Our Trustees
Hon. Michael Samuel (Chairman)
Conservative Party donor; Former chief executive of Mayborn Group plc; Chairman of the Anna Freud Centre; trustee of five family charities; director of a number of other companies, one quoted and the others private.
Simon Briscoe
Simon is Special Adviser (Statistics) to the House of Commons Public Affairs Committee and Vice-President of Product at Timetric. He spent a decade as Statistics Editor at the Financial Times, after working in the City and, initially, as a Civil Servant in the Treasury and for a time at the European Commission in Brussels. Simon has his own website, as does his latest book Panicology. He can also be found on twitter.
Lord David Lipsey
David is a Labour Peer who founded Straight Statistics in response to concerns about the abuse of data in public life. He joined the Full Fact board upon the merger between the two organisations. He has been both a journalist at the Economist where he won the Orwell Prize and other papers, and also an adviser in Callaghan's Number 10 Downing Street. He is known to enjoy racing various kinds of animals.
Baroness Julia Neuberger
Liberal Democrat Peer; former member of the Committee for Standards in Public Life; adviser to the government on numerous issues; former Chief Executive of King’s Fund and extensive health experience; Britain’s second female rabbi.
Professor Jean Seaton
Official Historian of the BBC; Professor of Media History, University of Westminster; Chair of the Orwell Prize; Editor of Political Quarterly and on other editorial boards; served on various public inquiries, including on the broadcasting of Parliament.
We would also like to acknowledge the vital support of two of our founding trustees who have since stepped down, Lord Peter Archer of Sandwell QC, a Labour Peer, former Solicitor General, former Ombudsman for the Mirror Group of Newspapers and founder member of Amnesty International; and John Lloyd, founder and Journalism Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University; Contributing Editor of the Financial Times; former Editor of the New Statesman.
Our Staff
Will Moy - Director
Will was prompted to start Full Fact after experiencing first-hand how policy can be distorted by inaccurate claims during his time as a researcher for Lord Low of Dalston, an independent member of the House of Lords. The creation of Full Fact was inspired by the POWER Inquiry, Onora O’Neill’s Reith Lectures and books by Peter Oborne and John Lloyd that all address the issue of restoring trust between politicians and the public.
Patrick Casey - Staff writer
Patrick Casey joined Full Fact after a successful stint as News Editor of PoliticsHome.com. Working at PoliticsHome before the site’s official launch, he was part of the team that helped turn it into a mainstay of the Westminster web world. He has also worked for Jo Swinson MP, Unlock Democracy, and the New Local Government Network.
Owen Spottiswoode - Staff writer
Owen joined Full Fact from The Guardian, where he was a Research Analyst. Prior to this he was the Senior Political Researcher at Foresight News. He has also worked in new media for Oxford University Press, having graduated from Oxford University in 2006.
Joseph O'Leary - Staff writer
Joseph joined Full Fact after interning at the Media Standards Trust. While there he helped to administer Journalisted.com and provided support for the Orwell Prize and the Hacked Off campaign for a good public inquiry into phone hacking and press ethics. He also previously interned at Full Fact shortly after graduating from the University of Warwick in 2011.
Full Fact also benefits from lots of help from volunteers in many different capacities.
Credits
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