Richard Allan
Roshana Arasaratnam*
Laurence Bard
Dianne Bevan*
Edward Bickham*
Rob Clements
Emma-Jane Cross*
Hilton Dawson
Mark D'Arcy
Paul Evans
Professor Ivor Gaber
Oonagh Gay
Gavin Grant
Andy Hamflett
Professor Robert Hazell CBE
Andrew Lansley CBE MP (Vice Chair)
Amelia Knott
Peter Knowles*
Sheena McDonald*
Joyce McMillan
Dr. Floyd Millen
Austin Mitchell MP
Professor the Lord Norton of Louth
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE (Vice Chair)
Peter Riddell (Chair)*
Gerald Shamash*
Matthew Seward
John Sharkey (Honorary Treasurer)*
Bill Thomson
Graeme Trayner*
Lord
Tyler of
Linkinhorne CBE (Vice Chair)
* Denotes members of the Executive Committee (Board of
Trustees).
Richard Allan
Richard Allan is currently Facebook's European Director of Public Policy. He was formerly
Government Affairs Director for Cisco in Europe, which he joined in
2005. He is responsible for a wide range of policy and regulatory
issues in the UK and Ireland as well as leading Cisco's European
Government Affairs team.
Previously, Richard was an academic visitor at the Oxford Internet
Institute and between 1997 and 2005 was the Liberal Democrat Member of
Parliament for Sheffield Hallam. During this time Richard specialised
in information technology issues. He was a leading spokesman on
legislation including the Data Protection Act, Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act and Communications Act. He chaired the House
of Commons Information Select Committee from 1997 to 2001 and he was a
member of several other select committees between 2003 and 2005. Prior
to entering Parliament, Richard had worked as an information technology
professional designing and implementing information systems within the
National Health Service. This followed several positions working as a
field archaeologist in the UK, France, the Netherlands and Ecuador. He
has a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology and an MSc in Information
Technology.
Richard has been a member of the Hansard Society council since 2005.
Roshana Arasaratnam - Assistant Honorary Treasurer
Roshana has worked within the UK and international public sector for over 10 years. She is currently Head of Finance at Hackney Council, responsible for budget setting and budget monitoring and procurement. Her previous public sector roles have been financial planning and performance at the Treasury Solicitor's Department; delivering customer services strategy at Westminster Council; and Head of Quality, Performance and Research at the London Borough of Lambeth. Before returning to the public sector she worked at Pricewaterhouse Coopers working across local government and central government, both as an auditor and as an economist. She has been a teaching fellow for financial management and budget reform, and a research assistant at the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She started her career as an economist at HM Treasury.
Laurence Bard
Laurence Bard qualified as both a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser and has worked in the tax profession for many years, including as a Partner with one the "Big Four" accountancy firms for over 15 years. In this capacity Laurence advised many groups of public and private, UK and international companies and their owners on their tax affairs. Following four years as an independent, Laurance joined Shaws in 2005 to head its corporate tax practice - a role he continues to develop within BTG Tax following the acquisition of Shaws by Begbies Traynor group in January 2008. Laurence also represent taxpayers on the joint HMRC Consultative Committee.
Dianne Bevan
Dianne Bevan has been Chief Operating
Officer for the National Assembly for Wales since 2007 and is
responsible for strategic planning and risk management, finance, Human
Resources, and external communications. She is currently a member of
the executive committee of the Wales Public Law and Human Rights
Association, a member of both the Study of Parliament Group and the
Society of Clerks at the Table, and an honorary member of Solicitors in
Local Government. She has significant expertise in public law and the
good governance of public sector bodies.
Dianne was a Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly for Wales from
2003 to 2007 and previously was a Corporate Director and Monitoring
Officer with Cardiff Council. She has worked as a lawyer and senior
manager from 1981 for a number of councils including Surrey, West
Sussex, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan County. She was also Trustee
and Chair of the Local Government Legal Trust Fund until 2002 and
co-founder and branch chair of the Law Society Local Government Group
South and Mid Wales Branch.
Dianne has been a member of the Hansard Society council since 2005.
Edward Bickham
Edward
Bickham was until recently Executive Vice President, External Affairs for
global mining group, Anglo American plc, a post he had held since 2000. This
involved responsibility for communication; public policy, government relations
and political risk; social development in mining communities; and corporate
ethics, including anti-corruption and human rights.
