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Board members and Chief Executive

This page contains short biographies of each of IPSA's Board members and Chief Executive.​

Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, IPSA Chairman 

 

Professor Sir Ian KennedySir Ian is a lawyer who, for the past few decades, has lectured and written on the law and the ethics of healthcare. He is also Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University College of London and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He has been involved in public life for 25 years, earning a reputation for safeguarding the interests of members of the public in healthcare. He was Chairman of the Healthcare Commission, the health services public watchdog, from its creation in 2004 until its abolishment in 2009. During his time at the Commission, Sir Ian worked to improve standards across the NHS through access to information and knowledge for patients, clinicians and managers. He is, perhaps, best known as the leader of the public enquiry into the deaths in children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (1998–2001). This report contributed to the establishment of the Healthcare Commission in 2002. He also chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and is currently Chair of the UK Research Integrity Office, whose remit covers the proper conduct of research in universities and other research organisations.

 
Sir Neil Butterfield, Board Member
 

Neil Butterfield was called to the Bar in 1966, became a QC in 1985 and was the Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit from 1997-2000. He served as a High Court Judge sitting in the Queen’s Bench Division from 1995-2012. At the request of the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and the Attorney General in 2003 he conducted a Review of Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions conducted by HM Customs and Excise. He is a member of the Parole Board, to which he was appointed in 2003 and of which he became Vice-Chairman in 2004.

 

Elizabeth Padmore, Board Member
 

Liz Padmore has been Chairman of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2010. She is a Director of Youth Business International, where she also serves on the audit committee and chairs the accreditation committee; a trustee and member of the finance and general management committee of Women for Women International and a trustee and member of the finance and general purposes committee of the Ditchley Foundation. She is a co-founder and a member of the Global Board of Enablis, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to creating a viable SME sector in Africa and South America. She was previously on the Council of Chatham House; a Director of National Australia Group Europe and Clydesdale Bank plc and on the advisory board of IMD Business School (Lausanne). She has also previously worked for eleven years for Accenture, including from 2001-2006 as a Partner and Global Director for Policy and Corporate Affairs.  


Anne Whitaker, Board Member

 

Anne Whitaker has served as a non-executive director and then Chair of Whipps Cross University NHS Trust: following the creation by merger of Barts Health NHS Trust she was appointed as a non-executive director of the new Trust and is chair of the remuneration committee. She was an audit partner for Ernst & Young, specialising in financial services, for twelve years. She was also Head of Audit for Financial Services at Ernst & Young from 2000 to 2004. Her voluntary sector interests include working with YourStory in Lambeth, an organisation which provides help in employment, criminal justice, education and sports and personal development and the MicroLoan Foundation, a microfinance organisation operating in Malawi, helping clients to build businesses.


Professor Tony Wright, Board Member

 

Tony Wright was MP for Cannock and Burntwood, later Cannock Chase, from 1992-2010. During his Parliamentary career he served as Chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee and of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons. Since retiring from the House in 2010 he has been appointed Visiting Professor in Government and Public Policy at University College London and as a Professorial Fellow in Politics at Birkbeck College. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.

 
Andrew McDonald, Chief Executive

 

Andrew McDonaldAndrew was appointed by the Speaker in September 2009. He was previously the chief executive of Government Skills, the Sector Skills Council for central government and the Armed Forces. He has been a civil servant for the past twenty years and has undertaken a range of policy and operational roles including the delivery of a construction project, leading a new agency at its start-up and running the constitutional reform programme. Andrew spent 2005-6 on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley where he wrote a book on constitutional reform and national identity.

 
   
 

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Folder: Expenses for IPSA Board and senior staff (including grade F and above)
  
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2013-01-13 - Board and Senior Team - what and when we publish.pdf
  
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2013-01-13 - Board and Senior Team annual salary.pdf
  
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