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Janet Paraskeva

Janet became the First Commissioner on 1 January 2006.

She is Chair of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, Chair of the Olympic Lottery Distributor and a non-executive board member of the Serious Organised Crime Agency. She was, until March 2008, an independent member of the Consumer Council for Water and a non-executive board member of the Asset Recovery Agency

From October 2000 until August 2006  she was the Law Society‘s Chief Executive 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.

She had previously been Director for England of the National Lottery Charities Board, where she set up and ran the England operation that awarded more than £1.5 billion to voluntary organisations.

Earlier appointments included 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.