Edward Bickham was Managing Director, Public and Corporate Affairs (and later Deputy
Chairman and Director of Strategy), Hill and Knowlton UK from 1993
until 2000. Amongst the campaigns that he managed on behalf of clients were
programmes to secure the privatisation of Nuclear Electric as British Energy,
to reform Channel 4’s funding mechanism, to secure the allocation of the Channel
5 franchise and to preserve the status of historic urban markets. Between
January 1991 and July 1993 he served as Special Adviser to the Foreign
Secretary (Rt Hon Douglas Hurd) during the first Gulf War, the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the start of the transition to democracy in South Africa
and the negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty.
Between 1988 and the end of 1990, Edward was Corporate Communications Director
for British Satellite Broadcasting, the United Kingdom’s official satellite
broadcasting operator, which subsequently merged to become 50% of British Sky
Broadcasting. This role followed a two and a half year period as Special
Adviser to the Home Secretary (Rt Hon Douglas Hurd), where he was closely
involved in criminal justice policy, inner city regeneration, race relations
and immigration, broadcasting and the attempted reform of shop opening hours.
Between 1983 and 1985 he served Jim Prior and, subsequently, Douglas Hurd, in
their roles as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Edward joined the Hansard Society Council in 2010.
Rob Clements
Rob
Clements is currently Director of Research at the House of Commons
Library. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the House of
Commons Library's research service, ensuring effective coordination
within the Library and with other departments of the House, as well
representing the library in its relations with overseas parliaments. He
is a member of the Executive Committee for the European Centre for
Parliamentary Research and Documentation and a fellow of the Royal
Statistical Society, whose council he served on between 1997 and 2002
and was their Vice President from 1998 to 1999.
From 2000 to 2005, Rob chaired the House of Commons Group on
Information for the Public, an interdepartmental group of officials
responsible for developing the House's strategic approach to issues of
public information and access. He became the Library's Director of
Parliamentary and Reference Services in 1997 after having worked in the
House of Commons Library since 1976, first as a statistician and then
as Head of Statistics. He has written numerous research papers for the
House of Commons over the course of his career, as well as writing a
monthly column for the Royal Statistical Society News, and contributing to books about parliamentary process, economics and the history of the House of Commons.
Rob has been a member of the Hansard Society council since 2002.
Emma-Jane Cross
Currently Charity Principal of the Year (Charity Awards 2009), Emma-Jane is founder and Chief Executive of the multi award winning British charity Beatbullying. Ten years ago Emma-Jane conceived of, researched and designed a unique bullying prevention and behaviour change model known as Beatbullying. The model is now widely, applied across the UK by schools, Local Authorities and youth agencies. Named NOTW “Children’s Champion 2009” for her work and commitment to children’s rights, Emma-Jane currently sits on the Demos Character Enquiry, is an NCVO 2020 Commissioner and resident blogger for the Third Sector Magazine.
Hilton Dawson
Hilton Dawson is Chief Executive of
Shaftesbury Young People, a charity that provides disadvantaged
children and young people with residential care, educational support
and adventure activities, a role he has been in since 2005. He is Chair
of the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, a professional
adviser to A National Voice, the Patron of AFRUCA (Africans Unite
Against Child Abuse) and an honorary fellow of Unicef.
Hilton was elected as MP for Lancaster & Wyre in 1997 and he
stepped down in 2005 to continue his work promoting children's issues.
During his time in Parliament, Hilton founded the All Party Group for
Children in Care and chaired groups on Sudan and Angola visiting both
countries and working with diaspora groups. He was voted Parliamentary
Children's Champion in 2004 for consistently engaging young people in
the parliamentary process as well as participating in a large number of
bills and inquiries relating to children. Previously, he served as a
Lancaster city councillor for 10 years including a period as deputy
leader. Before this he was a social worker in child care, youth justice
and a manager of residential care, fostering and adoption, day care and
family centres and services for children with disabilities. He has a
degree in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Warwick, a
social work qualification from the University of Lancaster and a
Diploma in Management Studies from the University of Central
Lancashire. He is also a registered social worker with the General
Social Care Council.
Hilton has been a member of the Hansard Society council since 2005.
Mark D'Arcy
Mark D’Arcy is currently a Radio 4 journalist, working on Today in Parliament and Yesterday in Parliament. He worked as a producer and reporter on The Westminster Hour for Radio 4 before moving to his present position.
