Janet became the First Commissioner on 1 January 2006.
She was appointed Chair of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission in November 2007. She is also a non-executive board member of the Serious Organised Crime Agency and Chair of the Olympic Lottery Distributor.
She has served as an independent member of the Consumer Council for Water.
She was the Law Society‘s Chief Executive from 2000 until August 2006 and led a shake-up of its governance and operational systems to restore its credibility as a front-line regulator for solicitors and to establish separately its role as the professional body to represent the profession.
Earlier appointments included Director for England of the National Lottery Charities Board, Chief Executive of the National Youth Agency and non-executive director of a community NHS trust. She has also been one of HM Inspectors of Education, a member of the Youth Justice Board, a magistrate and a ChildLine council member.
Janet was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June 2010.
Alexandra was Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University from 1997-2005. She now chairs the Education Honours Committee and is the first independent Chair of the British Council‘s Education- UK Partnership.
Other former academic appointments include Deputy Chair of the National Learning and Skills Council, Chair of UKCOSA, Chair of the National Quality Assurance Framework Review Group for HE and member of the HEFCE Quality Assurance and Learning and Teaching Committee. She was High Sheriff for the County of Greater Manchester for 2006/07. She now sits on the boards of a number of educational institutions.
Alexandra completed her term of appointment and stepped down as a Civil Service Commissioner at the end of March 2010.
Janet became a Civil Service Commissioner on 1 January 2006, when she was also appointed the Commissioner for Public Appointments. In the latter capacity, she regulates ministerial appointments to designated public bodies in England and Wales and certain posts in Northern Ireland.
She took up the appointments on stepping down as Senior Partner of Simmons & Simmons, a City-based international law firm. Previously, she was a member of the Employment Tribunals Service Steering Board, Chair of the Employment Tribunal System Taskforce and a member of the Council of ACAS.
Janet was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June 2010.
Mary Jo is a portfolio executive and adviser on brands and reputation.
She chairs the idm Group and Forensic Science Service's Independent Advisory Group and consults for CriticalEye, International Marketing Partners and the Gerson Lehrman Group.
She is a UK-US Fulbright Commissioner; a non-executive director of the American Council on Germany, Benjamin Franklin House and the National Youth Music Theatre. She is a member of the FCO's Wilton Park Advisory Council and chair of its affiliated foundations, and a visiting fellow of the University of Leeds Business School.
Previously she has been the chief reputation officer of several major multinational corporations a senior adviser to two US Presidents.
Mary Jo completed her term of appointment and stepped down as a Civil Service Commissioner at the end of March 2010.
John works for the charity War Child.
He was Director of Administration at the National Gallery from 1994 to 2006, and had previously worked in HM Treasury in a wide range of roles, including the planning of public expenditure, labour market issues, human resources and corporate development. He has also worked in product development for a high performance materials company and as trustee for various charities.
John completed his term of appointment and stepped down as a Civil Service Commissioner at the end of March 2010.
Elizabeth is a non-executive director of Direct Wines Ltd and of J D Wetherspoon plc. She sits on the Membership Selection Panel for Network Rail and is an independent member of the Remuneration Committee of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.
Her earlier career, spanning manufacturing and retailing, started at Colgate- Palmolive before a move to Tesco in 1989.
She has held a number of director-level positions in buying, marketing, human resources and change management. She led the creation of Tesco Express and gained international experience running Catteau in Northern France.
Elizabeth completed her term of appointment and stepped down as a Civil Service Commissioner at the end of March 2010.
Stella is an organisational consultant, executive coach and a member of the School Teachers Review Body (STRB).
She has over 25 years’ experience in human resources management and consulting, including leadership roles at ABN AMRO, Barclays, Bank of America and PWC. Until 2004, she was Linklaters’ Global HR Director and an executive member of its European Committee.
Stella completed her term of appointment and stepped down as a Civil Service Commissioner at the end of March 2010.
