This page provides information about the declared current and recent interests of members of the Selection Panel.

For further information about a member of the King’s Counsel Selection Panel please click on the relevant name.

Monisha Shah (Chair)

  • Chair, Wikimedia UK
  • Chair, Caterham School
  • Senior Independent Member (Chair) of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • Trustee, Art Fund
  • Trustee, Royal Collection Trust
  • Board Director and Council Member, Advertising Standards Authority

Dr Douglas Board

  • Founder/director, Maslow’s Attic Ltd
  • Senior visiting fellow and member of the Centre for Professional Service Firms, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City University of London. From March 2023 took up appointment as co-chair of the Bayes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council
  • Adviser to Oresa (executive search and strategy in the retail and consumer sectors)
  • Visiting professor, University of Chichester Business School

Matthew Chapman KC

  • Personal Injuries Bar Association, Member
  • Professional Negligence Bar Association, Member
  • London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association, Member
  • Travel and Tourism Lawyers’ Association, Member
  • Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, Member
  • Fee-paid Employment Judge (until 2023)
  • Recorder (Crime) (from 2023)
  • Deka Chambers, London, Member

Paul Grant

  • Director and Responsible individual – Fostering Dimensions Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director – Cafcass
  • Professional Conduct/Fitness to Practice Panel member roles: Farriers Registration Council; General Osteopathic Council; Bar Standards Board; Social Work England; Nursing & Midwifery Council; British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy; and the Registration Council for Clinical Physiology
  • Member of Test of Competence Assurance Advisory group for the Nursing & Midwifery Council

John Montague

  • Practising Solicitor working for the CPS Wessex

Sir Paul Morgan

  • Arbitrator and mediator practising from Wilberforce Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn, London.

Sara Nathan

  • Tribunal Chair for Social Work England
  • Chair, Regulatory & Conduct Appointments Committee, ICAEW
  • Lay Assessor for GLA Appointments
  • Trustee, Refugees at Home

Dame Anne Rafferty DBE

  • Chancellor of University of Sheffield

Mena Ruparel

  • Founder/Director of MLSH LTD