Our Trustees
Professor Jill Manthorpe
Jill Manthorpe, CBE, is Emerita Professor of Social Work at King's College London. She was Director of the NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Policy Research Unit and King’s for over 20 years, where her work spanned the activities of several government departments. She has long-standing interests in education, safeguarding, socio-welfare law and practice, and research capacity building in the UK and globally. She has been a non-executive director of NHS Trusts and Trustee of several voluntary sector organisations focussing on housing, welfare, disability and research. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sunderland, is Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne and Queen’s University Belfast, and was SR Nathan Visiting Professor at the University of Singapore.
Her recent research has addressed making the most of data in public services, the prevention of modern slavery, the representation of social problems, and the potential for former armed service personnel to work in the care sector. She provides consultancy to local authorities and advice to universities in the UK and globally. She advises research funding panels across the UK, Europe, Arabia and Southeast Asia.
Professor Michael Clarke
Professor Michael Clarke was Director General of the Royal United Services Institute from 2015-2017. Prior to that he was Professor of Defence Studies at King’s College London, and Deputy Vice Principal for Research Development. He remains a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and also at the University of Exeter.
He has been a Specialist Advisor to a number of Parliamentary Select Committees, most notably the House of Commons Defence Committee from 1997-2019, and the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy from 2016-2024. He has also served on the Prime Minister’s Security Forum and the Chief of Defence Staff’s Strategic Advisory Panel. In 2014-15 he chaired the Independent Surveillance Review on Behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister.
He is currently Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a Fellow of King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
Since 2022 he has been Defence and Security Analyst for Sky News.
Peter Lloyd
Peter Lloyd is a retired senior police officer, having spent his entire service in intelligence gathering and analytical roles, and was responsible for establishing Police Scotland’s Internet Investigations Unit, the first of its type in the UK.
In his last 3 years of service, Peter was seconded to the National Police Chiefs Council as the Capability Manager and Chief Constable advisor for Internet Intelligence and Investigations. During this time, he created and implemented the UK Law Enforcement’s policy for Internet Intelligence & Investigations, and authored the national Strategic Guidance for the capability.
Peter has been involved at a national level, developing strategy and capability for Open Source and online investigative techniques for over 15 years.
Since retirement, Peter has co-founded Numitor, a company that creates data analysis and visualisation solutions for law enforcement and the regulated financial sector, and The Online Eye, a company that undertakes online research, investigation, and monitoring for corporate bodies to identify and mitigate risk.
Peter is passionate about online investigation and ensuring that tools, techniques, and practices are ethically sound.
Peter Waring
Peter Waring is an innovation consultant for the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. In this role he manages projects that sit at the interface of technology, foresight, systems change, and peacebuilding. Peter’s work is aimed at providing data-driven support to the Department and UN missions across the world.
He is the co-host and co-creator of the multi-award winning Audible Original podcast, Deepest Dive: The Search for MH370. He is an experienced open-source investigator and has managed a variety of projects for Ridgeway Information, a London based research consultancy.
Previously, he spent 11 years as an officer in the Australian Navy, during which he led a science mission to Antarctica, deployed operationally to the Middle East, and served as Deputy Operations Manager for the search for missing Malaysian jetliner MH370.