Lord Ramsbotham is a retired British Army officer, who later served as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons. He was awarded a life peerage in 2005, and now sits on the cross benches of the House of Lords.

Judge John Samuels QC sat in the Crown Court for some 27 years, and was later a judicial member of the Parole Board for his maximum tenure of 10 years. He is President of Prisoners’ Education Trust; and, in addition to his role at Unlock, he is Vice President of AMIMB and Tempus Novo; and a Patron of Prisoners’ Advice Service. He previously chaired the Criminal Justice Alliance, and was a Trustee of the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Mark’s career is in financial services where he has held head of compliance roles for firms in various sectors including pensions; payments and insurance. He is currently Head of Compliance for a specialist (re)insurance firm. His work-related experience has included the North and South America, EEA, Africa, Singapore and Australia. Mark has also acted as Trustee for a number of charities and is currently a trustee of a charity which provides care, rehabilitation and support for adults or children with profound physical disability, acquired brain injury, and autism. Mark has a degree in law from the London School of Economics and is a member of the Institute of Charted Secretaries and Administrators; the Chartered Insurance Institute; the Chartered Bankers Institute and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments. Mark joined Unlock’s board of trustees in June 2018 and was elected as Chair in April 2020.

Salima is a solicitor at Bindmans LLP, specialising in public law and human rights. She acts regularly in public law cases arising in the criminal justice context, such as challenges to the police and CPS, including on behalf of people exercising their rights to protest, as well as in cases for people wishing to challenge cautions and disclosure on DBS certificates. She has a particular interest in representing vulnerable or marginalised people, and regularly acts on behalf of children and young people, asylum seekers and others subject to immigration control, victims of human trafficking, trans and intersex people. Prior to studying law, Salima studied psychology at UCL, obtaining a BSc in 2000 and then a PhD in 2005.
Salima joined Unlock’s board of trustees in April 2015.

Mark Day is head of policy and communications at the Prison Reform Trust, a position he has held since 2010. He is clerk to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Penal Affairs and a member of the campaign management group of the Transition to Adulthood Alliance. Previously he was deputy director of the centre-left thinktank Progress and also deputy editor of Progress Magazine. Before that he was head of communications at the international thinktank Policy Network. Mark has worked in Parliament as a researcher for an MP and also in the parliamentary office of the lobby group Stonewall. Mark joined Unlock’s board of trustees in June 2018

Faye is Head of Communications at The Health Foundation, where she works on an initiative to improve health and care in the UK. She has a background in charity communications, digital and campaigning, with previous roles at Gingerbread and Business in the Community. At Business in the Community she played a key role in the launch and ongoing success of the Ban the Box campaign - challenging employers to adopt fairer recruitment practices for people with criminal records -, and worked closely with Unlock during this time. Faye has particular interest in supporting people who are commonly stereotyped or stigmatised to have their voices and experiences heard and valued by the media, policy makers and service designers. Faye joined Unlock’s board of trustees in June 2018.

Leigh is a consultant specializing in Board assurance, compliance and governance. Before becoming self-employed Leigh worked for 25 years in the NHS in roles relating to governance, compliance and risk management. Leigh’s experience includes all aspects of quality governance and regulatory compliance. She has developed quality and improvement strategies in a number of different healthcare organisations. Leigh has a wide range of experience working with NHS Boards developing assurance frameworks, strategies, and associated risk registers and performance metrics. Leigh’s recent projects have included the development of a Board Assurance Framework and Corporate Risk Register, project management of preparations for regulatory assessment and independent investigations. Leigh also works with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the main NHS regulator, as a Specialist Advisor for Board level governance. Leigh has an MSc in Healthcare Governance (Distinction), from Loughborough University. Leigh joined Unlock’s board of trustees in June 2018.

Steve is a solicitor specialising in employment law and workplace data privacy together with advice on charity law and governance. He believes recent data protection law can be used both to limit and challenge the use of criminal records in recruitment and to support those at risk of stigmatisation and exclusion from the labour market. With a wide legal experience, he previously spent eleven years working in a law centre seeking to provide access to justice for individuals and community groups in Islington. Previously a trustee of a charity providing shelter for rough sleepers and bereavement counselling to children, he is currently a trustee of Westminster Medical School Research Trust. He joined the board of Unlock in February 2020.

Hamish has had a long career in financial services, specialising in European Equities, and has held senior positions at several US investment banks. He is currently in a senior role at an alternative asset manager that is a leading player in European Private Debt. Hamish has a passionate interest in supporting those caught up in the criminal justice system and is a trustee for a charity in the sector that delivers life and systems coaching into UK prisons. He holds a Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy from the London Business School and a BSc (Hons) in Statistics with Management Science Techniques from Cardiff University. Hamish joined Unlock’s board of trustees in May 2020.

Mandy's personal experience of the criminal justice system convinced her of the need to support prisoners with greater access to information and opportunities for self-improvement. Upon her release from prison, Mandy returned to full-time study and obtained a BA(Hons) degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) from King's College London, where she also served as trustee for the Students' Union (2016-17). Mandy maintains a particular interest in supporting BAME women in prison and victims of sexual assault. She works with a number of organisations to promote reform in the British criminal justice system and improve the prospects of people with criminal convictions. Mandy joined Unlock as a trustee in 2020

Nigel is a business owner and financial consultant. Previous to establishing his own company in 2012 Nigel worked for a variety of financial institutions, both in the UK and overseas. During his career Nigel has help run the investment strategies for a range of charities and sporting clubs. Previously a Chartered Fellow of the Securities Institute, Nigel's recent work has focused around evaluating the financial performance of companies and organisations in the Not for Profit sector, helping institutions to achieve their financial and wider strategic plans.
Nigel joined Unlock’s board of trustees in April 2015.

Mike has a thirty year career in the health, social care and criminal justice arenas. Previously working as a Probation Officer in Sussex, he has for the last twenty one years, been a Senior Executive within Change, Grow, Live (formerly CRI) a UK charity providing drug and alcohol treatment services, rehabilitative interventions in the justice system and a host of associated services. With a long history of operational leadership, Mike has for the last five years been accountable for business and organisational development – responsible for central functions including business development, human resources, learning & development, volunteering, equality, diversion & inclusion and marketing & communications. Mike has a Masters in social work from Sussex University, an MBA from the Open University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Emma is a qualified solicitor. After Allen & Overy and then as head of legal in various multinationals, Emma now operates as a consultant (providing legal support and also management skills training to lawyers). Emma’s involvement in the criminal justice system ranges from her experience as a Referral Order Panel member, as a volunteer for the charity StoryBook Dads in HMP Wandsworth and as an Independent Monitoring Board member at a women’s prison. She has experience as a trustee of various charities. Emma has a law degree from Queens’ College Cambridge. She joined Unlock as a trustee in February 2020.