George Savage MLA
Stephen Warke is a Political Advisor to Ulster Unionist MLA for Upper Bann George Savage. He is 22 and lives in Belfast. He holds an Honour's Degree in Politics from the University of Ulster and has been a member of the Ulster Unionist Party since 2004. Having studied politics at School and University whilst also being highly active in the inner workings of a political party...Read More
Dr Anne Corbett - Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics
Anne Corbett is a Visiting Fellow in the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, with research interests in European policy-making, in particular in higher education, and in public management reform. Before that she was a Visiting Fellow is LSE's Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, following on a period as a doctoral student...Read More
Andy Stowe - Senior European Policy Advisor, West Midlands European Network
Andy Stowe current role is as Senior European Policy Advisor for the EU Funded 'West Midlands European Network' (WMEN) where he provides technical assistance and policy advice to Third Sector organisations and public sector bodies with regard to the European Structural Funds, and the EU's Transnational programmes.. In the last 24 months he has developed and delivered over 60...Read More
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