AAC Members announced
10 January 2005
Elizabeth Filkin, the independent Chair of the Advertising Advisory Committee (AAC), has appointed seven members to act as a panel of “expert consumers” advising the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) on advertising regulatory policy matters. BCAP is the industry body responsible for the TV and radio advertising Codes.
The AAC members took up their posts on 1 January 2005. Their first meeting will be on 13 January 2005. Andrew Brown, the Chairman of BCAP, will sit on the Committee with them.
The Committee members are:
Jacqueline Hughes-Lundy
Jacqueline has extensive knowledge of both the public and private sectors having worked in the financial services, broadcasting and charity sectors. She has served on the Community Foundation for Greater Manchester since 2000 and is currently its Vice-President. Jacqueline was Chairman of the Independent Television Commission (the then regulatory body for television) Viewers Consultative Council for the Granada region from 1999 to 2002.
David Jessel
David Jessel was appointed as a Commissioner to the Criminal Cases Review Commission in 2000. He is also the presenter of Channel Four’s Trial and Error programme. A highly-acclaimed journalist, David has won numerous awards for his sensitive and insightful interviews. In 1998, he was awarded the RTS Special Award for his career in investigating miscarriages of justice. David continues to present news programmes for BBC World Television as well as writing documentaries.
Stephen Locke
Stephen Locke is a specialist consultant on consumer policy and regulation. He currently serves on the boards of the National Consumer Council and ICSTIS – the premium-rate telephone services regulatory body - as well as on the Consumer Panel advising the Financial Services Authority.
Previously, Stephen held a range of senior posts in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, including Consumers’ Association where he was Director of Research and Policy. His most recent full-time post was as Director of Advertising and Sponsorship at the Independent Television Commission, where he played a major part in the preparations for the new Communications Act and the creation of Ofcom, the communications super-regulator.
Colin Munro
Colin Munro is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches and writes on public law. Previously he was Professor of Law at Manchester University, following appointments at the Universities of Birmingham, Durham and Essex. Colin is a member of the Consultative Council of the British Board of Film Classification and of the Scottish Media Lawyers Society
Laura Simons
Laura Simons is an independent consultant in communications and public relations with considerable experience in the not-for-profit sector. After starting her career in the Citizens’ Advice Bureaux service, Laura moved to Consumers’ Association. She also worked as Director of Communications at the Motor Neurone Disease Association and Head of PR at the Food Standards Agency. She sat on the ITC Advertising Advisory Committee as an independent consumer representative from 2002-2003.
Jenny Watson
Jenny Watson is a Senior Human Rights Advisor for Global Partners and Associates and is Deputy Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission. She also serves as a independent director of the Banking Code Standards Board; Deputy Chair of the UK Committee on Radioactive Waste Management and the Advisory Board of the British Institute of Human Rights.
A published author, Jenny has previously worked for Liberty, Charter88, and the Human Rights Act Research Unit at King’s College, London.
Dr Michael Wilks
Dr Michael Wilks was a general practitioner who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1992 as a senior forensic physician. He now combines the police work with an active role within the British Medical Association. He has been chairman of the BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee since 1997, and is Chairman of the BMA’s policy-making body, the Representative Body. Michael has a long standing interest in medical ethics and law, in forensic medicine, and in the treatment of addictive disease. He speaks and broadcasts on issues related to medical ethics and forensic medicine.
The AAC Chair, Elizabeth Filkin said “I am delighted to announce the membership of the Advertising Advisory Committee. The quality of the candidates for the Committee was high, and I am confident that we have the best possible membership to ensure that the concerns of viewers and listeners will be effectively presented to those responsible for the regulation of broadcast advertising. “