Runnymede- The Commission

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The Commission
Members

Bhikhu Parekh (chair)
Emeritus professor of political theory, University of Hull. Deputy chair of
the Commission for Racial Equality, 1985-90, and vice-chancellor of the
University of Baroda, 1981-4. Trustee of the Runnymede Trust. Raised to the
peerage as Baron Parekh of Kingston-on-Hull in 2000. Publications include
Marx's Theory of Ideology (1982), Gandhi's Political Philosophy (1989),
Critical Assessments of Jeremy Bentham (1993, 4 vols) and Rethinking
Multiculturalism: cultural diversity and political theory (2000).

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Writer and journalist. Currently a regular columnist on the Independent.
Frequent radio and television broadcaster. Senior research fellow at the
Foreign Policy Centre and recently a research fellow at the Institute for
Public Policy Research. Member of the Home Office Race Relations Forum, the
Forced Marriage Working Party, and the Fourth PSI Survey Advisory Committee.
Publications include True Colours (1999), Who Do We Think We Are? (2000) and
After Multiculturalism (2000).

Muhammad Anwar
Research professor at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER),
University of Warwick, and previously director of CRER, 1989-94. Head of
research at the Commission for Racial Equality, 1981-9. Member of the BBC
General Advisory Council, 1983-9. Publications include The Myth of Return
(1979), Race and Politics (1986), Race and Elections (1994) and From
Legislation to Integration? (co-editor, 1999).

Colin Bailey
Chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police, 1995-2000. Previously deputy
chief constable, 1990-5, assistant chief constable of West Yorkshire Police,
1986-90, and member of Lincolnshire Police, 1962-86. In the Association of
Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has been chair of the Race Relations
Sub-Committee and the Crime Prevention Sub-Committee.

Michael Chan
Professor of ethnic health, University of Liverpool. Director of the NHS
Ethnic Health Unit, 1994-7, and commissioner at the Commission for Racial
Equality, 1990-5. Chair, Chinese in Britain Forum. Non-executive director,
Wirral and West Cheshire Community NHS Trust. Member of the Sentencing
Advisory Panel. Recent publications include articles on the Chinese
community in Britain (1999) and quality and race in the NHS (1996, 1998).

Navnit Dholakia
Chair, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders
(NACRO). Formerly member of the Police Complaints Authority, and before that
on the staff of the Commission for Racial Equality. Member of the Home
Office Race Relations Forum and of the editorial advisory group, Howard
Journal of Criminal Justice. Raised to the peerage as Baron Dholakia of
Waltham Brooks in 1997.

David Faulkner
Senior research associate, University of Oxford Centre for Criminological
Research. Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, 1992-9, and deputy secretary
at the Home Office, 1982-92. Chair of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Publications include Darkness and Light (1996) and chapters in Relational
Justice (1994) and Public Services and Citizenship in European Law (1998).

Kate Gavron (vice-chair of the Commission)
Trustee of the Runnymede Trust. Trustee and Research Fellow, Institute of
Community Studies, with particular interest in the Bangladeshi community in
East London. Trustee of Mutual Aid Centre, Bethnal Green. Chair, Carcanet
Press. Member of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia.

Stuart Hall
Emeritus professor of sociology, Open University, and visiting professor,
Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Professor of sociology at the
Open University, 1979-9, and director of the Centre for Cultural Studies,
University of Birmingham, 1968-79. Chair of the board of the Institute of
the International Visual Arts (INIVA) and of Autograph, the Association of
Black Photographers. Recent publications include Questions of Cultural
Identity (co-author, 1996), and chapters in Critical Dialogues in Cultural
Studies (1996) and Revising Multiculturalisms (2000).

Bob Hepple QC
Master of Clare College and professor of law, University of Cambridge.
Former commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality and former
chairman of industrial tribunals. Publications include Race, Jobs and the
Law in Britain (second edition, 1970), Discrimination: the limits of law
(co-editor, 1992) and Equality: a new framework, the report of the
Independent Review of Enforcement of UK Anti-discrimination Legislation
(co-author, 2000).

Judith Hunt
Chair of Camden and Islington Health Authority. Formerly chief executive of
the Local Government Management Board, 1993-9, and of the London Borough of
Ealing, 1986-93. Has served as a Civil Service Commissioner and as a member
of the Economic and Social Research Council Priorities Board. Trustee of
Common Purpose. Publications include Fairness or Failure: equal
opportunities recruitment (co-author, 1998) and guidance for local
authorities on responding to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and the Home
Secretary's action plan (co-author, 1999).

Antony Lerman
Formerly executive director, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, 1991-9.
Editor of Patterns of Prejudice, 1983-99. Member of the Runnymede Trust
Commission on Antisemitism, 1991-3, and of the Imperial War Museum advisory
committee on a permanent Holocaust exhibition. Editor, The Jewish
Communities of the World (1989) and Antisemitism World Report (1992-8).

Matthew McFarlane
Chief inspector, Nottinghamshire Police. Responsible for strategy and policy
on race and community relations issues. Previously staff officer to the
chair of the Race and Community Relations Sub-Committee of the Association
of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). Attended hearings during Part Two of the
Lawrence Inquiry on behalf of ACPO.

