Transparency data

BFEG members' register of interests

Updated 16 August 2024

1. Professor Mark Watson-Gandy

Barrister in private practice at Three Stone Chambers

Declaration of interests:

• Barrister – Three Stone Chambers
• Chairman and controlling shareholder, Kids MBA Ltd
• Visiting Professor – University of Westminster
• Visiting Professor – University of Lorraine
• “GREAT Legal Services” Champion - Ministry of Justice
• Member of Court, University of Essex
• ad hoc appointments as Chair / External Member, United Arab Emirates Commission for Academic Accreditation
• Honorary President – London Arbitration Centre
• Chair - Disciplinary Appeals Committee, Institute of Financial Accountants
• Non-Executive Director, Institute of Certified Bookkeepers
• Chancellor of the British Association of the Order of Malta, Representative of the Order of Malta to the Alliance Orders of St John
• Past Master - The Worshipful Company of Scriveners
• Ambassador – The Goldsmiths Fair, The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
• Conservative Party donor

2. Professor Anne-Maree Farrell

Chair of Medical Jurisprudence, Edinburgh Law School

Declarations of interests:

• nil

3. Professor Richard Guest

Professor of Biometric Technologies, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

Declaration of interests:

• Professor of Biometric Systems Engineering, University of Kent

4. Giles Herdale

Director, Herdale Digital Consulting Ltd

Declarations of interests:

• Self-employed contractor working via Herdale Digital Consulting Ltd for a range of clients in the public and private sectors
• Holds a contract with the National Police Chiefs’ Council for work on the Violence Against Women and Girls taskforce
• Member of Axon’s Ethics and Equity Advisory Council
• Member of the steering committee for Validate AI CIC
• Associate Fellow at RUSI

5. Dr Matt James

Associate Professor Bioethics and Medical Law, St Mary’s University

Declarations of interests:

• Assistant Director of the health think tank 20/20health
• Director of BioCentre, a think tank focused on new and emerging technologies

6. David Lewis

Former senior police officer and National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for ethics and national lead for forensics performance and standards

Declarations of interests:

• Director of own company, undertaking ad hoc freelance work relating to leadership, ethics and other matters relating to my areas of expertise
• Member (non-executive director) of the Human Tissue Authority
• Associate of the College of Policing – working in the area of leadership selection and assessment

7. Professor Penney Lewis

Criminal Law Commissioner, Law Commission of England and Wales

Declarations of interests:

• Law Commissioner, Law Commission of England and Wales (full-time public appointment)
• Author, ‘Delayed Prosecution for Childhood Sexual Abuse’ (published before in post – royalties paid on sales)
• Author, ‘Assisted Dying and Legal Change’ (published before in post – royalties paid on sales)
• Professor of Law, King’s College London (on leave to the Law Commission)
• Member, Society of Legal Scholars
• Member, Health Research Authority’s National Research & Ethics Advisers’ Panel
• Member, Advisory Board, Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice
• Solicitor and Barrister, Law Society of Upper Canada, Ontario, Canada (non-practising)

8. Elisabeth Mackay

Digital trust and cybersecurity consultant, PA consulting

Declarations of interests:

• Employee of PA consulting
• PA consulting shareholder

9. Professor Sarah Morris

Deputy Head of ECS (Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise, University of Southampton

Declarations of interests:

• Employee of the Met police (for Police Science Council Role)
• Open Source research review projects for the Home Office
• Previous funding from ACE, DSTL, and government agencies
• Previous Employee of Cranfield University
• Due to the nature of my digital forensics casework and research the majority of my clients and engagements are not public, however I will declare any interests as and when they arise
• Director for ECS Partners, a professional consultancy company for the University of Southampton

10. Dr Nóra Ni Loideain

Director of the Information Law and Policy Centre, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

Declaration of interests:

• nil

11. Professor Niamh Nic Daeid

Professor of Forensic Science and Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee.

Declarations of interests:

• nil

12. Dr Malcolm Oswald

Director, Citizens Juries c.i.c.

Declarations of interests:

• nil

13. Professor Marion Oswald, MBE

Professor of Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle and Senior Research Associate, the Alan Turing Institute

Declarations of interests:

• Northumbria University (employee)
• The Alan Turing Institute (employee)
• Chair of West Midlands PCC and West Midlands Police data ethics committee (volunteer chair)
• Principal Investigator of the UKRI-funded Responsible AI UK Keystone project ‘PROBabLE Futures’
• Member, New Zealand Police Emerging Technologies Panel

14. Professor Emeritus Charles Raab

School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

Declaration of interests:

• nil

15. Professor Thomas Edward Sorell

Professor of politics and philosophy, University of Warwick

Declaration of interests:

• Director of Tom Sorell Ltd, which collects royalties from his books

16. Professor Denise Syndercombe-Court

Professor of forensic genetics, Kings College London

Declaration of interests:

• nil

17. Dr Peter Waggett

Director of Research at IBM

Declarations of interests:

• Director of Research, IBM UK Ltd from 2015 to present
• As a part of the remuneration package Dr Waggett receives restricted stock units in IBM shares on an annual basis – he currently holds around 1800 IBM shares