Biographies

Sir Christopher Kelly KCB

Christopher Kelly is Chair of the NSPCC and of the Financial Ombudsman Service. He was previously a civil servant. Between 1970 and 1995 he worked in HM Treasury, latterly as Director of Monetary and Fiscal Policy and then Director of the Budget and Public Finances. Between 1995 and 1997 he was Head of Policy Group at the then Department of Social Security. From 1997 to 2000 he was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health. Since leaving the Civil Service he has chaired, or been a member of, a number of advisory and other groups in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
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Lloyd Clarke QPM

Lloyd Clarke is a Trustee of the Guinness Trust and a Member of the Guinness Partnership Board. He is also a Board member of the Guinness Northern Counties Housing Association and he chairs their Audit Committee. He was previously a police officer for thirty-one years with West Yorkshire Police retiring as the Deputy Chief Constable. Between 2000 and 2005, he was the Chief Executive and Chief Constable of the Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency. Since leaving the police service he has worked with different public bodies particularly looking at aspects of security and good governance.

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Oliver Heald MP

Oliver Heald was called to the Bar in 1977 and has practised as a barrister on the South Eastern Circuit. He is a specialist in employment law. He was elected as Member of Parliament for North East Hertfordshire at the General Election of April 1992. He has served as a Minister in the Department of Social Security and is a former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. He is currently a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee and of the Committee of Selection.
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Rt Hon Alun Michael JP MP

Alun Michael is a former journalist, youth worker, magistrate and councillor. Alun has represented Cardiff South & Penarth since 1987. He has served as Deputy Home Secretary, Secretary of State for Wales and Founding First Secretary (First Minister) of the National Assembly for Wales. He was later Rural Affairs Minister and then Minister of State for Industry and the Regions. Currently a member of the Justice Select Committee and the Welsh Affairs Committee.


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Sir Derek James Morris MA Dphil

Sir Derek Morris has been Provost of Oriel College, Oxford since 2004. Prior to that he was Chairman of the Competition Commission (formerly the Monopolies and Mergers Commission). From 1970 to 1997 he was Fellow in Economics at Oriel College. In 2004-05 he Chaired the Morris Review of the Actuarial Profession.
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Dr Elizabeth Vallance JP

Elizabeth Vallance was Head of the Department of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London where she is now an Honorary Fellow. She is a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School and chairs the Council of the Institute of Education, University of London. She is chairman of ICAN, the national children's communication charity and is a non-executive director of Charter European Trust plc and of The Medical Protection Society. She sits as a Presiding Magistrate on the Inner London Bench.
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Dr Brian Woods-Scawen DL CBE

Brian Woods-Scawen is a Chartered Accountant and was a partner in Pricewaterhouse Coopers from 1980 until 2003. He is currently a non executive Board member for a number of organisations in the private and public sectors. He holds public appointments as a non-executive Board member of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, the Government Office for the West Midlands, the Pensions Disablity and Carers Service and the Office for Legal Complaints.
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Dame Denise Platt DBE

Denise Platt is an Audit Commissioner and the Chair of the independent Advisory Panel for the Local Innovation Awards. From 2004 until 2009 she was the Chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection (now the Care Quality Commission). She has held a variety of posts both nationally and locally in local government and social care. She is involved with a number of voluntary organisations and is the chair of the National AIDS Trust (NAT). She is governor of the University of Bedfordshire and a member of the Independent Review Board of the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service.
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David Prince CBE

David Prince is the former chief executive of The Standards Board for England. He held senior positions at the Audit Commission, as managing director, strategy and resources and Chief Executive, District Audit. Previously his career was in local government, where posts included Chief Executive, Leicestershire County Council and director of finance and administration, Cambridgeshire County Council. He holds non-executive independent appointments as lay member of the General Social Care Council, member of Leicestershire Police Authority, audit committee of the Rural Payments Agency and the performance and best value committee of the Bar Standards Board.
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