Membership

The Lord Chancellor appoints the members of the Advisory Council. Members are appointed because they have skills and experience relevant to the work of the council. They are not paid.

As an advisory Non Departmental Public Body, the Advisory Council adheres to the Code of Practice set out by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Read the Code of Practice for public appointments for further details.

Members 2009

CHAIRMAN: Rt Hon Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls

Sir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG, Retired, formerly British Ambassador to Moscow, Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee

Ms Else Churchill, Genealogy Officer of the Society of Genealogists

Professor Harry Dickinson, Emeritus Professor of British History, University of Edinburgh

Dr Jeevan Deol, Lecturer in South Asian History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

Rt Hon the Viscount De L'Isle MBE, DL. Owner of the De L'Isle and Sidney family papers at the Centre for Kentish Studies and Penshurst Place

Sir David Durie KCMG, Retired, formerly Governor and Commander in Chief of Gibraltar

Dr Clive Field OBE, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, formerly Director of Scholarship and Collections at the British Library

Ms Christine Gifford, Information Rights expert and Founding Director of Public Partners and Gifford Owen

Dr Jennifer Haynes, Archives and Manuscripts Manager at the Wellcome Library

Mr Graeme Herd, Head of Information Technology at Slough Borough Council

Professor Arthur Lucas CBE, Emeritus Professor of Science Curriculum Studies at, and was formerly Principal of, Kings College London

Ms Catherine Maxwell Stuart, Owner of the private family and estate archive at Traquair House, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire

Professor Heidi Mirza, Professor of Equalities Studies in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London

Professor Michael Moss, Professor of Archival Studies at the University of Glasgow

Rt Hon the Lord Roper, Formerly Chief Whip for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords. Representative of the Liberal Democrats

Ms Janet Smith, County Archivist of Hampshire

Mr Ian Soutar, Formerly British Ambassador to Bulgaria and Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva

Ms Stephanie Williams, Author, Journalist and user of archives