David Shutt OBE (Lord Shutt of Greetland)

David Shutt, Chair of the Trust from 2007 and Vice-Chair from 1989 to 2005, is also a Trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Chair of their Power and Responsibility Committee. David is a chartered accountant based in Halifax and a Quaker. A former Mayor of Calderdale, with long experience as a Liberal Democrat Councillor, he has been a parliamentary candidate in every election between 1970 and 1992.  He was founder and Chair of Calderdale Community Foundation and has represented JRRT on the boards of companies in which it has invested.  He was appointed a life peer in 2000 and made Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords in 2005.

Dr Christopher Greenfield

The Vice-Chair since 2006 and former member of the Trust staff, Christopher worked in Parliament, and then stood for Parliament (on behalf of the Liberal Party) on three occasions in the 1970s.  He is a qualified teacher, but served for four years as Quaker Middle East Secretary in the 1980s.  He then became Headmaster of a Quaker school in North Somerset for eleven years before taking up his present position as Principal of an International College in Dorset. He has served as an elected member of four local authorities.

Mandy Cormack

Mandy Cormack's career and interests span national and international public and corporate affairs. Having grown up in a Liberal household, Mandy studied International Relations at the London School of Economics. Business Administration at Harvard followed, after which Mandy combined working on corporate communication, research and venture capital projects with building the Liberal Democrat’s regional media network in the run up to the 1992 General Election. After working in public affairs, Mandy joined Unilever in 1996, leading the review of the company’s approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and producing Unilever’s first Social Review in 2000. In 2003 she was made Head of Corporate Relations – London. Mandy has been a Board Director of Business for Social Responsibility since 2003.

Dr Peadar Cremin

Peadar Cremin works in the field of teacher education. Based in Ireland, he has been involved with innovation in teacher education in a range of European counties and has researched development and environmental issues in Africa and in Latin America. Peadar is a former Chair of the development agency, 80:20, Educating and Acting for a Better World, and has also been a member of the Ireland Committee of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. He is currently Chair of Ireland Aid's Development Education Advisory Committee and is a member of the Board of the Irish Peace Institute. 

Tina Day

Tina Day has worked as an academic, education administrator and for national organisations representing the interests of academics, consumers and local authorities. Tina also has extensive experience of health issues and is a trained teacher and qualified counsellor. Tina is a Quaker and has recently returned from sabbatical in New Zealand.

Pam Giddy

Born in Coventry, Pam studied Law at the LSE. Her first job was with Charter88, in 1990, where she launched the Violations of Rights series of publications. She left to join Cosmopolitan magazine in 1993 as Careers and News Editor and then moved to BBC Newsnight where she worked as a producer, looking after its political coverage and launching a series of films exploring issues of social exclusion. In March 1999 she rejoined Charter88 as the new and first female Director, launching a number of initiatives, including a major campaign for reform of the House of Lords. She remained with Charter88 until the birth of her first child in 2001. In November 2004 Pam launched the POWER Inquiry to understand why the decline in popular participation and involvement in formal politics has occurred and to provide concrete and innovative proposals to reverse the trend. Pam is also a member of the Ofcom Content Board.