Commissioner interests, gifts and hospitality

Interests

• Trustee: Nuffield Foundation (Principal activity is funding research and innovation in education, justice, and welfare).
• Chair: Nuffield Foundation Finance Committee.
• Chair: Nuffield Foundation Steering Group on Inequalities in the 21st Century.
• Chair: Nuffield Foundation Steering Group on Children’s Information Project.
• Member: Nuffield Foundation Investment Committee.
• Member: Nuffield Foundation Audit and Risk Committee.
• Director: Great Culverden Park Limited (principal activity is management of an area of woodland).
• Director: John Pullinger Limited (principal activity is professional advice).
• Advisor: World Bank Group (principal activity is reducing poverty and building shared prosperity in developing countries).
• Advisor: Office for National Statistics (Principal activity is UK National Statistical Institute) ended October 2022.
• Member of External Honours Panel: Royal Statistical Society (principal activity is as a Professional Body).
• Board member: Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (Principal activity is acting as a network supporting the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals), ended June 2022.
• President: International Association for Official Statistics (principal activity is improving fficial statistics) ended July 2021.
• Chair of Oversight Group on Location Data Ethics: Geospatial Commission (principal activity is setting and promoting the UK geospatial strategy) ended June 2022.
• Member of External Honours Panel: Royal Statistical Society (principal activity is as a Professional body).
• Governor: National Institute for Economic and Social Research.
• Visiting Professor: Imperial College, London.
• Advisor for Parliament of Ukraine: Westminster Foundation for Democracy (Principal activity is strengthening parliamentary democracy around the world). From July 2022 ended September 2022.
• Chair: High Level Steering Group: Better Lives 2030 Conference Zambia, April 2023

Interests

• Chair: Kirklees Cultural Education Trust (Pro bono) Non-Executive Director on both the Whittington Health Trust and the University College London Hospital Trust ended 2021.
• Non-Executive Director on both Whittington Health Trust and the University College London Hospital Trust ended 2021.
• Director, New Ing Consulting (mentoring and technical assessment work with Local Government Chief Executives), remunerated.

Previous

• Chief Executive of Kirklees MBC (2004-2010) and Doncaster MBC (2010-2011)
• Implementation Director for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Sept 2013-March 2014), remunerated.
• Chair of Rotherham Improvement Board (Sept 2014-March 2015), remunerated.
• Advisor to Tower Hamlets Council on governance and decision making issues (May-Oct 2015), remunerated.
• NED on the UCL Hospital Trust Board since 2021.

Interests

• SSE plc – Non-Executive Director (Remunerated) 2017.
• Electoral Commission RemCo Chair 2018- NomCo member.
• University of Strathclyde – Convenor of Court, pro bono.
• RSNO – Chair, pro bono, 2017.
• National Trust for Scotland: Independent Chair of Nominations Committee, pro bono, retired 2022.
• Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools – Advisor, pro bono, retired 2021.
• Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh – Member, pro bono.
• The Prince’s Foundation: Trustee, appointed to Chair in September 2021, unenumerated.
• Bruce Consultancy Service Ltd Declared in 2017 and declared winding up in 2021.
• Deputy Lieutenant - The City of Edinburgh.
• Retired from the National Trust for Scotland as Independent Chair of the Nominations Committee.
• Appointed by Scottish Ministers as Independent Chair of the Review of Inspection, Regulation and Scrutiny of Social care in Scotland.
• Elected Treasurer of the Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh.

