The Board of Trustees

	Dr. Frank Margison (Chair) Dr. Frank Margison is a consultant psychiatrist specialising in psychotherapy. He works in Gaskell Psychotherapy Centre for Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, and also works independently preparing reports for the Family Court on parenting. Until recently he was medical director of the Trust with responsibility for clinical governance and risk management. He has been involved with Freedom from Torture for some years and was involved in setting up the Freedom from Torture North West centre in Manchester.
	Daniel Dayan (Vice-Chair) Daniel Dayan is Chief Executive of Fiberweb plc, a manufacturing business with 2,000 employees working in 16 plants across 8 countries. He has eight years experience at chief executive level in two companies and prior to that, worked as director of corporate development, as a management consultant and as director of finance. He has been a committed supporter of Freedom from Torture for several years and has experience in volunteer fundraising
	Simon Erskine (Treasurer) Simon Erskine is a not-for-profit auditor and accountant with over 35 years experience of charities. He helped found specialist not-for-profit accounting firm Gotham Erskine which came top in the latest Charity Finance audit survey for commitment to charities and technical competence. A charity trustee for over 30 years he has been trustee of Freedom from Torture for over 20 years, and Treasurer for most of that time.
	Dick Oosting Dick Oosting is chief executive of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a think tank focusing on EU foreign policy. His many years of experience working in human rights and refugee organizations in different countries started in the 1970s when he co-ordinated Amnesty International’s first campaign against torture. Prior to joining ECFR in 2009 he spent ten years in Brussels heading Amnesty’s EU office and managing the Europe programme of the International Centre for Transitional Justice.
	Kath Abrahams Kath Abrahams joins Breakthrough Breast Cancer as their Director of Fundraising from March 2011 after 12 years at NSPCC on the fundraising team. During this time she was Development Director for Volunteer-led Fundraising from 2007 to 2011 and Campaign Manager on the FULL STOP Appeal from 2002 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 she was Director of Fundraising for ChildLine following the merger of the NSPCC with ChildLine. Prior to joining the NSPCC, Kath was General Manager of the Bloomsbury Theatre in London.
	Dame Jane Roberts Dame Jane Roberts is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, working clinically in paediatric liaison services at the Whittington Hospital in London as well as in NHS management previously as Medical Director, and Director of Quality and Performance for NHS Islington. She has had a parallel career in local government serving until 2006 as a Camden councillor including five years as leader of the council. She has an interest in education and parenting issues and is a non-executive director of Ofsted and Chair of Parenting UK.
	Susan Munroe Susan Munroe is Director of Nursing and Patient Services at Marie Curie Cancer Care, responsible for both a UK-wide home nursing service and 11 hospices. She trained and worked as a nurse and district nursing sister in Scotland before working in Uganda for a year. After four more years as a ward sister and a year as a community liaison officer she has held a number of service management posts in the health sector. She has a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA).
	Peter Atfield Peter Atfield is HR Director at CLIC Sargent, a charity with 370 staff and 1,500 volunteers. Prior to that he was HR Director at Amnesty International's International Secretariat, and at ChildLine for seven years. He is also a chair of school governors and chair of Harrow Association for Voluntary Service, and has been a member of a number of committees in the voluntary and community sectors. He is currently a trustee and member of the steering group of the Charities HR Network. During a sabbatical he worked as a development officer for Age Concern Brent and volunteered as a researcher for an MP.
	Professor Sir Nigel Rodley Professor Sir Nigel Rodley has been a member of the UN Human Rights Committee since 2001, having served as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture from 1993 to 2001.Knighted in 1998 for services to human rights and international law, he is a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists. Sir N igel has taught law at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre since 1990; he was appointed Professor of Law in 1994 and was Dean of Law from 1992 to 1995. In 2008, he was elected Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.
	Lady Alison Kelly Lady Kelly works for the Audit Commission as an inspector of local public services and as strategy advisor for governance and accountability, with particular responsibility for assessment of public body governance of equalities, diversity and human rights. She has extensive experience in adult and community education and advocacy for children with special educational needs. A long-term supporter of Freedom from Torture, she joined the Board in March 2008.