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Members' register of interests

Updated 13 March 2026

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Professor Anne-Maree Farrell

Chair of Medical Jurisprudence, Edinburgh Law School

Declaration of interests:

  • nil

Professor Richard Guest

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

Declaration of interests:

  • Honorary Professor of Biometric Systems Engineering, University of Kent
  • Advisor to Ingenium Biometrics Laboratories.

Giles Herdale

Director, Herdale Digital Consulting Ltd

Declaration of interests:

  • Self-employed contractor working via Herdale Digital Consulting Ltd for a range of clients in the public and private sectors
  • Member of Axon’s Ethics and Equity Advisory Council
  • Member of the steering committee for Validate AI CIC
  • Associate Fellow at RUSI

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

David Lewis

Former Deputy Chief Constable of Dorset and Devon and Cornwall Police, and previous National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for ethics and national lead for forensics performance and standards. Now undertaking a portfolio of roles in governance, regulation, ethics and leadership development.

Declaration 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

Professor Penney Lewis

Criminal Law Commissioner, Law Commission of England and Wales

Declaration 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)
  • UK representative, sub-committee on AI and the criminal law, Committee on Crime Problems, Council of Europe
  • 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)
  • Member, Clinical Ethics Committee, St Christopher’s Hospice

Elisabeth Mackay

Digital trust and cybersecurity consultant, PA consulting

Declaration of interests:

  • Employee of PA consulting
  • PA consulting shareholder

Professor Sarah Morris

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

Declaration 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

Dr Nóra Ni Loideain

Associate Professor in Law (Reader) and Director, Information Law & Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Declaration of interests:

  • nil

Professor Niamh Nic Daeid

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

Declaration of interests:

  • nil

Dr Malcolm Oswald

Director, Citizens Juries c.i.c.

Declarations of interests:

  • nil

Professor Marion Oswald, MBE

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

Declaration of interests:

  • Northumbria University (employee)
  • The Alan Turing Institute (Senior Visiting Fellow)
  • 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’
  • Non-executive Chapter member (trustee), Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire

Professor Emeritus Charles Raab

Professor Emeritus, Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

Declaration of interests:

  • nil

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

Professor Denise Syndercombe-Court

Professor of Forensic Genetics, Kings College London

Declaration of interests:

  • nil

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
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