Interests

• Member Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
• Member Advisory Board Safefood (all-Ireland body/food safety promotion including research, scientific co-operation, safety assessment and diet related disease)
• Member Panel European Mediators (Conciliation Resources/MediatEUr)
• Membership of an Advisory Group to the Northern Ireland Justice Minister on Tracking Paramiliarism.
• Practitioner and governance consultant (conflict management and resolution), 2017-present.
• Consultant to SDLP, January 2020-January 2021.
• Declaration of financial interest – undertaking research on general policing issues and undertaking research on issues which come before the Northern Ireland Policing Board (NIPB) and its committees in connection with the role of a member of the NIPB. 
• Member of the Electoral Commission for Ireland (“An Coimisiún Toghchain”)

Interests

• Member of Consumer Engagement Group of UK Power Networks, remunerated, ended 31 January 2022
• Vice Chair of Greenhouse Sports, a charity, pro bono.
• Panel Member Competition & Markets Authority until 30 June 2018, remunerated. 
• Panel Member Judicial Appointments Commission (Remunerated)
• Chair of Legal Services Consumer Panel 2021, remunerated. 
• Chair Renewable Energy Consumer Code Applications Panel, remunerated.
• Member of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator, remunerated.
• Member of Civil Aviation Authority Consumer Panel until 31 October 2018, remunerated.
• Reappointed pensions regulator second term 2022.
• Member of the Consumer Advisory Group of the Association of British Insurers, unremunerated
• Consumer Expert Panel member for the Office of Rail and Road

Interests

• Member, House of Lords, remunerated.
• Member of the Conservative Party
• Chair, Digital and Communications Select Committee ceased as of 20 January 2022.
• Principal, Stephen Gilbert Consulting 30 April 2021, remunerated.
• Member, Executive Committee, BGIPU.
• Chair, Audit Committee, BGIPU. 
• Joint pre-legislative Scrutiny Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill ceased on 11 December 2022.
• Select Committee on the Fraud Act and Digital Fraud, January 2022 to October 2022 ceased.
• Member of the following All Party Parliamentary Groups: General Aviation, LGBT + Rights, Hospitality and Events in Wales, Singapore, Taiwan, ITV, Channel 4, BBC.
• Member of the Industry and Regulators Select Committee of the House of Lords. 

Interests

• Membership of the Scottish National Party.
• Sibling is a sitting Councillor for Scottish National Party.

Interests

• Commissioner Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, ended June 2022, remunerated.
• Chair Northern Ireland Committee British Council (Not remunerated) ended July 2022
• Employed by Commission for Victims and Survivors Northern Ireland.
• Member of the Executive Council of the Belfast Jewish Community, unremunerated.
• Social Partner on the Ards and North Down Borough Council Peace IV Partnership ended.
• Police Service Northern Ireland External Reference Group member
• British Council: Member of the Board of Trustees

Interests

• Non-Executive Board member of BFI Big Screen Ltd. 
• Non-Executive Director and Member for Wales of the BBC Unitary Board (July 2017-July 2020) (Reappointed until July 2023) This appointment includes being Chair of the Wales Nations Committee.
• Chair of the BBC Commercial Holdings.
• Member of Northern Ireland Nations Committee.
• Chair of the Welsh Government's Public Leaders Forum
• Chair of Nominations Committee for High Sheriff in Counties of Carmarthen, Ceredigion and Pembroke Unremunerated.
• Deputy Lieutenant for the three counties of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion.
• Trustee Strata Florida Trust, charitable organisation to enhance interest in the Cistercian abbey of Strata Florida.
• Pro-Chancellor Aberystwyth University, Member of the University Court, and Professor Emerita.
• Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Interests

• Chair of the Frazzled Café Mental Health Charity.
• Vice Chair of Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council.
• Trustee of Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
• Chair of Mindfulness Initiatives International Network.
• Board Member of Mindfulness Wales.
• Hon President All Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness.
• Member of the Labour Party. 
• Spouse works part time for a Member of Parliament.

Interests

• Regional Director for London and National Lead on Discrimination Independent Office for Police Conduct.
• Advisory Board Member: Tell MAMA, voluntary.
• National Chair of Ethnic Minorities into Leadership Conference: FDA, voluntary.
• Member of Spectrum Speakers.

Interests

• Together Housing – Risk & Audit Committee Member
• Member of the Advisory panel for the Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation into social care for the Scottish Government.