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Trustees
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Prof Phil Redmond CBE is probably best known as the creator of three of Britain's longest-running drama programmes: Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks. He has also written extensively for radio, television and stage and is currently a regular columnist for the Liverpool Daily Post.
Phil was awarded the honorary chair of media at Liverpool John Moores University in 1989. Since 1993 he has also been a fellow and member of the board of trustees, as well as founding and chairing the International Centre for Digital Content (ICDC), also based at LJMU.
Phil was a founder member of the first regional branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Manchester and in 1996 was elected as fellow of Royal Society of Arts. In 1997 he was appointed vice chair of the newly created North West Film Commission, becoming a patron in 1999. He was awarded a CBE for services to drama in June 2004.
Phil served on Liverpool's Capital of Culture Board from November 2006, eventually as deputy chair, and also as creative director from September 2007. Both he and his wife, Alexis, have long-standing links with and are major benefactors of National Museums Liverpool.
John Ashton is well known across the North West as the public face of modern public health. He holds chairs in Public Health at the University of Liverpool Medical School, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Liverpool John Moores University. Having been North West Regional Director of Public Health for 13 years he is now Director of Public Health and County Medical Officer for Cumbria. Throughout his career John has worked closely with the worlds of culture, media and sport, most notably having enjoyed a long collaboration with Adrian Henri. Drawing on his background in psychiatry he has made extensive connections between the arts and well-being. Coming from an old Woolton family John maintains his extensive links with Liverpool, dividing his time between Woolton and Cumbria.
Carmel is a partner at AMION Consulting which specialises in providing financial and economic consulting advice across the private and public sectors. She is a chartered accountant with considerable consulting experience of working with major developers, central and local government, public private partnerships, NDPBs, social enterprises, charities and other private sector clients.
Building upon audit, consulting and commercial transaction services experience at KPMG and Deloitte, Carmel specialises in providing a range of financial, strategy, operational and efficiency advice on major infrastructure projects, transformational change programmes, organisational change and commercial ventures between the public and private sectors. She has considerable experience of raising finance and business planning for major developments and projects across a range of sectors including sport and leisure, transport, tourism and culture, housing, regeneration, waste, energy, health and housing.
Carmel lives in the Calderstones area of Liverpool and has two young children.
Laura Carstensen is a member and former deputy chairman of the Competition Commission, a role she took on after a career in City law as a partner in Slaughter and May where she specialised in advising major corporates on competition and markets issues, notably in relation to mergers and acquisitions.
She has conducted numerous merger and market inquiries at the Competition Commission, including chairing the Movies on Pay TV, BAA Airports and Audit inquiries. She holds a number of appointments in the healthcare and higher education sectors including as chair of the Council of The Women's Library, an internationally recognised archive and museum of the women's suffrage movement; a governor of London Metropolitan University, a university with a commitment to social justice and widening participation. She is a non-executive director of the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust Hospital and of Chester Renaissance.
Throughout her career she has been committed to promoting equality of opportunity and in 2009 the charity Working Families nominated her as one of their '30th anniversary Pioneers' for her leadership role in the City. Originally from Manchester, she relocated back to the North West in 2004 with her husband and six children and now lives near Chester.
Sir Robert was director general (1995-2008) and deputy director general (1982-1995) of the Imperial War Museum (IWM), which he joined in 1968. He contributed to many of its major developments including the establishment of IWM North in Trafford, the opening and further extension of the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, the modernisation of IWM's London headquarters and the creation of its permanent Holocaust Exhibition and the American Air Museum and AirSpace at IWM Duxford.
Sir Robert was chairman of the National Museums Directors Conference from 2000-6 and the National Inventory of War Memorials from 1995-2008, deputy chairman of the Museums Documentation Association from 1998-2006, and a member of the National Historic Ships Committee until 2006. He retired in 2008 and serves on the boards of a number of museums and heritage organisations.
Professionally Nisha is a full time practicing barrister based in Liverpool, working in the area of child protection. She has lectured nationally in the area of forensic psychology. She is also an active member of the Northern Circuit and the Family Law Bar Association, the Lawyers Christian Fellowship.
She has been a trustee of National Museums Liverpool since 2008. In 2009 the Cabinet Office appointed her as an Ambassador for Diversity in Public Appointments and she has been engaged in this capacity as an expert advisor by The Guardian newspaper. A keen arts enthusiast, Nisha has co-devised and run an arts education programme for schools in San Francisco. She also runs an Indian cookery course with her mother under the name of 'Two Brown Ladies'.
Norman was senior adviser to the president of the J Paul Getty Trust between 2002 and 2006, where he was responsible for liaison between the Trust and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Before this he pursued a career in the media, working in television production with Screen Gems Television, then moving to Bryna Productions, (Kirk Douglas’s production company) in 1962. From 1972 he was sole proprietor of the Norman Kurland Agency which represented writers and directors in film and television. The company then changed to become the Broder/ Kurland Agency where he served as president (1977 to 2001). He is a director of Scala Publishers and serves as the communications advisor to the Courtauld Institute. He became a trustee of National Museums Liverpool in December 2006.
Neil is chief executive and director general of Merseytravel, which has been transformed into an award-winning learning organisation under his leadership with the establishment of Merseylearn. Previously he was an independent transport and engineering consultant working for the World Bank on projects across Europe. Educated at a technical school, he has a BSc in engineering, an MSc in Control Engineering and Computer systems, an MBA and is a Fellow of the three major engineering institutions.
Neil was elected President of the European Platform on Mobility Management - a network of European governments. He is a board member of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership and the British Transport Police Authority and chairs ACT TravelWise, which promotes sustainable travel, the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and The Real Time Information Group.
Deborah has over 30 years' experience working in housing, the last 11 of which have been as chief executive of the Riverside Group. Riverside specialises in regeneration and supported housing and was voted Social Landlord of the Year 2008 and 2009. In 2008 she was awarded a CBE for her services to the housing sector. Deborah is also a governor of Liverpool John Moores University, non-executive director of Sefton PCT and member of the North West Regional Leaders' Board.
After working as a junior doctor around Merseyside for ten years, Nicola was appointed as consultant in clinical oncology at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology (CCO) in 2001. She specialises in breast and gastrointestinal cancer and paediatric radiotherapy. She is associate medical director at CCO and is a staff representative on the board of governors. She is national chair of the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group Radiotherapy Group and is a member of the National Proton Panel. She was a member of the board of governors of the Belvedere Junior School between 2008 and 2010, holding the post of acting chair in the latter part of this period. Nicola now lives in Oxton with her husband and three children.
The Trustee Register of Interests is available to download here.