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​Professor Sir Ian KennedyProfessor Sir Ian Kennedy, Chair, IPSA

 

Sir Ian is a lawyer who, for the past few decades, has lectured and written on the law and the ethics of healthcare. He is also Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University College of London and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He has been involved in public life for 25 years, earning a reputation for safeguarding the interests of members of the public in healthcare. He was Chairman of the Healthcare Commission, the public watchdog in health services provision, from its creation until 2009. During his time at the Commission, Sir Ian worked to improve standards across the NHS through access to information and knowledge for patients, clinicians and managers. He is, perhaps, best known as the leader of the public enquiry into the deaths in children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (1998–2001). This report contributed to the establishment of the Healthcare Commission in 2002. He also chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and is currently Chair of the UK Research Integrity Office, whose remit covers the proper conduct of research in universities and other research organisations. 

 

​Rt Hon Sir Scott BakerRt Hon Sir Scott Baker

Sir Scott was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1961. He was appointed as a Recorder in 1976 and remained one until 1988 when he was appointed as a High Court Judge in the Family Division (1988-92), and then transferred to the Queen’s Bench Division in 1992. In 1978 he was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2002. He was a member of the Government Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation (the Warnock Committee) 1982-84 and a member of the Parole Board 1999-2002. He sat as coroner for the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed in 2007 and 2008. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford in 2003.

 
Jackie Ballard
Jackie Ballard

Jackie has worked in the public and the voluntary sector.  In her early career she was a social worker and then an FE lecturer. She has been elected to four tiers of government - Town, District and County Council and was the  Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1997-2001. In Parliament, she was spokesperson on Women's Issues and on Local Government from 1997 to 1999 and from 1999 to 2001 was Deputy Home Affairs Spokesman with responsibility for the voluntary sector.  Between 2002 and 2007 she was Director General of the RSPCA and in October 2007 she was appointed Chief Executive of RNID, the leading charity on hearing loss.

 
Ken Olisa
Ken Olisa

Ken is a British businessman, whose career has focused on the technology sector. After 7 years at IBM (UK) he spent 12 years with Wang Laboratories where he ran worldwide marketing from the USA before returning to Brussels to head operations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In 1992 he founded technology merchant bank Interregnum which made its IPO on London's AIM exchange in 2000. Today he leads boutique tech merchant bank - Restoration Partners based in London. Ken serves on the boards of Thomson Reuters, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) and is an advisor to Open Text, after previously serving on their board. He is Chairman of Thames Reach a charity focused on ending street homelessness in London by 2012. He is a Warden of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, a Vice President of the British Computer Society and a member of the UK Government's Women's Enterprise Task Force. Ken was an inaugural member of the Postal Services Commission from 2000 to 2004 and a Governor of the Peabody Trust for a decade until 2007. He was named one of the UK's ten most influential black businessmen in the 2009 Power List.

 
Professor Isobel SharpProfessor Isobel Sharp

Isobel is a partner at Deloitte LLP where she specialises in financial reporting, company law and corporate governance matters. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh Business School and was President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland for 2007/8. Isobel has served on the UK's Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Reporting Review Panel. Isobel was awarded a CBE, in the Queen's New Year Honours List 2009, for services to the accountancy profession. She was a member of the Independent Review of Parliamentary Allowances group which reported in 2008 on the Reimbursement of Expenses for Members of the Scottish Parliament.

 

Andrew McDonaldDirectors
 
Chief Executive
Andrew McDonald
 

Andrew was appointed by the Speaker in September 2009. He was previously the chief executive of Government Skills, the Sector Skills Council for central government and the Armed Forces. He has been a civil servant for the past twenty years and has undertaken a range of policy and operational roles including the delivery of a construction project, leading a new agency at its start-up and running the constitutional reform programme. Andrew spent 2005-06 on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley where he was writing a book on constitutional reform and national identity.

 
Scott Woolveridge – Director of Operations

Scott joined IPSA as Director of Operations in September 2010. Most of his previous career has been spent in retail financial services organisations in the UK, Europe and the Middle East where he has specialised in call centre, transaction processing and process improvement activities.

 
John Sills – Director of Policy

John has been Director of Policy at IPSA since February 2010.  Prior to that John had been a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Justice and  its predecessor departments since 1999, working on a variety of policy areas including legal aid, civil justice and elections and democracy.  He also worked in the Court Service for three years as director of civil and family business.  John joined the civil service in 1992, beginning at the Cabinet Office. For most of the 1980s, he worked for British Petroleum as an economist and business analyst.

 
Bob Evans – Director of Finance and Corporate Services

Bob joined IPSA in December 2010, having previously been Finance Director at the Serious Fraud Office. During his career he has worked for a mixture of public and private sector bodies, including IBM, HM Treasury and Ministry of Defence and he was the Bank of England representative in Tokyo during the 1990s.

 
Anne Power – Director of Communications

Anne has been Director of Communications since September 2010. She joined IPSA from her previous post as Deputy Chief Press Officer at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). During her career with the FCO Anne has worked at the UK Delegation to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the United Kingdom Mission to the UN in New York and in various posts in London.

 





 
 
 
 

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