Co-Chair
 

Claire is a Non-Executive Director of Media for Development and a member of the UK Advisory Board of Board Apprentice, and formerly a Non-Executive Director of Sports Direct International plc and Retro Classics Fund, as well as being a Co-Chair of Amicus. Prior to building her non-executive portfolio, her most recent executive role was as Group Director, Corporate Affairs, responsible for the company’s sustainability and communications activities, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team at Rexam PLC, a leading global beverage can maker (acquired by Ball Corporation in 2016). Prior to that she was a member of the Management Committee of international tobacco company Gallaher Group Plc (acquired by Japan Tobacco in 2007) where she was responsible for investor relations and Group planning. Claire has also gained corporate experience in various consulting roles, including as co-founder of an investor relations consultancy in the mid-1990s, and at Laing & Cruickshank. She began volunteering for Amicus in 1993, became a Trustee in 2001 and Co-Chair in 2006.

Co-Chair
 

Jo is Assistant General Counsel for Dispute Resolution with the BP Group. She is based at BP’s headquarters in London and handles material high risk disputes globally, as well as advising on contentious risk at the Group level. Jo trained and qualified at Slaughter and May and also practiced as a Dispute Resolution specialist at Herbert Smith before joining BP’s Dispute Resolution team in 2003. Prior to this she studied Mandarin Chinese at St. John’s College, Oxford University and spent several years as a commodity trader specialising in Chinese commodities before becoming a lawyer. She has considerable experience in human rights law and advises on human rights issues in the business context, as well as having a longstanding commitment to providing fair representation for those facing the death penalty. She was one of the founding directors of the Andrew Lee Jones Fund (now Amicus) and is now Co-Chair of Amicus. She is also a trustee of the Caribbean Capital Cases Trust and has represented a number of Caribbean death penalty prisoners in their appeals to the Privy Council.

Trustee
 

Mark is a barrister, bencher of Inner Temple and Head of Chambers at Garden Court North Chambers in Manchester where he specialises in criminal law. For the last two-and-a-half years he has been representing 22 of the families involved in the Inquests of those who died in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. In 1998 he assisted two local attorneys working on a capital murder case awaiting trial in Lamar County, Texas. He has been involved with Amicus for over fifteen years. A regular speaker at the training sessions in London, he also writes articles on death penalty law and procedure in the United States for the Amicus Journal. Each year he speaks at a number of universities and law colleges about the work of Amicus. He has helped to write a number of amicus curiae briefs to the US Supreme Court where comparison with the law of England & Wales has been relevant.