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Baroness Ruth Deech
Chair

Baroness Deech lectured in law at Oxford University for many years before being elected Principal of St Anne's College 1991-2004.  She is now Gresham Professor of Law. She has extensive experience of regulatory bodies, having served as Chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (1994-2002), a Governor of the BBC (2002-2006) and as the first Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (2004-08 ). She is an independent member of the House of Lords.

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
Vice Chair

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC is a senior silk with a broad practice in Common Law work. He is internationally known for his work at the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague where he led the prosecution against Slobodan Milosevic. He sits as a Recorder, is a Bencher of Inner Temple, and is former head of 1 Temple Garden. He has been active in the development of advocacy teaching, and has lectured widely.
 
Rolande Anderson
Lay Member

Rolande is a Director of Genesis Housing, where she chairs the Remuneration Committee of the Board and the Diversity Committee. She is also a trustee of Brightside, an education charity, President of the Associates of Newnham College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Rolande has previously been Director-General for the Office for Civil Society at the Cabinet Office and Director-General for Transformation and Corporate Services at the Office for National Statistics.
 
Rob Behrens
Lay Member

Rob is Independent Adjudicator and Chief Executive of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education in England and Wales, appointed in 2008. Before this he was Complaints Commissioner to the Bar Standards Board (2006-2008). He has also held various positions within the UK Civil Service, including Director of the South Africa Development Unit and the International Public Service Group within the Cabinet Office and Secretary to the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Rob is a Trustee of the Fort Hare University Foundation, UK.

Sarah Clarke
Barrister Member

Sarah spent the first ten years of her career at the self employed Bar, where she focussed on financial crime and confiscation. She then spent six years as an in-house counsel in the Enforcement Division of the Financial Services Authority where she advised on and conducted regulatory proceedings and insider dealing prosecutions. In 2011, Sarah returned to private practice at 3. Serjeants Inn where she continues to specialise in financial crime and regulatory and disciplinary proceedings.  Sarah is an experienced lecturer on financial regulation and fraud and also conducts advocacy training at a national and international level..
 
Dr Malcolm Cohen
Lay Member

Malcolm is an experienced chief executive in the international manufacturing industry. He has a BSc in microbiology from the University of London and a PhD in Immunology from the University of Cambridge. He is also an Associate of the Institute of Financial Accountants.
 
Since 1992, Malcolm has been Magistrate in Barnet. He sits on Adult and Youth Courts and has recently been appointed to the Family Proceedings Court. He is also a member of the Barnet Safer Communities Partnership Board and Domestic Violence Strategic Board.

Previous positions include the Finance Director and Chairman of BLP Plc Group and the Director of the China and Britain Business Council. 

Paula Diggle 
Lay Member

Paula Diggle is the Treasury Officer of Accounts. She is responsible in the Treasury for advice on ethical standards in the use of public funds. Over her civil service career, mostly in the Treasury, she has also worked in regulation of financial services and control of public expenditure. 

Simon Lofthouse QC
Barrister Member

Simon was educated at Fernwood Comprehensive School in Nottingham and later studied law at University College London. He was called to the Bar in 1988, appointed a Recorder in 2003 and as Queen's Counsel in 2006. As a Recorder he sits on the Midland circuit in crime, civil, private family and public family law. He became Chairman of the BSB's Complaints Committee upon appointment to the Board in January 2011, having previously been a Vice Chairman of the Complaints Committee since 2008. He was a prosecutor for the BSB and a member of the Bar Professional Conduct Committee prior to that. He has also been a member of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Commercial Bar Association for many years.

Matthew Nicklin
Barrister Member

Matthew Nicklin practises in media and defamation law at 5 Raymond Buildings in London. He was educated at Tasker Milward School in Haverfordwest before graduating from Newcastle University with a First Class degree in Law. Matthew was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1993. He was awarded an Inns of Court Pegasus Scholarship to Sydney in 1998 spending time with one of Australia's leading law firms, Mallesons Stephen Jaques and also at the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Before appointment to the BSB, Matthew was one of Lincoln's Inn's representatives on the Bar Council. Until December 2007, he was Vice-Chairman of the Bar Representation Committee of Lincoln's Inn. Matthew is one of the authors of Oxford University Press's "The Law of Privacy and the Media". 

Tim Robinson
Lay Member

Tim is a qualified chartered accountant who has moved into consultancy after an impressive career as Human Resources Manager at Price Waterhouse Coopers and as HR and Corporate Services Partner at Accenture. He was a member of the Accenture UK/Ireland Board leading the infrastructure transformation and culture change associated with its transition from partnership to a public company. 

Patricia Robertson QC
Barrister Member

Patricia Robertson QC was called to the Bar in 1988 and practises at Fountain Court Chambers. She has a broad commercial and civil practice, focusing in particular on banking and financial services litigation, professional negligence, regulation of financial and legal services and mediation. She is a co-author of the Guide to the Legal Services Act (Butterworths, 2009) and her other publications include chapters on Fund Managers and on Expert Witnesses in Professional Negligence and Liability (ed Simpson, Informa, Looseleaf), and chapters on Plastic Money and on Internet Payments in The Law of Bank Payments (eds. Brindle & Cox, 3rd Ed., Sweet and Maxwell). She was a member of the Alternative Business Structures (ABS) working group of the BSB and is currently a member of the Entity Regulation Working Group. Patricia is also involved in equality and diversity issues, acting as one of her chambers' two equality officers.

Professor Andrew Sanders
Lay Member

Andrew is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Birmingham where he is also the Head of the School of Law. He is currently a member of the Criminal Justice Council, which advises the Secretary of State for Justice on matters of policy, and a Trustee of Regents College (a not-for-profit Higher Education College). He is Chair of the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools in England and Wales.

Sam Stein QC
Barrister Member

Sam Stein studied law at the Polytechnic of the South Bank (now the London South Bank University) before being called to the Bar in 1988. Sam took silk in 2009. Sam is a criminal practitioner and a member of Dyers Chambers and Westgate Chambers.  Sam is the Chair of the BSB Quality Assurance Committee, the Pupillage Sub-Committee and a member of the Education and Training Committee, Pupillage Review and the Joint Advocacy Group. He is also a trained advocacy assessor for the Crown Prosecution Services and an advocacy trainer for the Inner Temple.

He was elected Inner Temple Bencher Trinity 2011. 

Richard Thompson OBE
Lay Member

Richard served as a short service commissioned officer in the Royal Green Jackets for ten years before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989. He held a number of posts at home and abroad, which included postings to Stockholm, Geneva, Pristina and Baghdad. In 2007 he was appointed Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), which delivers armed policing protective services to the Civil Nuclear Industry. He read Law at Exeter University and studied at Harvard Business School.

Dr Anne Wright CBE
Lay Member

Anne is the Chair and Commissioner of the National Lottery Commission, where she also is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Regulating with Excellence Reference Group. Her former non-executive roles include Chair of the School Teachers Review Body and member of the Board of English Partnerships and the Armed Forces Pay Review Body. Her former executive posts include Chief Executive of the Ufi/learndirect and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sunderland.