Patron and Trustees

Chair
Lord Herman Ouseley

Herman Ouseley is managing director of Different Realities Partnership Ltd – a consultancy specialising in equality, diversity and people management strategies. He was previously executive chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality from 1993 to 2000. Before that, he was a local government officer for 30 years, serving as chief executive of the London Borough of Lambeth as well as the former Inner London Education Authority, alongside a range of other positions with different local authorities during that period. Herman was knighted in 1997 for his services to local government and community relations in Britain and he was appointed as a member of the House of Lords in 2001. He recently completed a three-year term as president of the Local Government Association (2002-2005).

Herman is a council member of the Institute of Race Relations and chairs PRESET Education and Training Trust and KICK-IT-OUT (the national campaign to kick racism out of football). He is non-executive director of Focus Consultancy Ltd and Brooknight Security Ltd.

Vice Chair
Lord Navnit Dholakia OBE DL

“PRIAE is a unique research organisation offering insight into issues affecting ethnic elderly in our communities. I feel honoured to be associated with it” - Navnit Dholakia

Navnit Dholakia was appointed Baron Dholakia of Waltham Brooks and introduced to the House of Lords in 1997.

Lord Dholakia was appointed as Deputy Lieutenant for the County of West Sussex in 1999. He is the President of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) and chairs its Race Issues Advisory Committee. He is also a Vice President of the Mental Health Foundation and serves on the House of Lords Appointment Commission. He is a trustee of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol.

Previously he held appointments with the Commission for Racial Equality and the Police Complaints Authority. He has served on the Council of Save the Children Fund and the Howard League of Penal Reform and continues to serve on the editorial board of the Howard Journal.

Lord Dholakia was a member of the Ethnic Minority Advisory Committee of the Judicial Studies Board and served on Lord Carlisle’s Committee on Parole Systems Review. He served as a Magistrate and also as a member of the Board of Visitors for HM Prison Lewes. He was elected President of the Liberal Democrats from 2000-2004 and was appointed Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords in December 2004.

Lord Dholakia has won a number of prominent awards including “Asian of the Year” in November 2000. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the Government of India in January 2003.

Treasurer
Liam Hughes

Liam Hughes is chief executive of East Leeds PCT, which provides NHS/joint planning support for children across Leeds and runs child health, school nursing and CAMHS services. Liam chairs the regional specialist obstetrics and paediatrics clinical network across Yorkshire and is lead commissioner for these services. He is closely involved with Education Leeds and Social Services on the development of more integrated local services. Liam is also non-executive director of the Health Development Agency.

Previous posts include being strategic director of Social Services, Youth Service and Community Development at the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and co-director of Planning and Commissioning for Health and Social Care. He has also been chief social services officer at Kirklees Metropolitan District Council; principal officer/assistant director in Barnet and Kirklees with a focus on hospital reprovision programmes; and psychiatric social worker/team leader in Lambeth.

Trustee
Jeffrey Greenwood

Jeffrey Greenwood is a solicitor. He graduated from Cambridge University with the degrees of MA and LLM. Most of his professional career was spent with Nabarro Nathanson a major London law firm where he became the senior partner in 1987 until he retired from practice in 1995. Since leaving the law he entered the business world where he has held a number of board appointments in public and private companies.

Throughout his career Jeffrey has always had an active involvement in the voluntary and charitable sectors. He was appointed chair of The Jewish Welfare Board in 1986 and played an active role in the amalgamation of that charity with another leading charity to form Jewish Care in 1990 where he was appointed first chair. Jewish Care is the largest Jewish social service agency in Europe providing a large range of residential, field and domiciliary services to the Jewish community in London and the south east. In 1993 he was appointed by government to chair the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work, a non department public body with responsibility for the education and training of the social work profession throughout the United Kingdom.

Jeffrey is married to Naomi, an educationalist and they have four children and ten grandchildren. They both remain active in their professional fields and spend much time travelling the world visiting their far flung family.

Trustee
Professor Sashidharan

Professor Sashidharan is a Consultant Psychiatrist in an independent practice based in Birmingham UK. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick (Warwick Medical School) where he is the co-director (with Professor Scott Weich) of the National Centre for Research in Ethnicity and Mental Health.

Professor Sashidharan was the Medical Director of North Birmingham Mental Health Trust between 1994 and 2003. He also worked as consultant psychiatrist in the NHS, running a Home Treatment service in Ladywood, Birmingham for over 15 years.

Previously he worked at the University of Edinburgh and University of Birmingham. He was the Professor of Community Psychiatry in Birmingham until 2000. He has considerable research background in psychiatric epidemiology and in the field of mental health and ethnicity. For over three decades he has been actively involved in research, service reform and campaigns to improve ethnic inequalities in mental health services in England.

Currently he works as a consultant to the World Health Organisation. He is involved in mental health reform programmes in several countries.

Patron
Dr Chai Patel, CBE FRCP

Formerly Chief Executive of Westminster Health Care Ltd, one of the largest operators of healthcare services in the UK, Chai is now chief executive of Priory Group, Britain’s largest independent specialist mental health and education services provider, which employs over 3,000 health care and professional staff including consultants, therapists, nurses, etc.

From 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the Better Regulation Task Force leading a number of reports including Long Term Care, Early Years Education and Red Tape Affecting Head Teachers. He was appointed to the Department of Health Task Force for Older People, set up to drive forward the implementation of the NHS Plan and the National Services Framework for Older People.

He is trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), the Windsor Leadership Trust, is a senior associate of the King’s Fund, founder member of the new Health Network and former Trustee of Help the Aged.

Chai is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal Society of Arts (and member of their Advisory Council) and a Companion of the Institute of Management. He is a member of the NHS Confederation Affiliate Forum and is a patron/supporter to CSV and The Terrence Higgins Trust.

He has an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University and in 1999 awarded CBE for services to the development of social care policies.