Professor Maureen Edmondson (Chair)
Maureen has worked in the food industry for much of her career and has held a number of roles in public sector and not-for-profit organisations. She spent 20 years in International Scientific Affairs at Mars Incorporated and later held public positions at Postwatch, the Food Standards Agency and is currently Chair of the Patient and Client Council. Maureen holds a degree and PhD from Queens University of Belfast . She is Immediate Past President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology and Chair of Governors of Edgehill Theological College. She was a member of the Communications Consumer Panel between 2008 and 2012 as the member for Northern Ireland.
John Ellison
John Ellison is a modern languages graduate who worked for BT for 36 years, transferring from London to Northern Ireland in 1987. In the last 17 years of his time with BT he took over responsibility for, amongst other things, the regulatory and regulatory compliance interfaces for BT in Northern Ireland. He also represented BT Northern Ireland interests in regulation and regulatory compliance at BT Group level, as well as, latterly, having a broader strategic regulatory/compliance role across various BT lines of business.
Kathy Graham
Kathy Graham is a public policy, strategic development and stakeholder engagement consultant with a career spanning 20 years leading public sector, private, community and voluntary organisations. Most recently Kathy was Director of Policy within the Consumer Council for Northern Ireland. There she led policy work in regulated and unregulated industries including Energy, Transport, Post, Water and Money Affairs, as well as leading on consumer complaints and service improvement. Kathy has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and an MSc in Occupational Psychology. She is a Trustee and Director of Age NI and a member of Annalong Primary School Board of Governors.
Fiona MacMillan
Fiona MacMillan is a communications and public affairs consultant and has worked in the voluntary, public and private sectors. She has worked with leading children’s charity Barnardo’s and Alzheimer’s Society. Fiona has worked with many arts organisations and is a guest lecturer on lobbying and public policy on the MA in Arts Management at Queen’s University. She has a particular interest in the creative industries in Northern Ireland and their contribution to the economy and is a Board Member of Northern Ireland Screen.
Alan Meban
Alan Meban is a freelancer who can often be found conducting interviews, writing articles or attending civic events and academic as well as party political conferences, live-tweeting proceedings, hosting sessions, streaming or recording audio and video to publish online and extend the audience and boost impact. For 21 years, Alan was a designer and enterprise architect in IT departments at BT supporting a range of lines of business as well as external customers. He was appointed to the BBC Audience Council of Northern Ireland between 2007 and 2012. He chairs the FactCheckNI advisory panel, convenes the Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s IT Panel, and provides part time communications support around refugee and asylum issues for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.
Paul Wilson
Paul is an Electronic Engineer, with over 20 years experience in the private sector, working with BT and ICL CFM. In his role with BT he was responsible for various stages and partnership arrangements for significant services delivered into the public sector across Northern Ireland, GB and Republic of Ireland. He was part of the leadership team in BT Ireland, involved in partnerships in different guises including sales, delivery and overall management.
He specialised in communications, specifically data communications, and latterly the merging of technology delivered over IP platforms. Currently Paul is leading the procurement of a Shared Network for the NI Public Sector.
Carrie Matchett
Carrie Matchett is a self-employed consultant specialising in governance and strategy. She has over twenty years’ experience working in audience-facing roles for the BBC in Northern Ireland and across the UK. Most recently she led the Northern Ireland office of the BBC Trust, working to ensure that the views of local stakeholders and audiences impacted on major decisions about the BBC, its strategy and services. She has a strong interest in representing consumer interests in the rapidly developing communications sector.
Carrie is Vice Chair of Thrive, the charity which leads audience development across the arts and culture sector in Northern Ireland.
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As well as the appointed Members of the Advisory Committee, the Content Board Member, and the Communications Consumer Panel Member for the respective Nations are invited to attend Advisory Committee Meetings.
In Northern Ireland this is:
- Richard Hill MBE - Communications Consumer Panel
- Angelina Fusco - Content Board
