Professor Antony Sheehan, Chair
Antony is Chief Executive of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust - one of England's largest mental health and learning disability trusts. He is currently Professor of Health and Social Care Strategy at the University of Central Lancashire and Visiting Professor at the University of Central England. Antony has been a prominent figure in developing Mental Health services in England for the last decade and, in an international context, developed the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership.

Edward Weiss, Treasurer
Edward Weiss was a Commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, a body which investigates whether there has been a miscarriage of justice in criminal cases. He is now associated with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. Formerly he was chairman of Loss Reviews at Lloyd's and on the corporate finance panel, and has spent many years in business as a main board Director of Chubb Security. He has been Chairman and non-executive Director of several companies over the last few years (including a sheltered housing company) and was a Director of the Chartered Accountants Compensation Company and deputy chairman of its Business Law Committee. He is on the appeals committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Stuart Aaron MBE
Stuart is a retired chemical engineer who worked for Shell and latterly the Chemical Industries Association. He is currently chair of Chaucer Homecare, a charitable trust providing community-support services in Kent, and works as a volunteer at one of their gardening work-training schemes in Canterbury. He also serves as a governor at the local village primary school.

Dr David Cohen FRSM
David is a psychologist and Chief Executive of film and television production company Psychology News, which has made acclaimed documentaries on mental health subjects, such as the recent Inside Broadmoor, which was nominated for a Mental Health Media award. He is author of 27 books including Broadmoor, Soviet Psychiatry, Alter Egos, and Carl Rogers: A Biography, and has directed numerous documentaries. He has also published Goodbye Dearest Holly, a book by Kevin Wells whose daughter Holly was killed at Soham by Ian Huntley.

Mary Hancock
After a working life that encompassed social-services management, social-work education, psychiatric social work, research and teaching, Mary ended her career with the Social Services Inspectorate. Honorary curate-in-charge at Christ Church Colliers Wood and part-time assistant chaplain at Wandsworth Prison, she has provided advice on mental health issues to the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility. She is also a trustee of Cruse Bereavement Care.

Albert Larmie
Until his recent retirement, Albert was Service Manager for Adult Mental Health Services and Substance Misuse at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, having previously been Assistant Clinical Director for Mental Health Services for North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. Prior to that Albert spent many years in nursing management.

Dr William Obomanu
William is a Consultant in Forensic Psychiatry with the Lambeth Forensic Service, which is part of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. He works with inpatients at the Tony Hillis Unit, a 15-bed ward offering forensic low-secure support, and with outpatients through the Lambeth Community Forensic Team. He has lectured and written on many aspects of forensic psychiatry, and psychiatry and the law, and he has a special interest in the psychiatric aspects of medical anthropology.

Mark Vincent
Mark is Head of the Division of Mental Health and Learning Disability at the University of Northampton. Before that he was Commercial Director, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, at De Montfort University in Leicester. He has also held the posts of Associate Director of Training and Education at Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare NHS Trust, and Associate Director of Nursing and Quality for Leicestershire Mental Health Services. He began his career as a geologist but decided to become a nurse working within mental health, and spent a number of years as a CPN and as a nurse tutor. He was a member of the Department of Health’s working group on mental health recruitment and retention.

Anneke Westra
Anneke's work focuses on enabling the voice of people who access mental health services to be heard, particularly by opening up channels of communication, through service-user involvement. The aims of her work are to promote genuine partnership working between those who access services and mental health professionals at all levels, to improve the quality of mental health service provision, as well as improving patients’ experiences and enhancing their chances of recovery.
Her responsibilities have included developing a service-user-involvement framework for East London and its implementation; running a service-user-controlled and managed in-patient organisation; working as a service-user involvement consultant and facilitator; and campaigning with No Force to voice service-users’ concerns about the proposed Mental Health Bill. She has a PhD in Biotechnology and is carrying out a research project on psychotrophic drug metabolism and severe adverse events with the Institute of Psychiatry. She is also a user of mental health services.

Sue Young
Sue is a consultant in the human resources field specialising in the evaluation of senior roles in Central Government and a member of the Commissioner for Public Appointments' Central List of Independent Assessors. She is also Deputy Chairman of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Appointments Committee. Director of a community addiction service, lay chair for the Yorkshire Deanery and acts as a trainer on behalf of NHS Employers, she is a former chairman of a Primary Care Trust and Health Authority and was influential in the modernisation of pay arrangements for over a million NHS staff. She was the first co-chair, with a leading Trades Union official, of the NHS UK Staff Council, a member of the Job Evaluation Group and NHS Employers Policy Board.

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