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.