Mr Stephen Endelman Mr Stephen Endelman was appointed as a Senior Fellow of Wave Trust in 2018. He wrote and directed a poignant and creative film about child sexual abuse which won a prize at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Expand Stephen Endelman was appointed as a Senior Fellow of Wave Trust in 2018. He wrote and directed a poignant and creative film about child sexual abuse. Based on a true event in Stephen Endelman's life, 'A Boy, A Man and a Kite' is a short movie about the relationship between unresolved childhood traumas and adult life. The film won an award at The Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Stephen is an acclaimed writer, producer and composer who has worked for both the USA and UK film industries. Since 2015, Stephen has been a part-time teacher of composition at The Guildhall School of Music in London.
Professor Sir Harry Burns Sir Harry Burns, formerly Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, is a Senior Fellow of WAVE Trust. Expand Sir Harry Burns is Strathclyde’s Professor of Global Health. He also has a leadership position within the International Prevention Research Institute (IPRI). Dr Burns graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1974. He trained in surgery and was appointed Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow in 1984. Working with patients in the East end of Glasgow gave him an insight into the complex inter-relationships between socioeconomic status and illness. He completed a Masters Degree in Public Health in 1990. In 1994, he became Greater Glasgow’s Public Health Director. He was later a national leader in cancer prevention and care. From 2005 until 2014, Dr Burns served as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, where his responsibilities included public health policy. He gave strong priority to early childhood, including co-chairing the Scottish Government’s Early Years Task Force. He was knighted in 2011. Of 70/30 he says: 'I do not view 70/30 as either wishful thinking or an unachievable goal. On the contrary, reducing child maltreatment by 70% in the next fifteen years is the minimum acceptable outcome in responding to this unacceptable (and profoundly costly) harm to our youngest children. Our actions as a society must prove that we really do find all child abuse, neglect and toxic childhood environments intolerable . . . by no longer tolerating them. Complementing my academic work, my affiliation with WAVE will help me keep taking actions that increase health, promote wellbeing and really give every child the kind of brilliant start in life we wish for our own children.'
Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green and was leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003. Expand Iain Duncan Smith was leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003. He was first elected to parliament at the 1992 general election as the MP for Chingford and has represented its successor constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green since the 1997 general election. Iain is the founder of the Centre for Social Justice and worked with WAVE Trust to produce the report Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens. Related content: Early Intervention - Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens (2008)
Baroness Joan Margaret Walmsley Baroness Joan Margaret Walmsley is a member of the House of Lords. She is Co-Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Peers. Expand Baroness Walmsley was raised to the peerage as Baroness Walmsley of West Derby in the County of Merseyside in 2000, whereupon she took the Liberal Democrat Whip. She was the party's spokesperson in the House of Lords on Education & Skills (2001–2003); Home Affairs (2003–2004); and again for Education & Skills from 2004 onwards. Her recreations include music, the theatre, gardening, rowing and "good company". She is a member of the Parliamentary Choir and was its Chairman from 2004 to 2006.
Baroness of Hill Top Hilary Armstrong Baroness of Hill Top Hilary Armstrong is a member of the House of Lords. Expand Hilary trained as a social worker, and worked in the North-East of England. She moved into community work, then taught on the Community and Youth Work course at Sunderland Polytechnic. She became the MP for North West Durham in 1987, and became Minister for Local Government and Housing in 1997. Hilary was instrumental in the early programme of the Social Exclusion Unit and in the cross departmental SureStart ministerial committee. She was the Minister responsible for reducing rough sleeping in England by more than two-thirds in two years. After five years as Government Chief Whip, Hilary returned to her commitment to tackling social exclusion when she was appointed as the first Cabinet Minister to have responsibility for Social Exclusion in 2006. She persuaded colleagues to support effective early intervention programmes and was instrumental in bringing the Nurse-Family Partnership to England, where a pilot covering 10 areas was established. She resigned from government in 2007 and from Parliament in 2010. She was appointed to the House of Lords in July 2010, and has continued her interest in early intervention and prevention.
