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Trustees
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Paul Crawford Walker (Chair)
Paul is a public health physician by background with a long standing interest in addiction generally and in the legalisation of drug use and supply particularly. He has worked in the NHS, local government, academe and
the voluntary sector with a recent stint as a Bristol City Councillor. He is currently Chair of PHA Cymru, the Welsh National Branch of the UKPHA; and Chair of the Socialist Health Association. |
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Nathalie Griffin (Treasurer)
Nat studied political science at several Canadian universities before moving to the UK. Also a Trustee for Haven Distribution (Books to Prisoners) and Community Resolve, Nat has worked for the Prisoners' Advice Service and several smaller charities and co-ops. |
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Mike Jay
As an author, broadcaster and historian, Mike has written extensively on history and culture of drug use and current drug policy. Author of 'Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century' and editor of the standard Penguin anthology of drug literature, 'Artificial Paradises', Mike also writes for drug policy journals including Druglink and the International Journal of Drug Policy, and appears regularly on BBC TV, Channel 4, Radio 3 and Radio 4. He is the former chairman of the Drug Policy Review Group. |
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Tim Malyon
Tim is a broadcast documentary journalist. His work in the drugs field includes serving as a trustee for Exeter Drugs Project and as a trustee of Release. |
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Henry Shaftoe
Henry is a senior lecturer in Community Safety and Crime Prevention at the University of the West of England, where he established an international distance learning course with over 150 students worldwide. He has also worked as a consultant with the Safe Neighbourhoods Unit (a national not-for-profit organisation) and undertakes research into many aspects of crime prevention and urban security. With a background in social work, community development and architectural design, he is a proponent of the importance of integrating social and environmental factors in any strategy to create safer communities. This is reflected in the wide range of publications he has contributed to, from a schoolteacher’s curriculum pack (Safe for Life, Nelson) to a handbook of security detailing (Design for Secure Residential Environments, Longman). He has carried out work for the European Commission and Government departments in Britain and France and is an expert on comparative approaches to urban security in European Countries. |
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Axel Klein
Axel is a Lecturer in the Study of Addictive Behaviour at the University of Kent with particular interest in the cultural contexts of drug use, the interplay of drugs and crime, and the development of drug policy at national and international level. He has worked in different capacities with the European Commission, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction and the Department for International Development. He has authored numerous articles and books, including 'Caribbean Drugs: from criminalization to Harm Reduction', and the forthcoming "The Khat Controversy: stimulating the debate on drugs". |
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Gary Wallace
Gary has worked in the drug field for 20 odd years. He has been a practitioner, manager, researcher, and commissioner. He is currently the DAAT manager for Plymouth, a position he has held for the last six years. |
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Neil Anderson
Born and mostly educated in New Zealand, Neil now resides in Caerdydd, Cymru, and works as a transportation consultant. He is former regional politician, and has campaigned for civil liberties, peace, social justice, environmental issues and political reform. He holds university degrees in economics, philosophy and transportation planning. He is married and has one teenage son.
Neil has presented submissions to governments on drug legalisation and regulation, and on energy and transportation strategy and policy.
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Karen Haas
Karen has nearly 20 years experience of working in the statutory and voluntary sectors, including over 10 years as a policy officer at the Department of Health. |
Staff
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Danny
Kushlick - Head of Policy and Communications
Before founding and becoming director of Transform in 1997
Danny had a variety of jobs in the drugs field. These included
being a probation partnership worker with Bristol Drugs Project,
a drugs counsellor for the Big Issue Foundation, a prison drugs
counsellor for Bath Area Drugs Advisory Service and drugs awareness
trainer for NACRO. Danny is a member of the Executive Council of the International Harm
Reduction Association and a member of the Advisory Council of the British
Society of Criminology. |
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Martin Powell - Communications Associate
Martin spent over ten years at environment and international development campaign groups including Friends of the Earth, the World Development Movement and as Co-Chair of the Jubilee Debt Campaign. Prior to that he worked for the French nuclear industry and as a social support worker for a homeless charity. He has a degree in applied chemistry, and a post-graduate diploma in environmental science, policy and planning.
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Steve Rolles - Head of Research
Steve joined Transform as Campaign Co-ordinator in 1998 and is now Information Officer for TDPF. Steve has a degree in human geography from Bristol University and a Masters degree in Development Studies from Manchester University. Before coming to Transform he spent a year working in India for the Medical Research Council managing a large scale rural health study, and a year as a full time volunteer in Oxfam Campaigns Bristol office working on Fair Trade and Stop the Arms Trade campaigns. |
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Emily Crick - Research Associate
Emily studied history at Goldsmiths College, London University and has Masters degrees in South Asian studies and International Relations. She worked in the international media for ten years including stints at Reuters and NBC News. Emily has also spent time working for the Vietnamese government news agency in Vietnam and at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in India.
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John Moore -Director of Operations
John has worked for a range of ex-prisoner and homeless voluntary sector organisations since 1984. He was the founding Director of Penrose Housing Association for ten years where he developed a range of innovative projects for ex-prisoners and mentally disordered offenders. He has degrees in Economics and Criminology. |
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Jane Slater - Operations Co-ordinator
Jane graduated with her degree in Geography from Manchester University and has worked for various charities and public sector bodies. |
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Francesca Solmi - DHA Co-ordinator (based at Transform)
Francesca received a BA in International Relations from Sussex University and has a Masters Degree in International Relations and Health Policy from SAIS – John Hopkins University. Before joining the DHA she worked with the World Health Organisation on Child Environmental Health issues. She has also interned for the Food and Agricultural Organisation in Rome, and for the United Nations Development Program’s liaison office in Washington DC.
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Volunteers
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Ed Rapley
Ed is currently helping us to establish and manage our on-line volunteer community for people wanting to contribute to the work of Transform. |
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George Gray
George helps out in our office two days a week with a range of administrative and webtasks. He is currently on a work placement as part of his NVQ. |
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