Mark has written for the Leicester Mercury and spent a number of years as a local government correspondent for the BBC. He has also authored two books: Nightmare: the race to become London’s Mayor, and Abuse of Trust, Frank Beck and the Leicestershire child abuse. In his early career Mark worked on local London papers and the now retired current affairs magazine Weekend World.
Mark joined the Hansard Society council in 2008.
Paul Evans
Paul Evans is the Principal
Clerk for Select Committees in House of Commons. He is also Vice-Chair
of the Study of Parliament Group, which he has been a member of since
1986, and a regular member of steering groups for research projects
within the Constitution Unit, Kings College London.
He has been a Clerk in the House of Commons since
1981 and previous to this was a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund's
House in the University of Cambridge. Paul is an expert in
parliamentary procedure and has contributed to a number of publications
about Parliament including; The Future of Parliament: Issues for a new century and Dod's Handbook of House of Commons Procedure (6th Edition) and was part of the Project Advisory Group for the Hansard Society's Law in the Making report.
Paul has been a Hansard Society council member since 2001.
Professor Ivor Gaber
Ivor Gaber is currently Research Professor in Media and Politics at Bedfordshire University, having previously taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London and London School of Economics. He has been called as an expert witness for the House of Commons Public Administration and the House of Commons Modernisation Select Committees.
Ivor has previously worked as a reporter, presenter and producer for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN and has also written for The Guardian, The New Statesmen and The Times Higher Education Supplement. He has published a number of journal articles and books including: Culture Wars: The Media and the British Left, and Mis/informing the public: the problem of Political Communications in a mass media democracy. He is an Editorial Board Member of British Journalism Review and a member of the UK National Council of UNESCO.
Ivor joined the Hansard Society council in 2008.
Oonagh Gay
Oonagh Gay is Head of the Parliament and
Constitution Centre (PCC) in the House of Commons Library. She has
worked in the library since 1983 as a researcher specialising in
several aspects of parliamentary reform, parliamentary standards,
electoral law, public administration and devolution, before becoming
Head of the PCC in 2004. Oonagh has published a variety of research
during her time at the House of Commons Library including chapters in Has Devolution Made a Difference?: The State of the Nations 2004 (Edited by Alan Trench) and Managing Parliaments in the 21st Century European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) Yearbook 2001 (edited by Peter Falconer, Colin Smith, C William and R Webster). She co-edited her most recent publication, Conduct Unbecoming: The Regulation of Parliamentary Behaviour,
with Patricia Leopold. She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow
at the Constitution Unit, University College London, a member of the
Study of Parliament Group and the Association of Electoral
Administrators.
Oonagh was seconded to the Constitution Unit between 2002 and 2003
where she published a wide range of research papers including; The Regulation of Parliamentary Standards: A Comparative Perspective, Parliamentary Audit: The Audit Committee in Comparative Perspective (with Barry Winetrobe) and Officers of Parliament: Proposals for Reform
(with Barry Winetrobe). Before joining the House of Commons Library,
she was Overseas Volunteers Director with Community Services Volunteers
and previous to this she studied History at Oxford University.
Oonagh has been a member of the Hansard Society council since 2001.
Gavin Grant
Gavin Grant is currently European Chairman for Public Affairs at Burson-Marsteller. He deals with multi-national companies, trade associations, international issue groups and All Party Parliamentary groups on issues ranging from media relations and crisis management to coalition building.
Previously Gavin worked for The Body Shop and is a former Director of Campaigns and Relations at the Royal Society. He has worked for the Liberal Democrat Party, standing for Parliament in 1983 and 1987. He was involved in the Liberal Democrat Leader’s national election tour in 1992 and 1997 and was instrumental as a member of the Liberal Democrats European Election Strategy team.
Gavin joined the Hansard Society council in 2008.
Andy Hamflett
Andy Hamflett has been working in the youth participation and empowerment field for a decade, both in the voluntary and statutory sectors. He was appointed the Chief Executive of the UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) in May 2005.
Before UKYP, Andy worked at Lambeth Youth Council, where he supported young people to establish education projects on teenage pregnancy, substance misuse and work with the police around stop and search. Before that, he worked as a journalist on sports, child care and business-to-business titles, then held a number of editorial and development roles with Children’s Express (now Headliners), the charity promoting learning through journalism.
Andy joined the Hansard Society council in 2008.
