Non-Executive Directors
Baroness Molly Meacher, Chairman
(Appointed to the Trust Board in August 2004 - present)
Background and Experience
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Chairman All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy reforms
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Advisor to Russian Government 1991-1994 on employment policy
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Appointed non-political party peer May 2006
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5 years as a Mental Health Act Commissioner and as a Non-Executive Director on the Tower Hamlets Healthcare Board
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Deputy and Acting Chair of the Police Complaints Authority and Chair of the Secure Industry Authority, Chair of the only Clinical Ethics Committee in Mental Health in the country for four years
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Author of books on Taxation and Poverty and Editor of "New Methods of Mental Health Care".
Qualifications: BA.Econ (Hons), Dip.Soc CQSW
Nicola Bastin, Non-Executive Director, Vice Chair and
Senior Independent Director
(Appointed to the Trust Board in October 2006)
Background and Experience
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Experience of improving service delivery in public sector, including Her Majesty's Courts Service and Jobcentre Plus
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Lay chair of fitness to practice hearings for the Health Professions Council
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Former Head of HR and then Director for Diversity of the Department of Work and Pensions
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Independent Board Member of Guiness South (affordable housing)
Qualifications: BSc. (Hons), MCIPD
Nicola Bastin joined East London NHS Foundation Trust in October 2006 and was reappointed in October 2010. She was appointed to the role of Vice Chair on 26 April 2007, and the role of Senior Independent Director on 29 November 2007.
In her role of Senior Independent Director Nicola is available to Governors and members if they have concerns which they have not been able to resolve through the usual channels of the Chief Executive or the Chairman. To contact Nicola in her capacity as Senior Independent Director please write to her, marked private and confidential, via the Board Secretary, EastONE, 22 Commercial Street, London E1 6LP.
Mary Elford, Non Executive Director
(Appointed to the Trust Board in February 2012)
Background and Experience
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Council Member, Queen Mary, University of London
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Member, National Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards
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Lay advisor, Department of Health
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Non-Executive Director, Barts and the London NHS Trust ( 2002-2012) and Chair of the Trust's Quality Assurance Committee
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Trustee, Camden Society for people with Learning Disabilities ( 2000-2010)
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Extensive commercial experience with John Lewis Partnership.
Qualifications: BA (Hons) Oxon
Clyde Williams, Non-Executive Director
(Appointed to the Trust Board in March 2007)
Background and Experience
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Chairman of Sho-net, a company working with public and voluntary sector organisations to improve performance by delivering technology which supports business objectives.
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Published two books on the use of technology in developing organisations.
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Current and past Directorships include Adult Learning Inspectorate, New Deal London Employers' Coalition, East London University, Learning and Skills Council Business Champions Group, London East TEC and Royal London Hospitals Trust.
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Chairman of 2XL Recruitment and Training, a specialist health and social care recruitment agency.
Qualifications: BSc.MBA
Alan Palmer, Non-Executive Director
(Appointed to the Trust Board in January 2010)
Background and Experience
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Non-Executive Director of Moat Homes Ltd, a housing association, and Chairman of its Audit Committee
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7 years as Secretary of the Lord Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Board, which advised the Ministry of Justice on the investment of funds held in court for vulnerable persons
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Extensive financial, insurance and banking experience in the City, including 13 years as Director of Commercial Union Investment Management Ltd
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3 years as Non-Executive Director of Kent Reliance Building Society
Chartered Accountant and Corporate Treasurer -
Local resident of Tower Hamlets for 9 years
Qualifications: FCA, FCT
Kingsley Peter, Non-Executive Director
(Appointed to the Trust Board in November 2006)
Background and Experience
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Chartered Certified Accountant
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Executive Director of Finance and Corporate Services for The Adolescent and Childrens' Trust, UK's largest fostercare services charity
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Formerly, Area Financial Controller fo the South East Area (Engineering) of the National Grid
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Formerly, Non-Executive Director, Assurance and Regulatory Board, Places for People Group
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Extensive experience of financial management
Qualifications: FCCA, MBA
Professor Stefan Priebe, Non-Executive Director
(Appointed to the Trust Board in April 2000)
Background and Experience
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University of London's Non-Executive Director nominee
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Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London since 1997
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Honorary Consultant Psyciatrist in the academic unit at Newham Centre for Mental Health
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Former Professor of Psychiatry at the Free University, Berlin. Visiting Professor at Universities of Modena, Belgrade and Berlin
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Head of Research and Development in the Trust
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Member of the Government's Mental Health Taskforce for the NHS Plan
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Former Chair of Voluntary Organisations in Mental Health in the UK and Germany