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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 earned a
reputation for safeguarding the interests
of members of the public in healthcare
and is, perhaps, best known as the leader
of the public inquiry into the deaths in
children’s heart surgery at the Bristol
Royal Infirmary (1998-2001). In 2010, he
produced a review of Children’s Services
in the National Health Service.
Former holder of high judicial office:
The Rt Hon Sir Scott Baker
Sir Scott Baker was called to the Bar in
1961. He was appointed as a Recorder
in 1976 and remained one until he was
appointed as a High Court Judge in
the Family Division in 1988. In 1992,
he transferred to the Queen’s Bench
Division. 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. 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.
Registered Auditor: Professor Isobel
Sharp CBE
Isobel Sharp is a registered auditor and
chartered accountant. She advises on
corporate governance and other public
policy matters for Deloitte LLP. Isobel
is a Visiting Professor at the University
of Edinburgh Business School and was
President of The Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Scotland for 2007-08.
She served on the UK’s Accounting
Standards Board, during which time it
was considering pension issues, and
the Financial Reporting Review Panel.
In particular, she contributed to a
book on reward governance for senior
executives. Isobel 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.
Former Member of Parliament: Jackie
Ballard
Jackie Ballard has worked in the public
and the voluntary sector. In her early
career she was a social worker and then
a Further Education 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
1997-99 and from 1999-2001 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 Action on Hearing Loss (formerly
RNID).
Ken Olisa OBE
Ken Olisa is an IT entrepreneur and
philanthropist with a focus on social
inclusion. His executive career at IBM
and Wang prepared him to found and
float Interregnum. Today he leads
boutique technology merchant bank,
Restoration Partners. He is an advisor
to, or Director of, several companies
including Thomson Reuters. His extensive
pro bono experience includes NHS Trust
NED, Peabody Trust Governor, Founding
Chairman of the Powerlist Foundation
and Chair of Thames Reach for which
he was awarded an OBE in 2010. He
is Deputy Master of the Information
Technologists’ Livery Company, a Vice
President of BCS, the Chartered Institute
for IT and in 2012, became an 1869
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