Christopher is Chairman of Traidcraft plc and a non-executive director of WSP, a global engineering consultancy and Holidaybreak plc, a travel and education business. He is also Chairman of the DHL (UK) Foundation, a charity committed to community development and education projects both in the UK and worldwide.
Until 2004, he was Group Human Resources Director of Exel (now DHL), the international logistics company.
Christopher resigned as a Commissioner in July 2009 when appointed to the Senior Salaries Review Board.
Mike spent 16 years in HM Diplomatic Service. He was subsequently International Director of Save the Children and, from 1995-2005, Chief Executive.
He is now Chairman of Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and a non-executive director of Oxford Policy Management Ltd. A visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, he also lectures at the UK Defence Academy and at NATO HQ on civil/military cooperation.
Mark holds non-executive roles at the National Archives and Salix Finance.
He left the Civil Service in 2006 as Director General, Operations and Service Delivery, Defra. He was from 1998 to 2001 Chief Executive, Crown Prosecution Service and before that held posts in the Cabinet Office, the Health and Safety Executive, No 10 and the Department of Employment.
Bernard has spent most of his career in local government. In 2007 he retired from Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council where he was Chief Executive for 10 years. Before that he was Chief Executive of West Lancashire Council from 1990 to 1997.
He has been a non-executive director of a Training and Enterprise Council and Business Link, and a Governor of a Further Education College and Secondary School. He is currently the Chair of Trafford Housing Trust and a Board Member and Trustee of the Halle Concerts Society.
Anthea has held a number of appointments and posts in the public sector, most recently as Chairman of Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority from 2002 to 2006.
Her earlier career spanned secondary education, HM Inspectorate of Schools, and initial teacher training as Chief Executive of the Teacher Training Agency from 1995 to 1999.
Her voluntary work included the Vice Presidency – Education of the Royal Geographical Society and governorship of the Commonwealth Institute.
Her work in education has taken her abroad for the Inspectorate, for the World Bank and for the Government of the Cayman Islands.
Ranjit trained as a physicist, is an experienced community action worker and has served on a number of national public bodies since the late 1980s. He has been a member of the Independent Broadcasting Authority and of the Radio Authority; a deputy Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality; Chairman of the Refugee Employment Training and Education Forum; member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct; a trustee of the National Gallery, a member of the Home Secretary’s Race Equality Advisory Panel; and a governor of the BBC with special responsibility for the English regions.
He was, until very recently, a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the Community and Youth Studies department. Currently, he is Chairman of the Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust; and of the Baring Foundation; Chairman of sampad, a South Asian Arts organisation; a trustee of the National Education Trust and a governor of a Birmingham primary school.
Libby is currently Deputy President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.
She practised at the Bar in London before serving as Senior Crown Counsel and later Registrar of the Supreme Court in Bermuda. Accompanying her diplomat husband, she lived in Pakistan, Canada and Swaziland where she became involved with various NGOs and charities. A former member of the National Lottery Charities Board, later Community Fund, Libby chaired the Wales Committee.
She is a member of the Lord Chancellor‘s Advisory Committee on the Appointment of JPs in Gwent. She is a Fellow of Gray’s Inn. A Welsh speaker, she is a Deputy Lieutenant of Gwent.
Neil has recently completed a term as inaugural Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.
He pursued a career in Local Government in Scotland, latterly as Chief Executive of Strathclyde Regional Council until 1996, and has subsequently been engaged in a range of public appointments including involvement as a member of the UK Electoral Commission, Convener of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Services and Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland.
Christine has just stood down as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stirling, Scotland. She is a Professor of Social Policy and has held academic appointments at the Universities of Oxford, Keele, Western Australia and Leicester. She has researched and published in the fields of child care and protection, gender and social policy and user participation in social welfare.
She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, chairs the Board of Trustees of UKCISA (UK Council for International Student Affairs) and is a Trustee of NatCen (the National Centre for Social Research).
She convenes the Research and Commercialisation Committee for Universities Scotland.
