Ms Lucy Anderson
Senior Policy Officer
Equality and Employment Rights Department
Trades Union Congress
landerson@tuc.org.uk
www.tuc.org.uk
Policy specialist on equality and employment rights issues for
the Trades Union Congress since 1997. Qualified solicitor.
Currently Senior Policy Officer in TUC Equal Rights Department.
Current and recent work includes responsibility for TUC initiatives
on 2003 equality legislation under EU framework directive and acting
as TUC representative on Government Age Advisory Group.
She is a member of the Management Board of Working Families, a
new charity promoting flexible working and family-friendly rights,
formed from the merger of Parents at Work and New Ways to Work.
Lucy is also a member of Industrial Law Society Executive Committee
and is Local Councillor for the London Borough of Camden.
Amanda Ariss
Head of Policy and Research
Equal Opportunites Commission
Amanda.Ariss@eoc.org.uk
www.eoc.org.uk
Amanda Ariss is Head of Policy and Research at the Equal
Opportunities Commission. Since joining the EOC in September
2000, she has lead programmes of work on equal pay, pensions, gender
equality in public services, work life balance and getting more
women into public and political life. Amanda leads the EOC's
work on the proposed new equality and human rights body and on
lobbying for consistent, modernised equality legislation.
Before she joined the EOC Amanda was an Associate Director of the
Audit Commission, responsible for work on police and local
government performance. She also worked in local government in
London for 11 years. Amanda is a member of the Advisory Group for NCVO’s Diversity
Project and of the New Opportunities Fund’s Equality Forum.
She also represents the EOC on the Equality and Diversity Forum.
Mr Mohammed Aziz
Chief Executive Officer
British Muslim Research Centre
ma212@brmrc.co.uk
Mohammed Aziz completed his LLB(Hons) and LLM at UCL, University
of London and was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of
Gay’s Inn in 1996. He has worked as a youth and community
worker, health advocacy officer, education social worker, secondary
school teacher, FE college lecturer, research assistant, local
government lawyer and policy/strategy/project development officer.
A former Joint Chair of Tower Hamlets Multi-Agency Action Against
Racist Incidents (THMAAARI) and Chief Executive of the Forum Against
Islamophobia & Racism (FAIR), he is presently Chief Executive of
the British Muslim Research Centre (BMRC), a Member of the
Management Committee of the UK Race Equality Network (UKREN) and
trustee of several voluntary sector organisations. He has been
actively involved with the Equality & Diversity Forum since its
inception. He specialises in and has advised various
Government departments and statutory agencies on religious
discrimination.
Dr Neil Bentley
Head of Employee Relations
CBI
www.cbi.org.uk
Neil is Head of Employee Relations at CBI with responsibility for
policy development in areas such as equality, trade union relations
and employee involvement. Neil came to CBI in November 2002
from his role as European employee relations consultant at EDS Ltd,
the global IT services company. There, Neil had responsibility
for establishing a European diversity strategy, managing relations
with the EDS European Works Council, information and consultation
processes, collective bargaining and advising on European employment
law. Prior to EDS, Neil worked at Industrial Relations
Services where he worked as a writer/researcher on European
employment law and industrial relations issues. Neil’s
doctorate focused on trade union attitudes to racial discrimination
at the workplace.
Frances Butler
British Institute of Human Rights
Ros Hardie Ejiohuo
London Borough London
Rosalind Hardie Ejiohuo is Head of Equalities in Croydon Council’s Executive Office. Her responsibilities include managing the team which leads the Council’s work on:
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mainstreaming equality and diversity across the council and via the Local Strategic Partnership;
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partnerships to address domestic violence, homophobic abuse and racial harassment;
the in-house translation and interpreting service; and
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funding the voluntary sector, community development and the Community Legal Services Partnership.
Before joining Croydon Council she was the Principal Equalities Policy Officer at the Association of London Government.
She is currently Chair of the London Centre for Personal Safety, a charity that provides self- defence training to vulnerable communities, including recently trafficked women who have escaped forced prostitution.
Ms Katie Ghose
Campaigns and Parliamentary Unit Manager
Age Concern England
ghosek@ace.org.uk
www.ageconcern.org.uk
Katie Ghose is the Campaigns and Parliamentary
Unit Manager for Age Concern England. She is responsible for the
strategic planning and direction of Age Concern England’s
campaigns and parliamentary activities. She is a barrister and
practised from 1 Pump Court chambers from 1997-99, specialising in
immigration law and human rights. Katie has extensive campaigns and
political expertise, having worked in the Commons for Greville
Janner (1992-94), for Citizens Advice as their Parliamentary Liaison
Officer (1994-95) and as Campaign Manager for the Child Accident
Prevention Trust (1999-2000). She has also worked as a freelance
parliamentary consultant and trainer, providing courses to City law
firms and NGOs on parliamentary procedures and lobbying techniques.
Publications include two compilations of ministerial statements on
asylum legislation and on the Human Rights Act (published by ILPA,
the Immigration Law Practitioners Association in 1999 and 2000).