Lord Chris Fox Lord Chris Fox is a member of the House of Lords and Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Expand Lord Fox has had a long career in technology businesses and has been a supporter and adviser to WAVE Trust for several years. He accepted the role of WAVE patron in 2017. Since June 2017, Lord Fox has been Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Business and Industrial Strategy and is a member of the Lords Science and Technology Committee.
George Hosking OBE, Chief Executive Officer and Research Director George Hosking OBE is WAVE Trust's Founder and Current Chief Executive Officer and Research Director. He is one of the UK's foremost experts on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and has developed a UK-wide ACE-prevention project. Expand George is an economist, accountant, psychologist and clinical criminologist. He is also a traumatic stress counsellor. Before focusing on social issues, George had a successful career in business, first as a senior line manager working in the field of international strategy, then as a strategy consultant and corporate turnaround specialist. At 26, he became one of the youngest ever senior managers in Unilever. After a 17-year career there, where he became responsible for helping create and produce the strategic plans for 30 countries, he left to open his own consultancy. His major lines of work were international strategy and turning around loss-making businesses. He has carried out around 30 successful corporate turnarounds in a range of countries and industries, adding more than £10 million per annum to the profitability of such companies as the Mothers Pride Bread company and Booker Cash & Carry. In the mid-1990s he founded (and for many years funded!) WAVE Trust, to adapt his corporate turnaround technique to transform the lives of children. Since then he has advised the Met Police, Scottish Government, Cabinet Office, Home Office, Departments for Education and Health and No 10 Downing Street on policies for children or to tackle violence. As a clinical criminologist he has worked with victims and perpetrators of violence, in prisons and in the community delivering WAVE’s very successful ‘An End to Violence’ programme.
Anthoulla Koutsoudi Anthoulla Koutsoudi is WAVE Trust's Company Secretary, Director of External Relations and major donor fundraiser. Expand Anthoulla was a solicitor in private legal practice for 27 years until 2009, specialising in commercial property transactions and non-contentious legal work. During the years leading up to 2009, she provided pro-bono and financial support to WAVE. WAVE’s ever-growing sphere of influence and achievements led to an expansion of opportunities for the organisation to achieve social transformation. The possibilities excited Anthoulla such that she could no longer remain in the law. She left the legal profession in 2010 to join the management team, enabling her to present WAVE's preventive message and strategic solutions to audiences throughout the UK. Anthoulla fulfills two key roles within WAVE: Company Secretary and in-house lawyer, including handling all internal and third party contracts, governance, dealing with Companies House & Charity Commission requirements, and liaising with and supporting the Board of Trustees. Director of External Relations and major donor fundraiser, including engaging with major supporters and ambassadors.
Dr Daniel Shaw Dr Daniel Shaw is a research adviser to WAVE Trust and Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Expand Dr. Daniel Shaw is currently Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and Center for Social and Urban Research. He currently leads or co-directs five NIH-funded, longitudinal studies investigating the early antecedents and prevention of childhood conduct problems and substance use. For his conceptual and empirical work on the development of young children’s conduct problems, he was awarded the Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award by APA’s Division of Developmental Psychology in 1995. Dr. Shaw has published extensively on risk factors associated with the development and prevention of conduct problems in early childhood, and his early intervention program is currently being adopted at several locations in the United States, Europe and Australia. As his primary work has been dedicated to tracing the early predictors of anti-social behavior and more recently, designing preventive interventions to reduce the number of early-starting children, he has a strong commitment to WAVE's goals.
Sir Michael Rutter Sir Michael Rutter is a research adviser to WAVE Trust and Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of London's Institute of Psychiatry. Expand Sir Michael Rutter is Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of London's Institute of Psychiatry, as well as an Honorary Director of the Medical Research Council Child Psychiatry Unit. In addition to his extensive experience in clinical practice, his research activities include protective factors in child development, developmental links between childhood and adult life, schools as social institutions, neuropsychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. His publications include some 30 books, 105 chapters and over 230 scientific papers. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987 and was knighted in 1992.
Dr Bruce Perry Dr Bruce Perry, M/D, Ph.D. is a research adviser to WAVE Trust. He is the Senior Fellow of The Child Trauma Academy, Houston. Expand Bruce D. Perry, M/D, Ph.D. is the Senior Fellow of The Child Trauma Academy, a not-for-profit organisation based in Houston that promotes innovations in service, research and education in child maltreatment and childhood trauma. Dr. Perry is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing, a popular book based on his work with maltreated children; and Born for Love: Why empathy is essential - and endangered. For over 25 years, Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children's mental health and the neurosciences, holding a variety of academic positions. Dr. Perry's full biography is available here.
