David Burns

David is on the board of RPH Capital Management.  He had previously worked with Schroders as Managing Director of the company’s office in Bermuda. Prior to joining Schroders, he worked for Kleinwort Benson in the City of London, and the Chase Manhattan Bank in both London and New York.  His main experience in the charity sector has been with United Way in the US and with the Hackney Schools’ Mentoring programme in the UK.  In Bermuda he co-founded, with the Bermuda Sloop Foundation, the “Windreach on the Water” project which gives disadvantaged and handicapped children the opportunity to sail.

Katie Razzall

Katie is a presenter with Channel 4 news. She joined ITN in 1998 after time as a press officer in Parliament and was soon an award-winning producer, as a journalist she covers everything from social exclusion to business and foreign affairs.

Andie Lambe

Andie was the founding director of Reprieve, the human rights charity, and now sits as a board member. Following this, she took up a position at the Howard League for Penal Reform, focusing on the plight of children and young people in the criminal justice system. She is now working with Global Witness, working to break the links between natural resources, corruption and conflict.

Brenda Campbell

Brenda is a human rights and criminal barrister, with a particular interest in representing young people and those with mental health problems.  She has significant experience representing those who are unfit to plead and/or cannot effectively participate in their trial. For further information on her practice and work click here.

Tim Gage

Tim joined JfK Law as the Treasurer in 2010. Tim is a Chartered Accountant and has worked at Cable and Wireless and British Standards Institution. He has held the position of Finance Director with a number of small and medium sized high growth businesses. He is currently carrying out research at the CASS business school towards an MSc in Charity Accounting and Financial Management.

Ronan McCrea

Ronan lectures in EU law and public law at University College London. He is a former judicial clerk at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and a former Legal Officer of the Refugee Legal Centre in London. He is also a member of the bars of Ireland and England and Wales and completed pupillage at Matrix Chambers in London. He also worked as associate counsel (voluntary) at the Brennan Center for Justice in New York.

Leigh Smyth

Managing Director of Race Online 2012, Leigh is responsible for running the digital champion Martha Lane Fox's campaign to forge a truly networked nation, where everyone can use the web, in the UK. She joined from the Home Access programme, a £240M government scheme to get computers and connectivity to 270,000 low-income families (500,000 children) which was launched in January 2010. Previously most of her career has been in blue-chip retailers, including Dixon, Kingfisher, Sears and Arcadia groups.

Sally Ireland

Sally is the Principal Policy Adviser at the Children's Rights Office of the Children's Commissioner. Before this appointment she was the director of criminal justice policy at Justice. She is a barrister and the chair of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice.

Carolyn Regan

Carolyn is currently Interim Managing Director of the West London Clinical Commissioning Consortium. She has 25 years experience of working for the NHS in a variety of roles. She was Chief Executive of the Legal Services Commission from 2006 until 2010. She also has experience of working in the not-for-profit sector, most recently as Chief Executive of the Children's Legal Centre. In 2010 Carolyn undertook freelance work for UNICEF, including advising the Vietnamese government on child protection services and systems.