Anne Watts CBE, Appointments Commission

joined the Appointments Commission as Chair in April 2007.  The Appointments Commission recruits and appoints chairs and non-executive directors across the Health Service and to Department of Health Advisory Bodies.  They also provide non-executive recruitment services for Foundation Trusts and boards of public bodies across central Government.
       
Anne is a leading figure in diversity, recruitment and workplace development issues, and has a strong track record across the private, public and voluntary sectors.  Alongside her role as Chair of the Commission, she also serves on a number of other boards including Greater London Enterprise, Opportunity Now and Race for Opportunity. Additionally, she is a trustee of Eve Appeal, Patron of the charity Thatu and Vice Patron of Working Families. She holds a ministerial appointment as a member of the School Teachers Review Body and is currently working with the Army on a review of equality, and London Councils on councillor expenses.  Anne has previously held executive roles within Business in the Community, HSBC and Natwest.

Peter Holland CBE, National Policing Improvement Agency
       
is Chairman of the NPIA board. He was, until 2007, the elected Vice Chairman of the Association of Police Authorities, leading on IT matters, and is now an honorary Vice President.

A journalist by profession, he was at Reuters for 23 years, starting out as a financial journalist and moving through varied roles, including Managing Director of Reuters Europe, Reuters Overseas Ltd and Chairman of Reuters Latin America/Africa and what is now Reuters Television.
       
He was also on the boards of both Centrex and the Police Information and Technology Organisation (PITO). In 1995 he was appointed independent member of Hertfordshire Police Authority, and in 1997 was elected Chairman until standing down in 2003. In 2001 he was appointed an independent council member of the Telecommunications Ombudsman Service (Otelo) and subsequently elected Chairman. He is now Chairman of the Ombudsman Service Limited (TOSL) which operates ombudsman services for telecommunications, energy and surveyors. In 2002 he was appointed Chairman of Herts in Trust, a charity working to support safer communities and lower crime rates in Hertfordshire; and in 2005 appointed to the Board of St John Ambulance Ltd and Chairman of its Audit Committee.
       
He was appointed a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 2000 and awarded the CBE for services to policing in the New Years Honours 2005.

Karamjit Singh CBE, Social Fund Commissioner

is the Judicial Appointments Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and is also a member of the Queens Counsel Selection Panel for England and Wales.
       
The early stages of his career covered academia, casework in the voluntary sector, local government and the Commission for Racial Equality.
       
During the past two decades his public appointments include considering complaints against the police; taking parole decisions; investigating suspected miscarriages of justice;  training of the judiciary; selection of senior civil servants; regulation of financial services; chairing an NHS mental health Trust; regulation of donations to political parties and performance standards in electoral administration; and membership of employment tribunals.
       
Previous voluntary interests have included being a Trustee of the Citizenship Foundation, the Lloyds TSB Foundation, the British Lung Foundation and organising free medical camps in India.
       
He was awarded the CBE in 1999 for services to the administration of justice.

Rob Douglas CBE, SEEDA / Space Agency
     
is a business consultant with wide experience in both the public and private sectors.
       
Prior to his consultancy, Rob was a senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell where he held a number of senior general management positions, including Area Co-ordinator, China and East Asia; Chief Executive, Shell Belgium; Chief Executive, Shell Italy; and Vice President for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Exploration and Development Business. Rob had initially joined Shell from the Inland Revenue and had held a number of senior tax posts, including Shell UK Tax Manager, and Head of International Taxation, based in the Hague.
       
Rob has combined his consultancy activities with a number of non-executive roles in both the public and private sectors. He was a Board member of the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) from 2001 to 2007 and returned to the Agency as Chairman in November 2009. He is also a Board Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He was Chair of the Surrey Learning and Skills Council from 2000 to 2007 and a member of the LSC South East Regional Council until 2010. From 2004 to 2010 he was on various advisory boards at BIS and its predecessor bodies, DTI and BERR.
       
Rob comes from Newcastle upon Tyne and was educated at Churchill College, Cambridge.

He is married to Hilary and they have two adult sons. He is a Fellow of the RSA and was made a CBE in the 2005 Birthday Honours. He is High Sheriff of the County of Surrey for 2010-11.

Judge King Advisory Committee for Conscientious Objectors
     
is Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Conscientious Objectors. He is a Circuit Judge and has been a legal member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal since 2002.
       
King was educated at the Inns of Court School of Law and was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1970. He was appointed an Assistant Judge Advocate General in 1991, a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1992 and a Circuit Judge in 1995.