Dr Martin Knapp Dr Martin Knapp is a research adviser to WAVE Trust, and Professor of Social Policy and Chair of Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics. Expand Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Chair of Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics. He is also Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. Martin has been working for many years in the fields of long-term care, social care and mental health policy and practice. Current activities include economic evaluations of a wide range of treatments and other interventions for people with mental health problems; studies of the developing 'mixed economy' of social care; and long-term care expenditure projections. Among his many publications, he was co-author of the British Medical Journal article Financial cost of social exclusion: follow-up study of antisocial children into adulthood.
Dr James Gilligan M.D. Dr James Gilligan M.D. is a research adviser to WAVE Trust and Director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Harvard Medical School. Expand Director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Harvard Medical School and former medical director of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, Dr. Gilligan was brought in as Director of Mental Health for the Massachusetts prison system because of the high suicide and murder rates within their prisons. When he left 10 years later, the rates of both had dropped to virtually zero. His therapeutic, diagnostic and forensic work with violent individuals, including addressing prison riots, hostage-taking incidents, hunger strikes, terrorism, gang rapes, prison suicides and homicides, have taken place in maximum-security prisons and mental hospitals throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Current research projects include an evaluation of an experimental violence prevention programme in the jails of San Francisco for the Soros Foundation. His publications include Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes (Grosset/Putnam, New York, 1996); Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic (London: Jessica Kingsley, 1999) and Preventing Violence: An Agenda for the Coming Century (London and New York: Thames and Hudson).
Dr Donald Dutton Dr Donald Dutton is a research adviser to WAVE Trust. He has over 20 years experience of domestic violence research and clinical work. Expand Donald Dutton, Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, has over 20 years experience of domestic violence research and clinical work. His clinical therapy programmes have demonstrated success in treating male batterers. His research into the causal factors in intimate rage, violence and abusiveness has led to empirically underpinned understanding of the pathways which lead to men becoming perpetrators of domestic violence. His writings on domestic violence include The Abusive Personality: Violence and control in intimate relationships, and he has served as an expert witness in a number of prominent legal cases of domestic violence and spousal homicide, including the O.J. Simpson case.
Dr Kevin Browne Dr Kevin Browne is a research adviser to WAVE Trust. He is a recognised expert on domestic violence and is co-author of Preventing Family Violence. Expand Prof. Kevin Browne is Director of the Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Nottingham University. A recognised expert on domestic violence, he has been researching family violence for 20 years and has published extensively on the subject. Together with Professor Martin Herbert, he is the co-author of the book Preventing Family Violence. He has been Chair of the Research Committee of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (IPSCAN) and Co-Editor of Early Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse, a book series on Child Care and Protection, and Child Abuse Review, the Journal of the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BAPSCAN).
Sir Paul Ennals CBE Sir Paul Ennals was a trustee of WAVE Trust from September 2012 to September 2015 and is now an expert adviser to the management team. Expand Sir Paul Ennals was a trustee of WAVE Trust from September 2012 to September 2015, and is now an expert adviser to the management team. He was previously the Chief Executive of the National Children's Bureau, having previously been Director of Education and Employment for the RNIB. He was Vice-Chairman of the government's National Advisory Group on Special Educational Needs from 1997 to 2001, Chairman of the Council for Disabled Children from 1993–1998 and Founder Chairman of the Special Educational Consortium. He was knighted in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
Dr. David Mead With an interest in Preventative Health Care and early days care and support of families, David is happy to join the Board of trustees. Expand Dr David Mead With an interest in Preventative Health Care and early days care and support of families, David is happy to join the Board of trustees. He is a medical doctor who practiced as a G.P. in Canada and subsequently moved to the U K in 1987 where he engaged in training in Anaesthetics, A &E, and Psychiatry. He also trained in Psychosynthesis, as well as Process Oriented Psychology. David works with people to help them through very difficult emotional periods of their lives. He is passionate in helping communities and families develop Preventative Health Care in Scotland where he now resides.