Lorraine Gradwell
Director Breakthrough Uk Limited
Mr Patrick Grattan, MBE
Chief Executive
Third Age Employment Network (TAEN)
taen@helptheaged.org.uk
www.taen.org.uk
Patrick Grattan is Chief Executive of Third Age
Employment Network, an independent charity committed to better
opportunities for people to continue working, earning and learning
for as long as they want to do so. He has had a varied career including senior positions in the
Diplomatic Service and Civil Service and in the oil industry,
working in the UK, the US and France.
For the last 10 years he has been in the
voluntary sector, running the operations of the Prince’s Youth
Business Trust and, since 1996, engaged on the issues of age and
employment. He has built up TAEN as a leading centre of expertise and policy body and
as a network of organisations committed to better opportunities to
learn, work and earn. He was appointed MBE in 2001 for this work. Patrick Grattan was
a member of the Parole Board until 2003 and a former Board Member of
Notting Hill Housing Trust. He is also an active performing
musician.
Ms Tessa Harding
Senior Policy Advisor
Help the Aged
Tessa.harding@helptheaged.org.uk
www.helptheaged.org.uk
Tessa Harding is Senior Policy Adviser at Help
the Aged working on age equality and human rights.
She supports the network of Senior Citizens Forums across the
UK which enable older people to raise issues with policy makers
locally. Current positions include membership of the
board of the Centre for Policy on Ageing, of the European expert
group on age discrimination and of the Kings Fund Inquiry into
social care in London. She
was awarded an MBE in 2003. Previously,
she worked on the development of the National Service Framework for
Older People, and was a member of the Better Government for Older
People Board and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Older People’s
programme. She was a
Harkness Fellow in 1993/4, studying long term care in the USA. Earlier employers include the National Institute for Social
Work, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and three
local authorities.
Reverend John Kennedy
Co-ordinating Secretary
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
John.kennedy@ctbi.org.uk
www.ctbi.org.uk
Francesca Klug OBE
Professorial Research Fellow
Centre for the Study of Human Rights
F.M.KLUG@lse.ac.uk
www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/human-rights
Francesca Klug OBE is a Professorial Research
Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London
School of Economics and is Director of the Human Rights Futures
Project. She was formally a Senior Research Fellow at
King’s College Law School where she worked on developing the model
for incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK
law reflected in the Human Rights Act.
She was a member of the Governments Human Rights Task Force
and is a former Director of the Civil Liberties Trust.
She was awarded an OBE for services to human rights and civil
justice in the 2002 new year’s honours list.
Francesca is the author of Values for a
Godless Age, the story of the UK’s new bill of rights, published
by Penguin in October 2000. She
has also contributed to, or co-authored, numerous other publications
including, The Three Pillars of Liberty, political rights and
freedoms in the UK Routledge, 1996.
She writes regularly for legal and political journals and the
national press and is frequent broadcaster.
Michelynn Lafleche
Runnymede Trust
For over fifteen years, Michelynn has studied and worked on social justice issues relating to race and gender
— first in Canada, then Germany and, since 1996, in the United Kingdom. She obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa, her Masters degree at the University of Toronto and undertook her postgraduate studies jointly at Toronto and Karls Ruprecht University in Heidelberg (Germany). Her research focused on gender and racial discrimination in vocational education in Canada and Germany.
Michelynn worked as a research consultant on equalities and social justice for numerous organisations over a period of ten years, and was also a teacher of English as a Second Language and a university lecturer during that period. She joined the Runnymede Trust in 1997 and began
co-ordinating the UK Race and Europe Network, as well as managing Runnymede’s projects relating to European social policy, citizenship, and employment. She was appointed Director of Runnymede in February
2001.
Dr. Nick O’Brien
Director of Legal Services
Disability Rights Commission
nick.obrien@drc-gb.org
www.drc-gb.org
Nick O’Brien has been Director of Legal Services at the Disability Rights Commission since June 2000. His responsibilities in that role have included law enforcement, conciliation and the development of good practice on disability. From January 2004 he will also be responsible at director level for the Disability Rights Commission’s helpline, its casework service and its capacity-building work. In 1991 he was appointed Legal Adviser to the Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales, and subsequently became Deputy Ombudsman. Previously he taught classics and practised as a solicitor.
He is based at the Disability Rights Commission’s Manchester office.
Mr Colm O’Cinneide
Lecturer in Law
Facility of Laws
University College London
uctlcoc@ucl.ac.uk
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws
Colm O'Cinneide is Lecturer in Human Rights and
Equality Law at University College London, and has published
extensively in the field of anti-discrimination law. He is a
graduate of the National University of Ireland (Cork), was called to
the Irish Bar in 1997 and has also been Legal Officer to Lord Lester
of Herne Hill QC 1999-2001. Recent publications include Single
Equality Bodies: Lessons from Aboard (EOC Research Paper Series, 2002) and Our House? Race
and Representation in British Politics (Institute for Public
Policy Research, 2002).
