The Revd Professor Richard A. Burridge
Dean of King’s College London and Professor of Biblical Interpretation.
Prof Burridge was originally a classicist and schoolmaster before being ordained in 1985. Before coming to King’s he was Lazenby Chaplain at the University of Exeter, where he also taught New Testament and Ethics. Richard Burridge has written several books on Jesus and the Gospels (including What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, revised edition 2004) and a commentary on John, reissued for the 2008 Lambeth Conference. Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics (2007), looks at how New Testament ethics should be interpreted in the light of his argument that the Gospels are biographies of Jesus, using South African apartheid as a case study. In January 2009 Imitating Jesus was shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey Prize.
Professor Malcolm D. Evans, OBE (Chairman)
Malcolm Evans is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol. His areas of specialism include the international law of the sea and international human rights protection. His particular areas of interest concern torture and torture prevention and the protection of religious liberty under international law. He is a member of the OSCE ODIHR Advisory Council on the Freedom of Religion or Belief, and of the UK FCO Advisory Panel on Torture. He is also a member of the International Law Association Committee on Human Rights Law and Practice and of the Board of Management of the NGO, Association for the Prevention of Torture. He is also Deputy Chair of the Governing Body of Regent’s Park College, Oxford.
Major published works include: Religious Liberty and International Law in Europe (CUP. 1997), Preventing Torture (OUP, 1998), Protecting Prisoners (ed) (OUP, 1999), Combating Torture in Europe (Council of Europe, 2002), International Law (ed) (OUP, 2003,2006) Manual on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Public Areas (Council of Europe/Brill, 2009).
The Reverend Canon Dr Hueston Finlay
Warden, St George’s House
The Reverend Dr Hueston Finlay read Engineering and Theology at Trinity College, Dublin and pursued his doctoral studies at the University of London. Following ordination, he worked in the cathedral parish of St. Canice in the County of Kilkenny. He then moved to Cambridge when appointed Curate to the University Church and Chaplain to Girton College. More recently he has served as Dean of Chapel, Director of Studies in Theology, and Tutor at Magdalene College Cambridge. He has also held an Affiliated Lectureship at the University of Cambridge, where he taught doctrine. He was appointed a Canon of St George's Chapel in 2004 and Warden of St George's House in 2008.
Professor Alan Michette
Professor of Physics at King’s College London.
Alan did his PhD in Particle Physics at University College London. After a postdoctoral appointment at UCL he spent four years at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory before joining Queen Elizabeth College, London as a lecturer, at which point he changed to his current research field of X-Ray Physics. Following the merger of the colleges he moved to King’s, where he has been ever since apart from a sabbatical in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. In addition to his main research interests, he is the UK instigator of a project to place cosmic ray detectors in local schools with the aim of allowing pupils and teachers the opportunity to be involved in real research – science by application.
Dr Farhan Nizami, CBE
Farhan Nizami CBE (D.Phil.Oxon) is The Prince of Wales Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford and Founder Director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. Founder Editor of the Journal of Islamic Studies (OUP, 1990-); Series Editor, Makers of Islamic Civilization (OUP, 2004-). Specialises in Muslim social and intellectual history. Chairman, Council of Wilton Park; Member: Advisory Board, Duke University’s DISC; Court, Oxford Brookes University and Christian Muslim Forum, Lambeth Palace.
Dr Richard Ough
Dr Richard Ough's career has embraced medicine, the law and business. As an English Barrister, he holds the distinction of addressing the American Bar Association and having his legal textbook on injunctions (published by Butterworths) cited by the US Supreme Court. As a young doctor he was physician to the Stratford Festival in Ontario and provided the inspiration for a portrayal of (Dr) Cornelius in Cymbeline. He now works as a Consulting Medical Director, contributing to the delivery of health care in one of the most deprived areas of the UK, Tower Hamlets, and has been been appointed an examiner for the MRCGP examination (iMAP). He is a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School and was for a time attached in a medical capacity to a Military Intelligence unit. He has been involved with Cumberland Lodge since 1996.
HH Judge Daniel Pearce-Higgins, QC
Circuit Judge, Worcester Combined Court Centre.
Judge Pearce-Higgins studied Philosophy and Politics at Bristol University, followed by legal studies in London and then practiced as a Barrister in London for 30 years before his appointment to the Circuit Bench in 2004. He sits in Crime, Family and Civil work and also on the Mental Health Tribunal. He is a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Aside from his family and his work his interests include Hereford Cattle, music, films and current affairs.
Iain Reid, MA FRSA
Arts Consultant
Iain has worked in the arts all his working life, initially as an actor having trained at RADA and then in administration and education. He was Director of the Arts Programme for the UK branch of the Gulbenkian Foundation working in all art forms with a particular emphasis on new and innovative projects. In 1989 he became Director of Arts Development at the Arts Council of England, and then Director of Combined Arts covering festivals, arts centres, new media and developing art forms.
In 1998 he took up the post of Dean of the Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd) in Chiswick which uniquely offered degrees in Acting and Musical Theatre as well as running a specialist arts focussed Sixth Form, and a school for 11- 16 year olds. Following his retirement he is now an arts consultant, acting as Vice Principal at Rose Bruford College for six months, and undertaking a review of the National Student Drama Festival.
Dr Hilary Richards
Sub Dean and Faculty Tutor at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University College, London.
Dr Richards studied for her PhD in Microbial Genetics at The Royal Postgraduate Medical School attached to the Hammersmith Hospital, London and continued there for a further 3 years as an MRC funded Post-Doctoral Fellow. She has a long standing interest in the microbiology and molecular genetics of bacteria and their plasmids. In particular, she has worked on antibiotic and heavy metal resistance genes in both Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria; the biology of Streptomyces plasmids and their development as plasmid vectors and gene transfer in the environment.
Revd Ruth Scott
Ruth Scott is an Anglican priest, writer and broadcaster. She works in the fields of conflict transformation and interfaith relations. She is a well-known presenter of Pause for Thought on Radio 2''s Wake up to Wogan show. She has recently written her 3rd book, Give a Boy a Gun, with one of her colleagues, Alistair Little, an ex-Loyalist paramilitary. Through his story they explore issues around violent conflict. She also lectures and runs workshops nationally and internationally on a wide variety of subjects. As a Churchill Fellow, Ruth spent six weeks in 2009 in Israel and the West Bank researching transformative friendships across conflict divides.
Three days a week she works as the Chaplain of Christ's Comprehensive School, Richmond. She loves swimming, cycling, going to the theatre, reading and listening to the radio. She is married to Chris and has two children, Freya and Tian. In her spare time she eats fire.
Professor Graham Smith
Head of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton.
Professor Smith has research and teaching interests in three broad areas: democratic theory and practice; environmental politics; and the third sector. His most recent book is Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation (Cambridge University Press, 2009). A visit to Cumberland Lodge was integral to his decision to study for a PhD and he continues to organise an annual weekend conference for postgraduate students from Southampton.
