Board and group members

The JRF have several strategic groups made up of experts in the field.

Empowerment Strategy Group

Ashok Jashapara (CHAIR - Trustee)
Prof Dianne Willcocks CBE DL (Trustee)
Don Brand (JRF Trustee)
David Behan (Director General for Social Care, Department of Health)
Lynne Berry (Chief Executive, WRVS)
Clive Bowman (Medical Director, BUPA Care Homes)
David Brindle (Public Services Editor, The Guardian)
Samantha Clark (Director, Inclusion North)
Andrew Cozens (Strategic Adviser, IDeA)
Alison Faulkner (Freelance mental health researcher and service user)
Kalyani Gandhi (Independent Consultant)
Stephen Haddrill (Director General, Association of British Insurers)
Mark Harrison (Chief Executive, Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People)
Dilshad Kahn (Director of Equality and Diversity, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Peter Kay (Head of Service for Adults and Health, Bradford Metropolitan District Council)
David Kelly (Managing Director, Scotland and Ireland, Tunstall Healthcare Group)
Christine Kirk (Retired Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, York NHS Trust)
Saida Mughal (Senior Care Manager, Bradford Metropolitan District Council)
Imelda Redmond CBE (Chief Executive, Carers UK)
Dorothy Runnicles (Better Government for Older People)
Zulfiqar Ahmed (Director of Programmes and Development, UnLtd)

Mavis McDonald (CHAIR - Trustee)
Steven Burkeman (Trustee)
Tony Stoller (Trustee)
Keith Exford (Chief Executive, Affinity Sutton Group)
Angiolina Foster (Director, Strategy and Ministerial Support Directorate, Scottish Government)
Arvinda Gohil (Independent consultant)
Lindsay Greenwood (Director, West Yorkshire Housing Partnership)
Steve Hartley (Assistant Director of Neighbourhood Services, Bradford Metropolitan District Council)
Roy Irwin (Director of Housing, Sustainability and Economic Development)
Gayna Jones (Consultant, Hendre Ltd)
Bob Kerslake (Chief Executive Designate, Homes and Communities Agency)
Jameel Malik (Head of Housing and Property Services, Warwick District Council)
Isobel Mills (Director of People and Communities Group, Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber)
Bernadette O'Shea (Chief Executive, Hounslow Homes)
Tony Reeves (Chief Executive, Bradford Metropolitan District Council)
Bill Payne (Chief Executive, Metropolitan Housing)
Kim Scott (Places for People)
Dr Robert Stoneman (Chief Executive, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust)
Barbara Thorndick (Chief Executive, West Kent Housing Association)
Rebecca Tunstall (Lecturer in Housing, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics)
Steve Wyler (Director, Development Trusts Association)

Ann Bowtell (CHAIR - Trustee)
Bharat Mehta OBE (City Parochial Foundation and Trustee)
Graham Millar (Trustee)
Caroline Abrahams (Programme Director, Children and Young People, Local Government Association)
Pete Alcock (Professor of Social Policy and Administration, University of Birmingham)
Kay Allen (Group Head of Social Policy and Inclusion, Royal Mail Group)
Jas Bains (Chief Executive, Ashram Housing Association)
Richard Bartholomew (Chief Research Officer, Department for Children, Schools and Families)
Ian Basnett (Director of Public Health, Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust)
Harris Beider (Academic Director, Institute of Community Cohesion)
Helen Dent (Chief Executive, Family Action)
Patrick Diamond (Group Director of Strategy, Equality and Human Rights Commission)
Jane Falkingham (Professor of Demography and International Social Policy, University of Southampton)
Dominic Fox (Chief Executive at Hoffmann Foundation for Autism)
Kaliani Lyle (Chief Executive Officer, Citizens Advice Scotland)
Judith Moran (Director, Quaker Social Action)
Moraene Roberts (ATD Fourth World)
Amanda Rowlatt (Director, Department for Work and Pensions)
Asheem Singh (Deputy Director, ResPublica)
Wahida Shaffi (Director of Training and Development, Communityspeak)
Claire Turner (Programme Manager, JRF)