Brian Pearce
Interfaith Network
Dr. Katherine Rake
Director
The Fawcett Society
Katherine@fawcettsociety.org.uk
info@fawcettsociety.org.uk
Dr. Katherine Rake is Director of the Fawcett
Society, the UK’s leading campaigning organisation working for
equality between women and men. She is a specialist in gender and
social policy, with a particular interest in gender gaps in
representation, pensions, pay and poverty. She has undertaken a
range of policy work with governmental and non-governmental
organisations. Her work with government includes a secondment
(1999-2000) to the Women’s Unit, Cabinet Office where she edited
the report on Women’s Incomes over the Lifetime (The Stationery
Office: 2000). As chair of the Women’s Budget Group, she has
advised the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit, HM Treasury and a number
of other Government departments about gender issues in economic
policy. From 1996-2002 she was Lecturer in Social Policy at the
London School of Economics where she took a particular interest in
pension and other social security policy and published both in
traditional academic outlets and in the national press.
Professor Teresa Rees
School
of Social Sciences
Cardiff
University
www.cf.ac.uk/socsi
Mr Andy Rickell
Director
British Council of Disabled People
andy@bcodp.org.uk
www.bcodp.org.uk
Andy Rickell became the Director of the British
Council of Disabled People (BCODP) in August 2001.
Amongst other things he oversaw the splitting off of the
National Centre for Independent Living into a separate organisation,
and is currently overseeing a refocusing of the organisation towards
campaigning. He is the
Chair of the campaigning group, Our Rights Now, and was one of the
original authors of the Disabled People’s Rights and Freedoms
Bill.
Before working for BCODP he helped set up and
then ran as senior staff member a local organisation of disabled
people, Disability Action Cheltenham.
He was also the last Treasurer of the National Network of
Disabled Youth and Community Development Workers. Further back he worked in local authorities in
policy and community development.
In his spare time he is a borough and county councillor in
Cheltenham, and a local preacher for the Methodist Church.
Pam Smith
Commission for Racial Equality
Sarah Spencer
Chair
Equality and Diversity Forum
equalityforum@taen.org
Ms Hanne Stinson
Executive Director
British Humanist Association
hanne@humanism.org.uk
www.humanism.org.uk
Hanne Stinson has been Executive Director of
the British Humanist Association since December 2001. She graduated from University College London in
1969 and worked in postgraduate research at the Institute of
Psychiatry and then various other positions before moving into the
voluntary sector. From
1986 to 2001 she worked for the British Red Cross in a number of
different capacities, including youth work and later the development
and delivery of education programmes for staff and volunteers on
equality and anti-discrimination practice, and on the International
Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, international humanitarian law
and human rights. She
was a member of the Society’s Equal Opportunities Working Group
for several years. Her
final position with the British Red Cross was as a management
development adviser, and she has a particular interest in
organisational development and management of change.
A life-long humanist, Hanne is deeply committed to human
rights and equality of opportunity, and to working with others for
the common good.
Ben Summerskill
Chief Executive
Stonewall
Ben.summerskill@stonewall.org.uk
www.stonewall.org.uk
Ben Summerskill is chief executive of
Stonewall. Previously
Ben was Assistant Editor of the Observer.
He has also worked for the Daily Express, the London Evening
Standard and a range of magazines including The Pink Paper, The Face
and Time Out. Prior to
becoming a journalist Ben was operations director of a publically
quoted restaurant and hotel company. As well as playing a key role in parliamentary lobbying,
Stonewall works in a range of other areas promoting fair treatment
for lesbians and gay men in Britain. Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme for
major organisations now includes ten FT-SE 100 companies and public
bodies such as the Inland Revenue and Home Office.
More than two million people work for members of the scheme.
Mr John Wilkes
Director
Equal Opportunities Commission Scotland
John.wilkes@eoc.org.uk
www.eoc.org.uk
As head of EOC Scotland I have
responsibility for ensuring that the organisation’s corporate plan
is delivered in Scotland, leading the key strategic partnerships and
communications work and managing the Scotland team. In many ways the EOC Scotland
has become a microcosm of GB with its own legislature through the
Scottish Parliament and Executive, separate education and legal
systems and separate press and media. So, while the primary
legislation and resources that governs the work of the EOC comes
from Westminster, in Scotland we have to deliver that work taking
into account the complexity of the devolved Scottish context.
My own background is
varied. With a degree in Chemistry I started off as an engineer in
the microelectronics industry, which brought me to Scotland almost
20 years ago. Having moved into sales and marketing for a number of
years, I made the transition into the voluntary sector 10 years ago.
I spent over 7 years in HIV/AIDS organisations before joining Carers
UK as the Director for Carers Scotland. I joined the EOC in December
2001. My experience and commitment to equalities issues comes from
over 13 years as a volunteer/activist in the area of lesbian and gay
equality. I served as a co-opted member of the Communities Fund
Scotland Committee until March 2003.
Ms Mandy Wright
Director
Workforce and Diversity Issues
Employers'
Organisation for Local Government
mandy.wright@lg-employers.gov.uk
www.lg-employers.gov.uk
Mandy
Wright is Director (Workforce and Diversity Issues) at the
Employers’ Organisation for Local Government and is responsible
for the EO’s equalities team — DIALOG (Diversity in Action in
Local Government) — as well as for pensions, health and safety and
procurement.
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