Joseph Rowntree Foundation: seeking solutions to social problems

Board and group members


JRHT Board

  • Theodore Bacon (JRHT resident)
  • Ros Batchelor (Interim Manager and Consultant. Previously, Head of Development, Unity Housing Association)
  • Delroy Beverley (Director of Contract Services – Bradford Community Housing Trust)
  • Dame Ann Bowtell (JRF Trustee)
  • Paul Dack (JRF Director of Finance)
  • Jacquie Dale (JRF Director of Housing and Community Services)
  • Nigel Ingram (JRF Director of Development and Property Services)
  • Robert Halliday (JRHT resident)
  • Anne Harrop (JRF Director of Research and Policy)
  • Susan V Hartshorne (JRF Trustee)
  • Dr Ashok Jashapara (JRF Trustee)
  • John Kennedy (JRF Director of Care Services)
  • Julia Lewis (JRF Director of Communications)
  • Graham Millar (Retired; previously Group Finance Director, Nestle UK and Ireland)
  • Dame Mavis McDonald (JRF Trustee)
  • Nigel Naish (JRF Trustee)
  • Michael Sturge (JRF Deputy Director)
  • Julia Unwin (JRF Director)
  • Chris Vellenoweth (Independent health policy adviser, Barchester Health Care; previously chief officer in NHS)
  • Claire Warren (Chief Executive of West North West Homes, Leeds ALMO)
  • George Wood (Chair of York Valuing People Partnership Board, and Hartfields Extra Care Partnership. Retired; previously Deputy Chief Executive, York NHS Hospitals Trust)

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Programme Advisory Group on Alcohol

  • Don Brand (Chair) (JRF Trustee)
  • Nigel Naish (JRF Trustee)
  • Sally Haw (Principal Public Health Adviser, NHS Health Scotland)
  • Clive Henn (Senior Alcohol Advisor, Department of Health)
  • Ray Hodgson (Director/Professor, Alcohol Education and Research Council)
  • Andrew McNeill (Director, Institute of Alcohol Studies)
  • Tim Newburn (Professor of Criminology and Social Justice, Social Policy Department, London School of Economics)
  • Gaye Pedlow (Alcohol Policy Director, Diageo plc)
  • Richard Phillips (Independent Consultant– previously Director of Services, Phoenix House)
  • Martin Plant (Professor of Addiction Studies, University of the West of England and Co-Director, Alcohol and Health Research Trust)
  • Don Shenker (Chief Executive, Alcohol Concern)
  • Gill Valentine (Professor of Human Geography, University of Leeds and Director, Leeds Social Science Institute)
  • Richard Velleman (Professor of Mental Health Research, Mental Health Research & Development Unit, University of Bath)

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Public Interest in Poverty Issues Programme Advisory Group

  • Dame Ann Bowtell DCB (Chair) (JRF Trustee)
  • Clare Cochrane (Project Officer, Public Understanding of Poverty, Oxfam)
  • Kate Green (Director, Child Poverty Action Group)
  • Damian Killeen (Independent consultant)
  • Ruth Lister (Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University)
  • Kez Margrie (Series Producer, Newsround, BBC)
  • Sue Middleton (Research Director/Professor, Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), Loughborough University)
  • Geoff Mulgan (Director, Young Foundation)
  • Bob Satchwell (Director, Society of Editors)

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