Sarah Tyacke (Chair)
Sarah Tyacke CB, was Keeper of Public Records for the United Kingdom Government from 1992 to 2006 and Historical Manuscripts Commissioner and Chief Executive of The National Archives of England and Wales from 2003 to 2006. She recently retired from these posts. Previously, she was Director of Special Collections at the British Library from 1986 to 1991. She served as Vice President of the International Council on Archives (ICA) from 1996 to 2000 and as President of the Hakluyt Society from 1997 to 2002. Mrs Tyacke was responsible for the strategic approach to records management and digital records in UK government and the wider public sector, and implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2005 in respect of archives.
Maja Daruwala
Daruwala sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Maja Daruwala is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international NGO that works to support human rights within the Commonwealth. A lawyer with extensive international experience, she has worked with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India (1992 to 1996) and with The Law and Society Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1980 to 1986). Mrs Daruwala writes regularly for the national press in India on the protection of civil liberties and the promotion of good governance. She is concerned, in particular, with supporting greater accountability through police reform and greater participation for the public through the promotion of widespread human rights education. She has edited two reports on the status of poverty and right to information prepared for biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meetings. Mrs Daruwala is Chair of the Minority Rights Group International in London; member of the State Council for Right to Information, Government of Delhi; and member of the Commonwealth Foundation’s Civil Society Advisory Committee. She sits on several other governing boards and advisory councils, including the Open Society Justice Initiative, the International Women’s Health Coalition (both based in New York) and the Voluntary Action Network India, an umbrella organisation aimed at protecting civil society.
Michael Gilibrand
Michael Gillibrand is a non-executive director of a private British lease finance company, a member of the Academy of Corporate Governance (a research association based in Hyderabad, India); he also serves as an adviser to the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance. Mr Gillibrand spent nine years as the special adviser and departmental director responsible for public sector reform and governance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Previously, he spent a total of 20 years as the resident chief adviser at government ministries in the Middle East and as managing director for the Middle East for a large US research and consultancy company. In addition, he directs and helps to implement a wide range of policy, strategy and investment assignments for governments and large private sector corporations in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South and South East Asia and the Caribbean.
Philip Murphy
Philip Murphy is director of the Instituteof Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth at the Universityof London. He is joint editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Much of his research to date has been on aspects of post-war British decolonization, particularly inAfrica. Philip is currently writing a book about the British Monarchy and the Post-War Commonwealth for Oxford University Press. As well as a broader interest in the Conservative party, right wing politics inBritain, and the European colonial empires since the nineteenth century, he is also interested in post-war African politics. Philip’s interests also extend to the field of Intelligence History with a particular interest in the activities of MI5 (the Security Service) in the colonial Empire and he maintains a general interest in the activities of the British, Commonwealth and US intelligence communities in the twentieth century.
Jeremy Pope
Jeremy Pope was a founder member of Transparency International (TI) and served for five years as its founding Managing Director. With Fredrik Galtung, he now heads TIRI (the governance-access-learning network), which specialises in research, training, building networks and developing new tools for fighting corruption. He had his own private practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand prior to working, between 1976 and 1993, as Director of its Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Legal Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary General. He has published widely on legal topics and current affairs. Among other activities, Mr Pope was legal adviser to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group in South Africa in 1986, and has been responsible for the observing of elections in Bangladesh, Ghana, Namibia and Uganda. He has advised over 40 governments on a variety of matters and has worked with many NGOs in partnership, including work with INTERIGHTS. He is the author of Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System (now in 25 languages).
Joseph Rugumyamheto
The Honourable Joseph Rugumyamheto, a graduate of Stanford University, spent 30 years in the Tanzania public service, ultimately serving for five years as the Permanent Secretary for Public Service Management in the President’s Office, where he reported directly to the President of Tanzania. He was responsible for all civil servants in the Government of Tanzania and for human resource management and development policies. He is widely credited with being instrumental in achieving wide-ranging reform in the Tanzanian public service and for achieving enormous improvement in public service delivery to the poor. He contributed to development in numerous capacities including serving as Chairman of the Government Board of the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute, Member of the Board of Research on Poverty Elimination, and Chairman of the Board of Global Development Learning Centre Network. The Honourable Rugumyamheto retired in January 2006, and is now Chairman of the Board/Director at Douglas Lake Minerals Limited, a joint venture company holding mineral concession rights in Tanzania. In April 2006 he was awarded, at the World Bank, the Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service. His steadfast encouragement of good governance reforms and his distinguished contribution to the public good through effective public service reforms were honoured.