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Maria Miller MP is the MP for Basingstoke. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for Women and Equalities, from September 2012 to April 2014. Maria is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in Parliament.

Christine Jardine MP
Christine Jardine is the Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West, and has been an MP continuously since 8 June 2017. She currently undertakes the roles of Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Home Affairs), and Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Women and Equalities).

Sue Inglish
Sue Inglish was Head of Political Programmes for BBC News from 2005 to 2015. Sue was responsible for the BBC’s political, parliamentary and election news, programmes and digital content.

Thomas Hughes has been the Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, an international human rights organisation focusing on freedom of expression and information since 2013. Thomas is also the founder and former Director of the social purpose enterprises, Diversity, an international advertising network for online news media from Human Rights repressed countries, and VirtualRoad.org, a secure hosting service that protects the websites of civil society organisations.

Simon Walker
Simon Walker was, until early 2017, Director General of the Institute of Directors. Simon previously served as Chief Executive of the British Private Equity and Venture Captial Association from October 2007 to March 2011.

Mark Babington
Mark Babington is the Executive Director of Regulatory Standards at the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). He leads the division responsible for the FRC technical and public policy work, covering audit, corporate reporting, corporate governance and stewardship, actuarial, and the FRC Lab. The division also includes the FRC’s Investor and Stakeholder Engagement work. Prior to joining the Executive Committee, Mark led the FRC’s UK Audit Policy programme, measures to support greater competition in the UK audit market and work to support the reform of international standard setting for auditors, by global regulatory authorities.