Annex A. Panel Biographies
Professor Michael Clarke (Chairman)
Michael Clarke is Director General of the Royal United Services Institute.
Professor Heather Brooke
Heather Brooke is an investigative journalist and Professor of Journalism at City University,
London. Heather worked as a political and crime reporter in the US before moving to
Britain where she specialised in using the Freedom of Information Act, notably winning
a High Court case against Parliament for the disclosure of MPs’ expenses. She is a Trustee
of Privacy International and an Advisory Board Member of the Open Rights Group.
Mrs Lesley Cowley OBE
Lesley Cowley was appointed non-executive Chair of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing
Agency in October 2014. She is also a non-Executive Director of (aql) and CERT-UK. She
is a former Chief Executive of Nominet, the .uk domain-name registry.
Lord Evans of Weardale KCB DL
Jonathan Evans is a former Director General of the Security Service (MI5). He was
appointed as an independent crossbench peer in the House of Lords in December 2014
and is a non-executive Director of HSBC. He is also a Senior Associate Fellow of RUSI.
Baroness Lane Fox of Soho CBE
Martha Lane Fox founded and chairs Go ON UK, a cross-sector digital-skills alliance. She
chairs MakieLab and Lucky Voice. In 1998 she co founded lastminute.com. She joined the
House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer in March 2013, and was appointed
Chancellor of the Open University in March 2014. Martha was the British government’s
Digital Champion from 2009 to 2013.
Professor John Grieve CBE QPM
A career police officer, former National Coordinator for Counter Terrorist Investigations
and Director of Intelligence for the Metropolitan Police, John Grieve is now Professor
Emeritus at London Metropolitan University and Director of its Centre for Policing and
Community Safety, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. From