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David Lammy announces reappointment of six members of Spoliation Advisory Panel
Culture Minister David Lammy today announced that six members of the Government's Spoliation Advisory Panel have been reappointed for a third term.
The members reappointed are Anna Southall, Professor Peter Jones, Peter Oppenheimer, Professor Richard Evans, Sir Terry Heiser and Sir Donnell Deeny.
The Panel was set up in April 2000 to help resolve claims made for cultural objects lost during the Nazi era between 1933 and 1945. The Panel provides advice to claimants, those who hold the items in question and Government. The Panel has advised on six claims since it was established.
Notes to Editors
The reappointments began on 13 April 2007 and will run until 12 April 2010. Panel members may claim a daily rate of £208 per eight-hour day plus reasonable expenses.
Sir Donnell Deeny Sir Donnell was called to the Bar in 1974 and took silk in 1989. Public appointments held include Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland between 1993 and 1998 (Member 1991-93). He has also served as Chairman of Opera Northern Ireland between 1988 and 1992 and as a Trustee of the Ulster Museum, 1983-85.
Sir Donnell is the Chairman of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust and President of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. Sir Donnell is a High Court judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland. He has not undertaken significant political activity on behalf of any political party, since 1985.
Professor Richard Evans Professor Evans is currently Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. From 1976-82 he was a Lecturer in European History at University of East Anglia and from 1983-89 Professor of EUROPEAN History at the same university. From 1989 to 1998 he was professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London.
He was Vice-Master between 1993 and 1998 and acting master of the college during 1997. Professor Evans holds no other public appointments. His many publications include: Telling Lies about Hitler (2002), The Coming of the Third Reich (2003) and The Third Reich in Power (2005). Professor Evans has not undertaken significant political activity on behalf of any political party.
Sir Terry Heiser Sir Terry was Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment between 1985 and 1992 when he retired from the Civil Service. He has been a Non-executive Director of a number of PLCs. He is a member of the council of the University of Sussex. He has not undertaken any significant activity on behalf of any political party.
Professor Peter Jones Professor Jones is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, where he was also Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities until 2000. He has held numerous Fellowships and Visiting Professorships overseas; was a Drafting member, Woodrow Wilson Centre seminar on Human Rights, Washington, 1994; member, UNESCO forum on Tolerance, Tblisi, Georgia, 1995; member UNESCO dialogue on Europe and Islam, 1997. He served on the Governing body of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh, several schools, and was Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland from 1987 to 1999.
He is the author of a dozen books and over 100 articles on philosophical and cultural topics. Professor Jones has not undertaken significant political activity on behalf of any political party. Peter Oppenheimer Peter Oppenheimer has been a Student (ie Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford since 1967 and is now President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. In 1976-77 he was the National Westminster Bank Visiting Professor of International Finance at the London Graduate School of Business Studies. Between 1985 and 1986 he was seconded to the Shell International Petroleum Company as Chief Economist. Mr Oppenheimer has been a non-executive Director of a variety of companies, both public and private (including Dixons plc, Oxford University Press and the Jewish Chronicle Newspaper) as well as a Governor for four schools.
He is an experienced broadcaster and his publications include "International Monetary Arrangements: The Limits to Planning" 1979; co-editor of "Quest for World Monetary Order" 1980 and co-editor and contributor "Russia's Post-Communist Economy (OUP, 2001). Mr Oppenheimer has not undertaken significant political activity on behalf of any political party.
Anna Southall Ms Southall chaired the Barrow Cadbury Trust from 1996-2006 and remains a trustee. She sat on two recent Commissions on the Criminal Justice System - the Fawcett Commission on Women (2004), and Barrow Cadbury's Commission on Young People (2005). She is Vice Chair of the Big Lottery Fund, a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Charitable Foundations and sits on a number of government panels including the Cabinet Office's Advisory Panel on Futurebuilders.
She was Director of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales (1998-2002), Chief Executive of the MLA, Museums Libraries and Archives Council until 2003, and from 2003-6 the Vice Chair and then Chair of Icon, the Institute for Conservation. Ms Southall has not undertaken any significant activity on behalf of any political party.
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