We are: an international educational charity dedicated to reducing child maltreatment and interpersonal violence by using a business strategy approach of identifying and tackling root causes.

Our research: has identified the crucial nature of children's experience from conception to age 3, and the central role of empathy and attunement as antidotes to the development of violent personalities.

Our reports: capture our findings on the root causes of child abuse and the critical value of warm, nurturing, loving parenting in the initial years of a child's life.

WAVE recommendations: educate and inform policy-makers, promoting the adoption of long-term, effective and economically viable solutions.

Patrons
Baroness Walmsley, Liberal Democrat spokesperson on children, schools and families in the House of Lords
The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Former Leader of the UK Conservative Party

Strategic adviser and past Chairman of Trustees
Sir Christopher Ball, formerly Warden of Keble College, Oxford and Chancellor of the University of Derby

Chairman of Trustees
Caroline Clark, Mathematician, Historian, Life Coach and mother

Officer Members
George Hosking, founder and Chief Executive Officer, economist, psychologist and clinical criminologist
Ita Walsh, former Trustee, author of WAVE reports Violence and what to do about it and Working together to reduce serious youth violence
Anthoulla Koutsoudi, Company Secretary, Lawyer

Other Members and Trustees
Jan Arnow, author of 6 books, including Teaching Peace and Tortured Youth, Children in Violence
Professor Vivette Glover, Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology at Imperial College London
Sir Michael Heron, former Chairman of the Post Office and Main Board Director of Unilever plc
Kate Quigley, Prison Officer advising WAVE on therapeutic work in prisons
Felicity de Zulueta, lead clinician, Traumatic Stress Service, Maudsley Hospital, London, and author of From Pain to Violence, the traumatic roots of destructiveness