Natural Justice Trustees Information
The Earl Kitchener (President)
The Earl Kitchener, President of Natural Justice, is its longest serving Trustee, and was its first Chairman. He is President of the Henry Doubleday Research Association, of which he was Chairman for many years, an organisation also known as Garden Organic, which seeks to encourage the use of organic methods in horticulture.
Lord Kitchener was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, reading maths and physics. He served in the Army Signals in World War II in London, Italy and India. Until his retirement in 1981, Lord Kitchener worked for the Alakali, later Mond Division of ICI, primarily on the mathematical aspects of chemical engineering.
Lord Kitchener has always been a great advocate for evidence-based policy, and for public support for research with significant public health potential where there is little or no likelihood of commercial support.
Mrs Frances Jackson (Chairman)
Frances Jackson, Chairman of Natural Justice since April 2007, left banking in 1988 and has since been fully committed to the not for profit sector. She has a degree in history from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and joined Citibank in New York after receiving an MBA from the Stanford Business School. She subsequently transferred to London, and has lived in the UK since 1982, in Northamptonshire and London. She is married and has two children. Mrs. Jackson has been a member of the Development Board at the National Portrait Gallery for six years where she chairs the Individual Giving Group, has served on the steering committee of the Ashmolean's £60million capital campaign and founded and chaired one of the patron groups there. She was a member of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Grendon and Springhill for six years, and has been involved in various capacities with Action Medical Research and other charities for many years
Lord Ramsbotham (Vice Chairman)
Lord Ramsbotham was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade, later the Royal Green Jackets and now The Rifles, in 1957, on coming down from Cambridge where he read history. He retired from the Army in the rank of General in 1993, having served in Germany, Kenya, Hong Kong, Borneo, Gibraltar and Northern Ireland as well as England. Between then and December 2001, when he was appointed Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, he was Director International Affairs in Defence Systems Ltd, a private security company concentrating on post conflict reconstruction, including demining, and also chaired the Hillingdon NHS Hospital Trust. Between 1995 and when he retired in July 2001, he visited and/or inspected every prison in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and also some in Scotland, Germany, Australia, the USA, Canada and the Carribean. In May 2005 he was appointed a crossbench member of the House of Lords, where he majors on penal reform. In 2003 he published 'Prisongate - the shocking state of Britain's prisons and the need for visionary reform. He became a Trustee of Natural Justice in 2001.
The Very Revd. Nicholas Frayling
Nicholas Frayling has been the Dean of Chichester Cathedral since 2002, after Church appointments in Liverpool and south London. A former Prison Welfare Officer, he chaired the Welfare Organisations Committee of Liverpool Council of Voluntary Service (over 60 agencies) and now chairs the Church in Society Advisory Group in the Diocese of Chichester. He has made a study of the relationship between Britain and Ireland, and his book Pardon and Peace was published in 1993. A long-serving Trustee of Natural Justice, he has been Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Charity.
Baroness Greenfield, CBE
Baroness Greenfield is Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (the first woman to hold that position) and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team investigating neurodegenerative disorders. In addition she is Director of the Oxford Centre for the Science of the Mind, exploring the physical basis of consciousness.
Her books include "The Human Brain: A Guided Tour" (1997), "The Private Life of the Brain" (2000), and "Tomorrow’s People: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel" (2003) and "'ID' - The Quest for Identity" is due to be published in May 2008 by Hodder Publishing. She has spun off four companies from her research, made a diverse contribution to print and broadcast media, and led a Government report on "Women In Science". She has received 29 Honorary Degrees, Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (2000), a non-political Life Peerage (2001) as well as the Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur (2003). In 2006 she was installed as Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University and voted 'Honorary Australian of the Year'. In 2007 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Mr. Michael Harrison
Michael Harrison is a Fellow and Diplomate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, having had a long career as Marketing Director, General Manager and Chief Executive of a number of companies, mainly in IT and Telecoms. He is currently consultant to Fujitusu at a very senior level and recently helped create the Business Development Foundation to provide organisations involved in complex contracts with a full understanding of 'best practices' in Professional Business Development. As an independent consultant, Michael carried out an 18-month contract for HM Prison Service evaluating the options for contractual relationships between individual prisons and businesses - including training provision, victim reparation, savings for release and longer term employment potential.
Mr. Andrew Robson (Treasurer)
Andrew is a chartered accountant. He has many years of experience in banking and was a Director of Robert Fleming & Co Limited and SG Hambros. He was Finance Director of the National Gallery from 1997 to 2001, and Finance Director of eFinancial Group Limited (a publishing and online recruitment business) from 2003 to 2007. He is currently a Director of JP Morgan Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc, and M & G Equity Investment Trust plc. He has his own consultancy business (First Integrity Limited), assisting small businesses. He was the Treasurer of the City Tsunami Foundation, a Charity set up to raise money in the City for the 2004 Tsunami disaster
Professor John Stein
Professor John Stein read Animal Physiology at New College, Oxford, then an MSc in Neural Control of Respiration in the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, then clinical medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He then started training in Neurology, continuing in London, Leicester and Oxford. He was appointed tutor in Medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1970.
