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Trustees

  • Professor Fergus McNeill

    Chair

    Fergus McNeill is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow, where he works in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and in Sociology. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked in residential drug rehabilitation and as a criminal justice social worker.

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  • Sally Lewis OBE

    Honorary Treasurer

    Sally Lewis is former chief probation officer, Avon & Somerset Probation Trust.

  • Gerry Marshall

    Trustee

    Gerry Marshall was Chief Executive of Thames Valley Probation from 2001 to 2012, during which time they were both finalists and winners of Howard League Community Awards. He held the Probation Chiefs Association portfolio for Equality and Diversity and for Restorative Justice.

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  • Professor Ben Bradford

    Trustee

    Ben Bradford is the Professor of Global City Policing at University College London, where he leads the Institute for Global City Policing. His research primarily concerns procedural justice theory, police legitimacy, and trust and confidence in the criminal justice system.

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  • Adrian Briggs

    Trustee

    Adrian Briggs is an Official Prison Visitor and treasurer of his local Amnesty International group. He was London Family Future’s advisor on adoption and fostering and a social work programme tutor for the Open University. He served as a trustee for Adoption UK and was its Chair for a year.

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  • Dr Zubaida Haque

    Trustee

    Dr Zubaida Haque is the former Interim Director of the Runnymede Trust. She has a strong research and policy background in ethnicity and inequality within education, employment, housing, health, poverty, and criminal justice areas. She has also written and spoken widely on race, policing and crime, citizenship and deportations, ethnic minority voting and health inequality issues.

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  • Alexandra Marks CBE

    Trustee

    Alexandra Marks qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and was a partner at a city law firm till 2011. She now sits as a part-time judge. Alexandra received the Law Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 and was honoured with a CBE in 2017.

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  • John Tress

    Trustee

    John Tress is Head of Corporate Strategy at British International Investment (BII). A chartered accountant by training, he previously worked for PwC, where he spent the last eight years establishing, advising and partnering with not-for-profits.

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