Structure and Members

The present members of the Council are:

	Chairman
		Mr Tom Murray is Law Clerk of the Edinburgh Assay Office. He is a solicitor in Edinburgh. He is a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Investor Protection Committee, and is the Purse Bearer to the Lord High Commissioner. He has a long family connection with hallmarking.
	DTI Appointees:
		Ms Linda Campbell OBE is the Chair of the food authentication and certification company PAI and non-executive director of the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA). She was previously Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) and a Director of the British Standards Institute (BSI). She was awarded an OBE in 2003 for services to accreditation.
		Mr Mike Drewry was Director of Environmental and Consumer Services for the City of Edinburgh Council. He is a qualified Trading Standards Officer and has held a number of Director level posts in Departments with responsibility for enforcing consumer protection laws and regulations. He is a Council Member of the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) and is one of the Institute’s lead officers with responsibility for hallmarking.
		Mr Martyn Pugh is a designer/maker of silverware and jewellery. His business supplies collections of silverware and jewellery and individual pieces to clients both nationally and internationally. He is a National Committee Member of the British Jewellery Association (BJA) and a Committee Member of the Association of British Designer Silversmiths.
		Mr Stefan Waclawski is a Director of the multiple retail jewellers M M Henderson Ltd, which has 25 branches mostly in Scotland. He has over twenty-five years retail jewellery experience and is currently responsible, amongst other things, for purchasing, pricing and distribution of gold, silver and diamond jewellery and dealing with the UK Assay Offices.
		Mr Fod Barnes is a former Head of Public Affairs at the National Consumer Council. He is a consultant with extensive experience of providing policy advice on consumer related matters to clients at senior level including Ministers and Sectoral Regulators. He has an interest in silversmithing.
		Dr Peter Clapham CB is a former Chief Executive of the National Engineering Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory and National Weights and Measures Laboratory. He is a now a consultant specialising in standards, testing and conformity assessment. During the past three years he has chaired the Council’s sub-office sub-committee.
		Mr Adam Green is the Managing Director of a family retail jewellery business . He has had over thirty years experience in the jewellery manufacturing and retail trade.
		Mr Eric Melrose is the former Director of Planning and Environmental Services for Aberdeenshire Council having held senior management posts directing trading standards and consumer protection activities in Grampian Council. He has chaired the Metrology Panel of LACORS and was the Scottish Champion of the DTI Consumer Direct service in Scotland.
		Mr Adrian Levett is the former head of Trading Standards at Warwickshire County Council. He has chaired several key national and regional trading standards bodies concerned with service delivery, and is a consultant in change management activities.
		Mr Derek Lassetter is a Director of Argex Limited which is a company which supplies silver and semi manufactured silver to the jewellery trade, of which he has more than 30 years experience.
	Assay Office Representatives (London):
		Mr Dick Melly is the Clerk of the Goldsmiths Company.
		Mr Richard Vanderpump was formerly head of the firm of CJ Vander, manufacturing silversmiths in Sheffield and antique dealers in silver based in Hatton Garden, although he has now retired and has no connection with the trade. He is a former Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths Company, and is Chairman of its London Assay Office Management Committee.
	Assay Office Representatives (Sheffield):
		Mr Simon Batiste is the Law Clerk of the Sheffield Office, and a barrister with Chambers in Leeds. He has a long family connection with hallmarking.
	Assay Office Representatives (Birmingham):
		Ms Kay Alexander is Chairman of the Guardians of the Birmingham Assay Office, and a Broadcaster and Journalist with the BBC.
		Mr Roland Rowell is a Guardian of the Birmingham Assay Office and a consultant and advisor in legal issues effecting consumers.
	Assay Office Representatives (Edinburgh):
		Mr Peter Nussey is a management consultant specialising in human resources issues, and Managing Director of Murrayfield Consultants Ltd. He is a member of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh.
	Co-Opted Members:
		Mr Christopher Jewitt is the Chairman of the Guardians of the Sheffield Assay Office and Chief Executive of a Sheffield tool making company.
		Mr Michael Laing OBE is Deacon of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths in Edinburgh . He is a Director of retail jewellers Laing the Jewellers and Parkhouse & Wyatt, and a member of the NAG. He has served on the Education Committee of the NAG for 20 years latterly as Chairman. His OBE was awarded in 2002 for services to hallmarking.
	Assay Masters (entitled to attend):
		Dr Robert Organ is Deputy Warden of the London Assay Office.
		Mr Michael Allchin is Assay Master of the Birmingham Assay Office.
		Mr Ashley Carson is Assay Master at the Sheffield Assay Office.
		Mr Scott Walter is Assay Master at the Edinburgh Assay Office.