Board, Patrons and AssociatesORG is a registered charity governed by a Board of Trustees and supported by a network of Patrons and Associates who come from all walks of life. The Board of Trustees meets once a year at the Annual General Meeting to review ORG’s activities, strategic direction and fundraising progress, as well as at other times throughout the year to review and advise on any major developments in these areas. ORG is fortunate to benefit from the wealth of experience in its Board members in ensuring the sound management and guidance of our activities and financial affairs. Professor Oliver Ramsbotham has been Chair of the Board since April 2007. He moved to the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in 1991, having worked several years previously as a consultant and writer with Oxford Research Group. At the Department of Peace Studies he was Professor of Peace Studies and Head of Department between 1999-2002. Since then he has been Professor of Conflict Resolution. He has published more than 60 articles and papers, mainly on humanitarian intervention, conflict resolution and peacekeeping, but also with an interest in Islam/Christian relations. Dr. Frank Boulton is Company Secretary. Frank is based in Southampton where he was a consultant physician and haematologist, specialising in haemophilia care and in blood transfusion. He is currently President of the British Blood Transfusion Society (until late 2007), was consultant advisor on blood transfusion to HM Armed Forces until 2006, and continues as consultant advisor to the World Health Organisation. He has been associated with ORG since its early days and became Company Secretary in 2000. He has long supported Medact and its predecessor bodies, and became Chair of Medact in June 2006. An active Quaker, he was briefly a member of the Quaker Peace and Social Witness Council and wants to promote active engagement between ORG and Quakers - and, increasingly, other faith groups. David Haines was appointed as ORG's treasurer in May 2008. Now working for Haysmacintyre, a leading audit practice in the charity sector, David's experience includes appointments as Finance Director for World Vision in Afghanistan and Regional Finance Director for Merlin Aid Agency in East Africa. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants and advises the ORG Board on matters connected to finance, fundraising and governance. Having seen the effects of military conflict firsthand, he is an enthusiastic supporter of ORG's work and is committed to its mission and vision. Dr. Scilla Elworthy founded Oxford Research Group in 1982, and was Executive Director until December 2003 and Chair of the Board until April 2007. It is for this work that she was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003 and nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. She then founded Peace Direct, which grew out of ORG’s conflict prevention work, became an independent NGO with charitable status during 2004, and was named Best New Charity at the Charity Awards 2005. Scilla is a prolific writer, notably of studies on the role of women in international relations. Gill Reeve joined the Board in 2006. Gill has worked for many years as a freelance writer and staff member of various NGOs, most recently Medact where she spend 19 years in various roles including Director. There she focussed on communications, and facilitated the Working Group on Violence, Conflict and Health, commissioning and overseeing the production of a series of influential reports on the long-term health impacts of the war on Iraq. She also facilitated Medact’s WMD Hazards Group which has produced many key briefings on, for example, nuclear weapons. Gill left Medact at the end of 2005 but remains a consultant on WMD issues. She now devotes more time to her own writing, and while on the ORG Board aims to help strengthen the organisation’s outreach and communications. Professor Hugh Miall joined the Board in 2006. He is Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent. Until 2005 he was Director of the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University. He was previously a Research Fellow in the European Programme of Chatham House, research director of Oxford Research Group, and a researcher in energy and environmental issues at Earth Resources Research. He has taught at Essex University and the Open University and has been a visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of Utrecht. His research interests lie in the areas of war and peace, conflict resolution, conflict prevention, and peaceful change. Philippa Drew joined the Board in 2007. Philippa retired from the civil service in 2006. Most of her career was spent in the Home Office dealing with crime, criminal justice, prisons, probation and terrorism. She had two periods in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, latterly as Director of Global Issues with responsibility for climate change, sustainable development, human rights, democracy, conflict prevention, science and technology, the United Nations and the Commonwealth. Sue Gillie joined the Board in 2007. Sue sold her small chain of estate agencies in 1988 and turned entirely to voluntary work in the not-for-profit sector. Past trusteeships include the Friends of Dulwich College (Chair), the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery (devising and organising events for them), the Nationwide Foundation, and the Association of Charitable Foundations. For seven years she ran, was a trustee, and then chaired the Ashoka UK branch of an international development charity. Currently she chairs the New Economics Foundation (nef). Membership since 1989 of the Network for Social Change, a very active private grant making group, led to her becoming a founding director of The Funding Network, a very successful new paradigm for collective giving for social change. ORG Patrons are renowned contributors to public life who endorse ORG’s aims and support our work. Dame Margaret Anstee Lorna Arnold General Dipankar Banerjee General Sir Hugh Beach Nicholas Gillett Professor Frank von Hippel Dr. Rebecca Johnson Professor Jack Mendelsohn Dr. Mary Midgley Major-General Pan Zhenqiang Hon. Douglas Roche Dr. Maj-Britt Theorin Associates of Oxford Research Group are individuals who have participated in one or more of ORG's meetings or roundtables and have expressed their willingness to personally and publicly endorse our commitment to seek to develop effective methods whereby people can bring about positive change on issues of national and international security by non-violent means. This initiative was launched in September 2004 and this list will be updated regularly as new Associates join the programme. Ken Aldred OBE Sir Michael Atiyah OM, FRS Michael Attenborough Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi Anthony Barnett Professor Frans Berkhout Jo Berry Professor Ken Booth FBA Professor Jim Bryant Mark Brayne Sir Samuel Brittan Dr. Alexander Christiani Professor Kevin Clements Commander Rodney W. W. Craig MInstD MNI RN (Ret.) Ann Cryer MP Dr. Ian Davis Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala Paul Eavis David Edgar George Farebrother Dr. Trevor Findlay Lesley Garner Dr. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh John Gittings Roger Graef Commander Robert Green RN (Ret.) Professor Nick Grief Dr. Steven Haines Canon Christopher Hall Brian Hanrahan Eirwen Harbottle Commodore Tim Hare RN (Ret.) The Right Reverend Richard Harries DD FKC FRSL Carolyn Hayman OBE Lindsey Hilsum Dr. George Joffe Dr. Elaine Kaye Stuart Kemp Dr. Tony Kempster Bruce Kent Nigel de Lee Dr. Sverre Lodgaard Alice Mahon Dr. Ron McCoy Dr. Chandrika Nath Rev. Dr. Vladimir Nikiforov Gerry Northam Dr. Susie Orbach Tony Purton Niu Qiang Dr. Magnus Ranstorp Ambassador Henrik Salander Kim Sengupta Professor Avi Shlaim FBA Clare Short MP Michael Smith Professor John Spencer Jonathan Steele Dr Tony Voss Dr. Timmon Wallis Captain G.A.S.C. Wilson RN (Ret.) |
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