Current Positions

  • A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords since 1996.  Recently Deputy Chairman of Committees, and a member of the COVID Committee of the House.  Formerly Convenor of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
  • Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford http://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/
  • Director, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC), Oxford  http://cric-oxford.org/
  • Executive Chairman, Changing Character of War Centre and CCW Academic Board, Pembroke College, University of Oxford The Changing Character of War Centre (ox.ac.uk)
  • Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
  • Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
  • President, ARTIS (Europe) Ltd (research, teaching and intervention support, especially in the psychology of terrorism, political violence and other major psychosocial phenomena)  https://www.artiseurope.com
  • Founding Chairman, The Concord Foundation (Ireland) CLG.
  • Chairman Emeritus, Centre for Democracy and Peace Building (formerly the Founding Chairman and a Director) https://democracyandpeace.org
  • Director and Vice President, International Dialogue Initiative (USA)  https://www.internationaldialogueinitiative.com/
  • President, Peru Support Group – Peru Support Group
  • Trustee (formerly Chairman of Board of Trustees), National Liberal Club https://nlc.org.uk/
  • Retired NHS Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer at The Queen’s University of Belfast. Also until recently a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore (USA)
  • President, Westminster Pastoral Foundation
  • Trustee, Methuen Trust, Corsham
  • Trustee, Liberal Party Supplementary Pension Fund