Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE, Chairman
Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and Leo Baeck College, London. She became a rabbi in 1977, and served the South London Liberal Synagogue for twelve years, before going to the King’s Fund Institute as a Visiting Fellow. She was at Harvard Medical School in 1991-1992, Chairman of Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust from 1993 until 1997 and then Chief Executive of the King’s Fund, an independent health charity, until 2004. Last year she chaired the independent Commission on the Future of Volunteering, is President of Liberal Judaism and was appointed the Prime Minister’s Champion for Volunteering. She was recently appointed Chair of the One Housing Group, and she is now chair of the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board.
She was created a Life Peer in June 2004 (Liberal Democrat) and was Bloomberg Professor of Divinity at Harvard University for the Spring Semester 2006.
Christopher Bell, Ladbrokes plc
Christopher Bell was appointed as Chief Executive of Ladbrokes plc in January 2003. Chris was appointed to the Board of Ladbrokes plc (formerly Hilton plc) in June 2000. He joined Ladbrokes in 1991 and became Managing Director in 1995. Prior to that, he held a number of senior positions with Allied Domecq. He is also Vice Chairman of the Association of British Bookmakers, Chairman of the Bookmakers Committee and a member of the Horseracing Betting Levy Board. He is also a Senior Non Executive of Game plc.
Paul Bellringer, Consultant
Paul Bellringer has 27 years’ experience of working with responsible gambling issues and has been an adviser to governments, regulators and the gambling industry and a principal architect of the social responsibility codes of practice on gambling. He was the founder and first CEO of GamCare
Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Consultant Psychiatrist
Henrietta Bowden-Jones is an elected member of the Addictions Faculty Executive Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She is also the spokesperson on Problem Gambling for the College. She is the founder and Lead Clinician of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the first NHS clinic of its kind in the UK, and is employed by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust as an Addictions Psychiatrist. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London where she researched the effects of orbito-frontal cortex impairment on treatment retention in alcohol dependency. She is a Trustee of Sporting Chance Clinic, a charity for sports people addicted to drugs, alcohol and gambling.
Neil Goulden, Gala Coral
Neil Goulden is the Chairman of The Gala Coral Group having started his career as a betting office manager in 1975. He is also Chairman of the South Central (Oxfordshire - Buckinghamshire - Hampshire - Berkshire) Ambulance Service, a Non Executive Director of Marstons Plc, and a Member of the Low Pay Commission.
Richard Ives, Managing Director, Educari
Richard Ives has extensive experience of prevention and education work with children and young people, especially in relation to illegal drugs and alcohol. He runs the company, educari, which has produced educational resources on, for example, drug and substance abuse. Richard has carried out an evaluation of the Gamble Aware website.
Alan Jamieson, Executive Consultant
Now an Executive Consultant, Alan began his career in industry moving via the Public service and the City to the Third Sector as a Regional Officer for Relate, Director of the National Aids Helpline, and most recently Deputy CEO of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). He has extensive experience in the creation, management, development and funding of service delivery organisations. He has also served as an Expert Advisor to various governments, regulators, commerce, the European Commission, WHO, and so on, on treatment and public education models in relation to public and mental health and well-being strategies. He served as a member of the former Responsibility in Gambling Trust and chaired the RIGT Services & Treatment Panel. He is a member and Fellow of the BACP.
David Miers, Professor of Law
David Miers is Professor of Law at Cardiff Law School. He has a long-standing research interest in and has published extensively about the regulation of commercial gambling. He is regularly consulted by government and the regulatory bodies and in 2003/04 was a Special Adviser to the Joint Committee on the Draft Gambling Bill.
Gerda Reith, Professor of Social Science
Gerda Reith is Professor of Social Science and Director of the Gambling Research Group at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in the development of different types of gambling behaviour, and on the implications of these for public health and policy.
Eleanor Roaf, Consultant in Public Health
Eleanor Roaf was appointed to the Strategy Board in June 2009. She is a consultant in public health with NHS Manchester and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. She has 20 years' NHS experience and was Director of Public Health for North Manchester Primary Care Trust from 2002-2006. Her background is in social science and research. She has worked extensively on safeguarding children and on reducing health inequalities.