Andrew Marr
(Until April 2000.) Chief political editor for BBC Television, from summer
2000. Previously columnist on the Express and the Observer and editor of the
Independent. Publications include The Battle for Scotland (1996), Ruling
Britannia (1998) and The Day Britain Died (2000).

Tariq Modood (adviser)
Professor of sociology at the University of Bristol and director of the
Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. Previously a programme
director at the Policy Studies Institute, principal researcher on the Fourth
National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, 1993-7, and principal employment
officer at the Commission for Racial Equality, 1989-91. Member of the DfEE's
Race, Education and Employment Forum. Publications include Not Easy Being
British (1992), Ethnic Minorities in Britain (co-author, 1997), Ethnicity,
Employment and Higher Education (co-author, 1999).

Sir Peter Newsam
Chief Adjudicator of School Organisation and Administrations. Formerly
director of the Institute of Education, University of London, 1985-92,
chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, 1981-5, and chief education
officer for the Inner London Education Authority, 1975-81.

Sir Herman Ouseley
Director of Different Realities Partnership and Focus Consultancy Ltd.
Consultant adviser to Metropolitan Police Service. Chair of Caribbean
Advisory Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Formerly chair of the
Commission for Racial Equality, chief executive of Lambeth Borough Council
and the Inner London Education Authority. Council member of the Institute of
Race Relations. Chair of Kick It Out Ltd. Publications include The System
(1981).

Anne Owers
Director of JUSTICE and previously general secretary of the Joint Council
for the Welfare of Immigrants, 1986-92. Member of the Home Office Task Force
on implementation of the Human Rights Act, the Crown Office Review Team and
the Legal Services Consultative Panel. Previously member of the Lord
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct, 1997-9, and
chair of trustees, Refugee Legal Centre, 1993. Publications include
Providing Protection: asylum determination systems (1997), Legislating for
Human Rights (1998) and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: their
implementation in UK law (co-editor, 1999).

Trevor Phillips
Broadcaster and journalist. Chair of the Greater London Assembly, 2000. Head
of current affairs and executive producer of factual programmes for London
Weekend Television, 1990-6. Chair of the Runnymede Trust, 1993-8. Member of
the Home Office Race Relations Forum and formerly chair of the London Arts
Board. Publications include Windrush: the irresistible rise of multiracial
Britain (co-author, 1998).

Robin Richardson (consultant)
Formerly director of the Runnymede Trust and currently co-director of the
Insted consultancy. His publications include Daring To Be A Teacher (1990),
Enriching Literacy (1999) and Inclusive Schools, Inclusive Society: race and
identity on the agenda (co-author, 1999).

Sarah Spencer
Director of the citizenship and governance programme, Institute for Public
Policy Research. Formerly general secretary, National Council for Civil
Liberties, and director, Cobden Trust. Member of the Home Office task force
on implementation of the Human Rights Act and of the British Council Law
Advisory Committee. Publications include Strangers and Citizens (editor,
1994), Migrants, Refugees and the Boundaries of Citizenship (1995) and
Mainstreaming Human Rights in Whitehall and Westminster (co-author, 1999).

Seamus Taylor
Head of policy: equality and diversity, Haringey Borough Council, and chair,
Action Group for Irish Youth. Previously held a range of posts in the
voluntary sector and local government, mainly concerned with corporate
planning and race equality. Adviser to the Commission for Racial Equality on
research study on discrimination and the Irish community. Drafting author of
>From the Margins to the Mainstream series of documents (1991-4).

Sally Tomlinson
Emeritus professor of educational policy, Goldsmiths' College, University of
London, and research associate, University of Oxford Department of
Educational Studies. Member of the African Education Trust. Publications
include Multicultural Education in White Areas (1990), Ethnic Relations and
Schooling (1995) and Hackney Downs: the school that dared to fight
(co-author, 1999).

Sue Woodford-Hollick
Chair of Index on Censorship, 1993-2000, and founding commissioning editor
of multicultural programmes, Channel 4 Television. Vice-chair of the
Caribbean Advisory Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Member of the
general council of the Royal Commonwealth Society and of Broadcast Diversity
Network. Co-founder in 2000 of EQ, a project to increase black and Asian
representation in politics.

Staff
Staff during the Commission's lifetime were as follows:

Halima Begum who prepared research papers and helped manage specialist
taskforces

Dee Bunbury provided secretarial and administrative support for meetings,
1999-2000, and for the report in its successive drafts.

Teresa Clark undertook a range of additional studies and investigations for
the report's final version and helped to complete the final text.

Helen Francis was administrative assistant when the Commission was first set
up.

Zubaida Haque prepared substantial papers on education, and on arts, media
and sport.

Gail Hopkins analysed and collated written submissions to the Commission.

Jessica Penn steered the Commission's work throughout the academic year
1998/99 and organised a major series of research seminars.

Robin Richardson was editor of the report.

Helen Seaford was the Commission's first director.

Assistance with bibliographical matters and contacts with community
organisations was provided by Kaushika Amin.

Substantial assistance for the design and layout of the website was provided
by Poppy Cullen.

For the initial planning and preparation of the Commission in 1996,
assistance was provided by Veena Vasista.


                      
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