Professor Robert Hazell CBE
Professor Robert Hazell
is currently Professor of Government and the Constitution at University
College London and Director of the Constitution Unit within the School
of Public Policy. He founded the Constitution Unit in 1995 as an
independent think tank specialising in constitutional reform. The Unit
has published detailed reports on every aspect of the government's
constitutional reform programme, including devolution, Lords reform,
parliamentary reform, the Human Rights Act, freedom of information, and
electoral reform. Robert was Vice Chairman of the Hansard Society
Commission on the Scrutiny Role of Parliament in 2001.
Before joining University College London, he was Director of the
Nuffield Foundation, a grant giving charitable trust, between 1989 and
2005. Previous to this he worked at the Home Office as a civil servant
after starting his career as a barrister in 1973.
Robert has been a member of the Hansard Society council since 1997.
Amelia Knott
Amelia Knott is currently Corporate Responsibility Manager for Centrica plc, which she joined in 2007. She specialises in policy development, reporting and communications, with particular interests in climate change, energy security, ethics and skills. She is also responsible for managing Centrica’s website and social media strategy. Centrica is the parent company of British Gas, the UK’s largest energy retailer.
Prior to her role at Centrica, Amelia managed communications for the Industry and Parliament Trust, a Westminster-based charity that seeks to promote mutual understanding between Parliament and the worlds of business, industry and commerce. In her spare time, she co-founded a small citizenship charity to provide free teaching materials for schools. She has a degree in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Peter Knowles
Peter Knowles is the Controller of BBC Parliament and Editor of Today & Yesterday in Parliament and the Democracy Live web portal. He's had a long and varied BBC career including roles such as Editor, BBC World newsroom and Managing Editor Television News. He has lectured on broadcasting and parliament for organisations such as the Inter Parliamentary Union, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, European Broadcasting Union and UNESCO.
Peter was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He studied English at St. Catherine's College, Oxford; an MBA at the University of Bradford and is currently taking a part time Theology degree at the University of Chester.
Andrew Lansley CBE MP - Vice Chair
Andrew Lansley
has been MP for South Cambridgeshire since 1997 and is currently the
Secretary of State for Health. Between 1999 and 2001 he was
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Policy Renewal, as well as
Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. From 1998 to 1999 he was
Vice Chair of the Conservative Party. Andrew previously served as a
member of the health select committee and the trade and industry select
committee in the House of Commons. He is the Chair of the all party
parliamentary group on stroke.
Before entering Parliament as an MP, Andrew was Director of the
Conservative Research Department from 1990 to 1995 and Deputy
Director-General of the British Chambers of Commerce previous to this.
He was a civil servant from 1979 to 1987, including between 1984 to
1985 when has was Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Trade
and Industry; and from 1985 to 1987 he was Principal Private Secretary
to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He has published a number
of books and articles about Conservative Party policy over the last 20
years.
Andrew has served on the Hansard Society council since 2003 and became a Vice-Chair in 2007.
Sheena McDonald
Sheena Mc Donald currently presents Talking Politics on BBC Radio 4 and Teachers TV News, and works as a freelance current affairs and arts journalist.
She is an experienced journalist having presented a number of radio and TV programmes including; STV News, The World at One, Power and the People, The World This Week, On the Record, International Question Time and Channel 4 News. In 1995 she received the inaugural ‘Woman in Film and Television’ Award.
Sheena joined the Hansard Society council in 2008
Joyce McMillan
Joyce
McMillan currently writes a commentary column on political and social
issues for the Scotsman newspaper and she is also their chief theatre
critic. She broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio Four
and became a Visiting Professor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
in 2006.
Joyce has been a political and arts columnist,
theatre critic and broadcaster for 20 years, working for various
Scottish and London newspapers. She has also been involved in Scottish
and European campaigns for democracy and human rights and was a member
from 1998 to 1999 of the British government's Consultative Steering
Group on procedures for the new Scottish Parliament. She was convener
of the Scottish Civic Forum between 2003 and 2006 and received an
honorary degree of D.Litt. from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in
2000.
Joyce has served on the Hansard Society Council
since 2006, has been a member of the Hansard Society Scotland Working
Group since 2002 and became its Chair in 2005.
Dr. Floyd Millen
Dr. Floyd Millen is the founder and Director of the public
affairs think tank, yesMinister. He was the former Head of Policy and
Communications at the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI) and the
former Chief Executive of the social policy think tank ROTA.
