Ian is an internationally recognised surgeon who for much of his career worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary; one of the busiest hospitals in the UK. More recently he has served as a professional advisor to Scottish Government providing advice on various matters relating to health care. Ian has had an interest in improving the quality and governance of medical treatment and undertook work that led to one of the first publications that reported comparative patient outcome data. He has led a number of reviews of poorly performing clinical services across the UK. More recently he chaired a review on behalf of the four UK Ministers of Health that was tasked with making medical training more responsive to patient and service need. He was awarded a CBE in 2021. Ian is recognised by the Law Society as an expert witness and has given evidence in a number of high profile medical legal cases.

Esther has spent over 15 years working in the not for profit, social enterprise and business sectors, running award-winning campaigns, supporting enterprise and building teams. She founded the Social Change Agency in 2013 with a desire to combine organising, technology, comms and social enterprise to create a leading non sector-specific agency to improve movement building across the world. Esther is a 2011 Clore Social Fellow, 2012 Winston Churchill Fellow and 2013 SSE Fellow and was recently placed in the top Women in Social Enterprise. She is a Trustee of the House of St Barnabas. Esther's original research includes Peering In and Shouting Down the House, two UK and international studies on digital and grassroots campaigning. She has worked on several reframing narrative projects, including Director at the Learning Disability Coalition where she coordinated comms and campaigning staff across 12 organisations with a view to change the narrative around Government Spending on Social Care.

Meirion spent many years running investigations for the BBC at Newsnight and Panorama on everything from vulture funds to US election fraud. He won the Daniel Pearl award for his investigation into the dumping of Trafigura’s toxic waste in Africa, the London Press Awards Scoop of the Year for his part in the Jimmy Savile revelations and was nominated for a Royal Television Society award for his investigation into the “fake sheikh”, Mazher Mahmood. He joined the Bureau in 2016.

Shauneen is a barrister (UK) and attorney (USA) whose strategic litigation campaigns brought changes in the law 4 times in 4 years. She is currently the director of Impact Law for Social Justice, a legal consultancy that supports communities and campaigners use to law to bring about the change they are seeking. Shauneen is the vice-chair of the Barings Foundation and trustee of Centre for Justice Innovation she coordinates the Child Law Network a UK network of legal NGOs with expertise in child law. Shauneen was the co-founder and former CEO of Just for Kids Law and the Youth Justice Legal Centre (2005-2018). She started her career representing those facing the death penalty in the Southern United States. For her work, she has been awarded and Eisenhower Fellowship, and Ashoka Fellowship, a Shackleton Fellowship, and was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Florence is Director of the Environmental Funders Network, where she has been working since moving to the UK from the United States in 2012. She is also a trustee of Gower Street, a climate- and education-focused grantmaking charity that funds largely in the UK and Ghana. In the US, she worked for a range of different environmental organisations, running a national grants programme focused on innovative conservation, and helping to bring together leaders from the environmental and social justice sectors to find common ground. She lives and works from a village in Buckinghamshire.

Gavin Robert is a leading competition lawyer, having been a partner at the international law firm Linklaters for 14 years and served as a Panel Member of the UK Competition & Markets Authority for five years, and is now a consultant with boutique competition law and foreign investment firm Euclid Law. Gavin holds a long-standing interest in social mobility, education and healthcare. He is the Chair of REAch2 Academy Trust, the largest primary-only academy trust in the UK, which runs 60 primary schools across England and focuses on turning around failing schools in disadvantaged areas. Gavin also recently sat on the Expert Advisory Group established by the Minister for the School System, Baroness Barran, to advise on regulatory reform of the academy sector. Gavin is also a non-executive Director of the Royal Papworth NHS Foundation Trust, the world-leading heart and lung hospital in Cambridge, where he chairs the Trust’s Performance Committee and was recently appointed to chair the Trust’s Clinical Ethics Committee.

David is the Deputy Director of the Baring Foundation and leads its Strengthening Civil Society and International Development programmes. Focused on advancing human rights and promoting inclusion, the SCS programme supports civil society to understand and use the law as a tool of social change. It has awarded over 160 grants across all four UK nations since 2015. David began his career at the international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills LLP. Since then, he has worked on public interest litigation and human rights at the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco and as Global Pro Bono Advisor at the law firm Linklaters LLP. David is Co-Chair of the Global Philanthropy Project and was a guest editor of Alliance Magazine’s issue on Philanthropy, Law and Justice.

Katherine is a campaigns strategist advising some of the biggest and most high profile social justice and women’s rights campaigns in the UK. As founding Campaigns Director at Change.org UK, Katherine delivered multiple winning campaigns driving growth for the now world’s largest petition site and biggest activism platform in the UK. For the past two years Katherine has worked with Grenfell United providing strategic campaigns advice to ensure that the survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower fire. As one of the people that set up Change.org in the UK, Katherine grew and led a high performing campaigns team through a period of rapid growth, delivering over three campaigns wins a week including putting a woman on a banknote, No Page 3 and changing the law for 16 year olds in police custody. Katherine has worked with and advised leading international purpose driven organisations and global activists alike, including the ONE Campaign, Virgin Unite and Nobel prize nominee Jaha Durereh.