• A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords since 1996.  Currently a member of the Select Committee of the House on International Relations and Defence.  A past 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

     
    Honorary Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford  https://www.pmb.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.

      • Professor of Practice, Global Humanity for Peace Institute, University of Wales Trinity St David

      • Chairman of the Advisory Board of MENA 2050, a not-for-profit UK company working on social and economic cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa (from July 2023)

      • A director of the Forum de Victoria/Victoria Forum – a not-for-profit Canadian company working on national and international dialogue for peace, stability and reconciliation (from Aug 2023)

      • Retired NHS Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer at The Queen’s University of Belfast and previously 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



     

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