Floyd has worked as a Contracts & FAM Manager for two Training and
Enterprise Councils and was Programme Director of 'Building Futures', a DWP and
Treasury funded third sector employment led initiative.
Floyd studied politics under the conservative Peer Professor
the Lord Norton of Louth and in November 2009 he completed a PhD in Political
Science and Criminology at Loughborough
University.
In addition to the Hansard Society, Floyd sits on the
Research Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Floyd is
mentored by the former Home Secretary Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP and is a former
council member of the Deaf Blind charity SENSE 2002-2006. Floyd is also a school
governor of St Michaels School in East Wickham
and he writes extensively on police authorities, Welfare reform and it's impact
on citizenship, representation and democracy.
Floyd has been a Hansard Society council member since 2003.
Austin Mitchell MP
Austin Mitchell has been MP for
Grimsby since 1977 and subsequently for Great Grimsby since 1983. He is
currently Chair of the Labour economic policy group, Vice Chair of the
Labour campaign for electoral reform and the Labour euro-safeguards
campaign, as well as a member of the public accounts committee in the
House of Commons. In the past he has been Personal Private Secretary to
the Minister of State for Prices and Consumer Protection, an Opposition
Whip and Opposition Spokesperson for Trade and Industry. He also sat on
the agriculture committee between 1997 and 2001 and the environment,
food and rural affairs committee from 2001 to 2005.
Before entering Parliament, Austin lectured at universities in New
Zealand as well as at Nuffield College, Oxford and has published
numerous books and articles about politics over the last 40 years. He
has also worked for the BBC, Sky and Yorkshire Television and is
Associate Editor of The House Magazine.
Austin has served on the Hansard Society council since 1994.
Professor the Lord Norton of Louth
Lord Norton is
Professor of Government at the University of Hull's Department of
Politics and International Studies and Director of Studies for the
Hansard Society Scholars programme. He was raised to the peerage in
1998 and sits on the Lords select committee of the European Union,
chairs the Conservative Academic Group and is part of the Executive
Committee of the Conservative History Group. He is Director of the
Centre of Legislative Studies, a trustee of the History of Parliament
Group and President of the Politics Association.
Lord Norton was Chair of the Lords select committee on the
constitution from 2001 to 2004 and the Head of the Department of
Politics and International Relations at the University of Hull from
2002 to 2007. He also chaired the Conservative Party's Commission to
Strengthen Parliament in 2000 and has been involved with numerous
political organisations such as the Study of Parliament Group, the
Political Studies Association and the Economic and Social Research
Council. Lord Norton has published an abundance of books, articles and
papers throughout his career and is an expert on British politics,
constitutional affairs, legislatures and the Conservative Party.
Lord Norton has been a member of the Hansard Society council since 1997 and became Director of Studies in 2002.
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE - Vice Chair
Lord
Puttnam is currently Chair of the draft communications bill committee
in the Houses of Parliament. He was raised to the peerage in 1997 and
is Deputy Chairman of Channel Four, President of UNICEF UK, Chairman of
Futurelab, an organisation using new technologies to support innovative
learning, and Profero, a digital marketing agency, alongside many other
organisations. He was Chancellor of the University of Sunderland from
1997 to 2007 and is now Chancellor of the Open University. Lord Puttnam
was awarded a CBE in 1982 and received a knighthood in 1995.
Before becoming a peer, Lord Puttnam worked as an independent film producer and his films include The Mission, The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, and The Memphis Belle.
He was Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Pictures from 1986
to 1988 and the first non-American to run a Hollywood studio. He
founded the National Teaching Awards in 1988 and served as the first
Chair of the General Teaching Council for England between 2000 and
2002. He was also Vice President and Chair of Trustees at BAFTA from
1994 to 2004, and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006. He has been a
visiting Professor at both the London School of Economics and Bristol
University and has published widely on the media, politics and the film
industry. He also chaired the Hansard Society's Commission on the Communication of Parliamentary Democracy in 2005.
Lord Puttnam has been a Hansard Society council member since 2007and he became a Vice-Chair in the same year.
Peter Riddell - Chair
Peter Riddell is a political commentator and author. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the
Institute for Government. Previously, he
worked for The Times between 1991 and 2010, becoming its Assistant Editor and
Chief Political Commentator. Prior to
his career with The Times he was US Editor and Washington Bureau Chief at The
Financial Times.