Sergio Sekhon Sergio Sekhon joined WAVE Trust's Board of Trustees in July 2024 having been an IT volunteer Expand Sergio joined the Board of Trustees in July 2024. Although Sergio is our youngest trustee, nevertheless he has been an active and reliable volunteer since 2014 helping with administrative and IT problems. He also advises WAVE on cyber security and many aspects of technology. Sergio's support enables WAVE to work efficiently. He cares deeply about WAVE's work seeing it as essential to social transformation. Sergio is working hard to grow his property business. In his spare time, Sergio enjoys personal development, and travelling and has been fortunate to spend weeks at a time in places such as Bulgaria and Indonesia.
Mr Colin Sarre Colin spent nearly 40 years as a city professional working in financial markets. He was appointed as a trustee in 2018 Expand When he retired, Colin wanted to give something back to society. He is now non-executive Director for a multi-academy Trust, a community mediator, a mentor for University students and, most recently, he joined the WAVE Trust Board. In this latter role, Colin is inspired by the work the charity plays in developing and implementing solutions to prevent and heal adverse childhood experiences. Colin's own family experience had already made him aware of how the right support can make all the difference to new parents. Colin states: 'I recognise the importance of pro-active intervention in the early years. Through WAVE Trust, I hope to help other families just as we were helped'.
Professor Sir Harry Burns Professor Sir Harry Burns is based in Strathclyde University in its Health and Care Futures Group Expand Harry Burns graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1974. For the first 15 years ofhis career, he was a surgeon and, for 5 years, was Senior Lecturer and Honorary ConsultantSurgeon in Sir David Carters unit in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. It was working in the east endof Glasgow that made him interested in the causes of wellbeing rather than the treatmentof illness. He trained in Public Health, was Medical Director of the Royal Infirmary, Directorof Public Health for Glasgow and, from 2005 until 2014 was Chief Medical Officer forScotland.As a surgeon, he researched the metabolic response to illness and injury. His interest inhealth inequalities has also centred on the biological consequences of poverty and socialdisparity. His studies have included the economic impact of health and social inequalities.He was Knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2011 and in 2014 was awarded aLifetime Achievement Award for Public Service which was presented by the First Minister onbehalf of the Scottish Government and Parliament.He currently works as a Professor at Strathclyde University in its Health and Care FuturesGroup.
Anthoulla Koutsoudi Anthoulla Is WAVE's Company Secretary and Director of External Relations Expand Anthoulla was a solicitor in private legal practice for 27 years until 2009, specialising in commercial property transactions and non-contentious legal work. During the years leading up to 2009, she provided pro-bono and financial support to WAVE. WAVE’s ever-growing sphere of influence and achievements led to an expansion of opportunities for the organisation to achieve social transformation. The possibilities excited Anthoulla such that she could no longer remain in the law. She left the legal profession in 2010 to join the management team, enabling her to present WAVE's preventive message and strategic solutions to audiences throughout the UK. Anthoulla fulfills three key roles within WAVE: Company Secretary and in-house lawyer, including handling all internal and third party contracts, governance, dealing with Companies House & Charity Commission requirements, and liaising with and chairing the Board of Trustees. Delivering Presentations across the UK on Trauma-informed Practice Director of External Relations and major donor fundraiser, including engaging with major supporters and ambassadors.
Derrick Anderson CBE Derrick served as a trustee for 10 years but had to stand down due to his many commitments. He is delighted to become a patron. Expand Derrick served as a trustee for 10 years but had to stand down due to his many commitments. He is delighted to become a patron. Derrick Anderson was Chief Executive at Lambeth Council for 10 years until he retired in 2015. Prior to that he was CEO of Wolverhampton Council for 10 years. Derrick, who was born in London, has 25 years' senior management experience in local government and more than 30 years in the public sector. He was awarded a CBE for services to local government in 2003 and voted Public Leader of the Year in the Guardian Public Services Awards 2012. He holds honorary doctorates from Staffordshire University for work on social inclusion and cultural policy from the University of Birmingham. He has a keen interest in sports and the arts, as well as working with aid and development organisations in Southern Africa and the Caribbean.