Dame Suzi has been Chair of the Charity Commission since August 2006. Her previous chairing roles include the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the School Food Trust, an NHS Trust and a community project. Dame Suzi was also the first Deputy Chair of the Food Standards Agency. She has volunteered with Age Concern, the Probation Service, a community playgroup, a community food project and a grassroots project to support older people in their own homes.

Suzi's academic background is in politics, social work and probation. Her particular interests include food policy, nutrition and poverty, the needs of low-income consumers and the impact of European policies on UK consumers.

Simon Jones joined as a Member of the Commission in July 2007. With his extensive knowledge and experience of the charity sector in Wales, Simon fulfilled the Charities Act 2006 requirement for such knowledge to be represented on the Commission's Board. Simon is Head of Public Sector, Wales for the executive search company, Odgers Berndtson. Until the end of 2008 he was Chair of Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust. For 10 years he was Chief Executive of the Wales co-operative Centre. He is a former Chair of the Independent Commission to review the National Assembly for Wales' Voluntary Sector Scheme. He also chaired the Communities First Support Network and has wide media experience, including having been a presenter for Radio Wales.

John Knight CBE is a high-profile policy analyst and campaigner, with over 20 years experience across the statutory and voluntary sectors. He was for over 16 years Director of Policy and Campaigns at Leonard Cheshire Disability. A founding member of the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) and once a Trustee of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), he has also previously held Board level positions on national regulatory agencies - the Commission for Social Care Inspection and General Social Care Council. John brings a strong understanding of equality issues, regulation, campaigning and public service delivery.

Sharmila Nebhrajani enjoys a varied career spanning media, technology and health. She spent 12 years at the BBC where she was most recently the Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director of BBC Future Media and Technology managing the business functions of bbc.co.uk including the launch of the iPlayer. For the last two years she has been Executive Director of Finance and Performance for NHS Sussex.

She started her career in management consulting after graduating in Physiological Sciences from Oxford University and worked on corporate finance and strategy projects for a range of private sector clients in media, telecoms and technology around the world.

She has held non-executive roles in the health and science sectors including Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the body that regulates all embryo research and licences assisted reproduction clinics in the UK, and Board Member of the Human Tissue Authority which regulates the storage and use of human tissue.

She is currently in her second term as Board Member of the Charity Commission. She has also recently been appointed to the General Council of the University of Sussex and the Audit Committee of the Institute for Cancer Research. In addition to her non-executive work she took a World Fellowship at Yale University in the US in 2007 where she lectured on both media policy and practical cases in medical ethics.

Sharmila joins the AMRC in November 2011 and she is based in Brighton.

Theo Sowa CBE joined as a Member of the Commission in July 2007.

Theo is an independent advisor working on a wide range of international issues with a focus on social development and children and youth issues.

Her work covers evaluation, facilitation, policy and organisational development with a range of international and intergovernmental organizations and grant making foundations, including UNICEF, Stephen Lewis Foundation, African Women's Development Fund, DFID, UNDP, amongst others.

Simon Wethered joined as a Member of the Commission in July 2007 and is one of the Commission's two legally-qualified Members. Simon is a legal consultant specialising in charities with Charles Russell LLP and was formerly a partner there. He has 37 years experience as a solicitor, nine specialising in charity work. He is a member of the Charity Law Association, associate member of the Charity Finance Directors' Group and co–editor of Butterworth's Charity Law handbook.

John Wood joined the Commission on 1 February 2008 and is one of the two legally-qualified Members of the Commission. John is a consultant with Herbert Smith LLP.

He was a partner of the firm for 25 years and headed up its Trust and Charities practice.

He is a member of the Charity Law Association and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). He is a founder and committee member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS).

He is also an executive member of the Trust Law Committee and a CEDR qualified mediator.

Christopher Daws has been the independent member of the audit committee since August 2009.

Until 2007, Christopher was the financial and deputy secretary of the Church Commissioners for England. He has been treasurer of a major parish church. He is a trustee of Action for Children and chairman of the Action for Children Pension Fund. He is on the management committee of the Charity Investors' Group. He is also a member of the Board for Actuarial Standards, an operating body of the Financial Reporting Council.

Christopher is a chartered accountant and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Sam Younger joined the Charity Commission as chief executive in September 2010. Sam has extensive experience of leadership in regulation, in public policy and in charity. His previous roles include founding Chair of the Electoral Commission, Director General of the British Red Cross, and Managing Director of the BBC World Service. After leaving the Electoral Commission he was interim Chief Executive of the housing charity, Shelter, and also held interim roles with the educational charity Bell Educational Trust and with the Electoral Reform Society.

Sam is an independent member of the Greater London Authority Standards Committee. His previous non-executive roles include Chair of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and Chair of Council at the University of Sussex.

Sam was appointed Commander of the British Empire in 2009. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and holds a number of honorary and advisory roles in academia.

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