Since then he has been studying the visual control of eye and limb movements in animals, neurological patients and dyslexic children. With Prof Mitch Glickstein (UCLondon), Prof Alan Gibson, (Barrow Neurological Inst. Phoenix) and Prof Chris Miall (Birmingham U.) he has studied the roles of the cerebellum, basal ganglia and brainstem in motor control. With Tipu Aziz, neurosurgeon, he found that deep brain stimulation can relieve both akinesia and dyskinesia by preventing spontaneous oscillations of a brainstem motor network centred on the globus pallidus and pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN). Likewise spontaneous oscillations of the pain matrix seem to cause central neuropathic pain and eliminating these by deep brain stimulation can alleviate the pain. He also studies the role of magnocellular neurones in attentional and eye control in dyslexics; and he has shown that simple visual treatments and omega-3 fish oils can improve their function and greatly improve attentional and reading progress. He doesn’t cook fish but his brother, famous TV fish chef, Rick Stein, does not do neuroscience!
Dr. Martin Wright
Martin Wright studied modern languages at the University of Oxford, and obtained a PhD in criminology at the London School of Economics in 1990. He has been librarian at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform and policy officer for Victim Support. He is a senior research fellow at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester. He was a founder member of Mediation UK, and is currently a board member of the Restorative Justice Consortium and until 2006 a member of the board of the European Forum for Victim/Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice. He is a volunteer mediator in Lambeth, south London. Publications include "Making Good: Prisons, Punishment and Beyond" (1982, reprinted 2008), "Justice for Victims and Offenders: a Restorative Response to Crime" (2nd ed. 1996), and "Restoring Respect for Justice" (1999, 2nd ed. 2008). He has an honorary diploma from the Polish Centre for Mediation, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Conflict Resolution, Bulgaria, 2005
Natural Justice Staff Information
Bernard Gesch
Bernard Gesch is Director of Natural Justice and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at Oxford University. Bernard is internationally known for his pioneering research into the links between diet and antisocial and criminal behaviour. In the late eighties he established a successful programme combining nutrition and social approaches to offending which Courts used as an alternative to imposing custodial sentences on persistent juvenile offenders. With the co-operation of the Home Office, Bernard and colleagues went on to conduct a carefully controlled clinical trial, supported by the charity Natural Justice, to test empirically if better nutrition could significantly improve the behaviour of maximum-security prisoners. It did! The publication of their work in the British Journal of Psychiatry attracted in excess of 200 positive press articles worldwide. Bernard now collaborates internationally to replicate these findings, and is honoured to work with eminent colleagues from several institutions, including the Medical Research Council, the Institute of Psychiatry, the US National Institute of Health, the Dutch Ministry of Justice and the Scottish Prison Service.
Bernard Gesch
Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics,
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK
bernard.gesch@naturaljustice.org.uk
01865 282488
Tamsin Jewell
Tamsin brings commitment to harnessing scientific knowledge for improving lives, and skills in management, policy development and advocacy, to the role of Managing Director of Natural Justice. Tamsin studied Human Sciences at St John's College, Oxford University, and also has a Master's degree in Applied Social Studies (including a social work qualification) from Green College Oxford.
Tamsin has coordinated many complex projects to successful outcomes, the most extensive of which was the Community Programme of the 2004 International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. This brought over 20,000 people living with and affected by HIV into the heart of the world's largest global health conference. Tamsin has worked with and for a very wide range of organisations in the UK and in Southeast Asia, from the smallest local charities to the largest international bureaucracies. She has organized major international conferences, held advocacy meetings with Government Ministers, researched children's growth in Kolkata slums, facilitated 'grass-roots' community consultation meetings in Thailand, managed scenario-planning workshops with Asia-Pacific Research and Development Leaders, counselled individuals in crisis, and navigated some of the most impenetrable bureaucracies. Past employers include academia, charities, local and national governments, and international organisations such as the UN and APEC.
Tamsin Jewell
Natural Justice
106-108 Cowley Road
Oxford OX4 1JE
tamsin.jewell@naturaljustice.org.uk
01865 403340
Turid Semb
Turid Semb is a research assistant at the Department of Physiology,Anatomy and Genetics, at the University of Oxford, a position which is part-funded by Natural Justice. She has a degree in Psychology, and was working in brain imaging at the University Hospital Oslo, Norway, researching psychosomatic and bipolar disorders, when a realisation that many patients were suffering from nutritional deficiencies sparked an interest in nutrition's role in the brain. She consequently returned to the UK to undertake a master's degree in Applied Human Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University. Before joining Oxford University, Turid ran a small consultancy firm providing nutritional education in schools in the UK and Norway.