He writes mainly - but not exclusively - about British
politics, Parliament, political parties and key political figures. He is an Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex
College, Cambridge
and a Senior Fellow at the Political Studies Association. Peter regularly appears on radio programmes such as The Week in
Westminster and Talking Politics and has written a number of books
including: The Thatcher Decade; Hug Them Close: Blair, Clinton, Bush
and the ‘Special Relationship and The
Unfulfilled Prime Minister: Tony Blair's Quest for a Legacy. His book Hug Them Close won
the Channel Four Political Book of the Year award in 2004.
On July 6, 2010 Prime Minister David Cameron announced that Peter would be
one of three members of an inquiry into whether British intelligence officers
were complicit in the torture of, or use of extraordinary rendition flights on,
detainees – including some from Guantanamo
Bay.
Peter has been a Hansard Society council member since 1996 and was elected
Chair in 2007.
Matthew Seward
Matthew Seward is Director of Policy at the National Churches
Trust, a national charity which supports and promotes places of worship
of historic, architectural and community value.
He has previously held a number of roles within the Labour Party
including Director of Policy and Research, has served as a Special
Adviser to three different Cabinet ministers, including the Leader of
the House of Lords and the Home Secretary, and earlier worked for the
House Magazine’s Parliamentary Information Unit. He has a degree in
British Politics and Legislative Studies from Hull University, authored a
research paper on the Deputy Speakers of the House of Commons published
by its Centre for Legislative Studies, and is the co-founder and
Vice-Chair of the Labour History Group.
Gerald Shamash
John Sharkey - Honorary Treasurer
John Sharkey is the Deputy Prime Minister's Strategic Communications Advisor and was Chair of the Liberal Democrat's General Election Campaign.
John has held many high profile positions, in particular he was Chairman and co-founder of the advertising agency Bainsfair Sharkey Trott, Managing Director of Saatchi and Saatchi UK, with responsibility for running Margaret Thatcher's 1987 election advertising campaign and assisting the Turkish Government in their preparations for accession into the EU. He was also Deputy Chairman of Saatchi International, Chairman of BDDP Holdings Ltd, Chief Operating Officer at Blue Arrow Plc and Chairman of Highland Partners Europe.
John has been a member of the Hansard Society council since 2004 and became the Honorary Treasurer in 2007.
Bill Thomson
Bill Thomson joined the staff of the Scottish Parliament as Head of the Chamber Office before the first elections in 1999. He has subsequently had senior management responsibility for a range of parliamentary services including clerking in the chamber and committees, the official report, research and information, education and outreach, broadcasting, media relations, and security. He is currently employed in a strategic role as an Assistant Clerk / Chief Executive and leads on several major projects.
Bill studied languages, law and business administration in Edinburgh and Amsterdam and has held a number of professional and managerial roles in the public and private sectors, including as director of charitable companies limited by guarantee. He has been a member of the Hansard Society Scotland Working Group since 2007
Graeme Trayner
Graeme Trayner is a Partner at Brunswick Group, where he set up and leads the communications group’s opinion research practice, Brunswick Research.
Graeme has worked with major companies, governments and charities around the world, helping them turn research findings into compelling strategies and campaigns. He has conducted extensive research exploring attitudes towards issues and policy debates, including electoral and constitutional reform, the environment and sustainability, offshoring and foreign investment, national image and corporate responsibility.
His roots lie in political campaign research, having worked closely with Labour Party pollsters Deborah Mattinson and Philip Gould. After graduating from LSE, he began his career working for the Democrat pollster Stan Greenberg in Washington, DC.
Lord
Tyler of
Linkinhorne CBE - Vice Chair
Lord Tyler has been the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for
Constitutional Affairs in the House of Lords since 2006. He was raised
to the peerage in 2005 after serving in the House of Commons for 13
years. From 1992-2005 he was MP for North Cornwall and was Spokesperson
for: Agriculture, Tourism, Transport and Rural Affairs; Food; and
Constitutional Reform, as well as Chief Whip and Shadow Leader of the
House during this time. He also served as a member of the Select
Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons and the Joint
Committee on House of Lords Reform.With Robin Cook MP and Ken Clarke MP
he produced a draft Bill for House of Lords reform in 2005 on which
many of the current proposals are based.
He became a member of the Hansard Society Council in 2008
and is a Vice Chair.