page_title: Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
section_title: Appointments
hierarchical_section_title: Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws / Appointments
caption_attribution_description: English: Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws in London, England. She signs to pledge her support to The Convention on Modern Liberty at the start of a campaign at The Foreign Press Association in Pall Mall, London last night on 15 January 2009.
context_page_description: Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, QC, FRSA, HonFRSE is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She served as Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford from 2011 to 2018.
context_section_description: President, Helena Kennedy Foundation
  President of the Board the Governors of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
  President, Women of the Year Lunch (2010–2015)
  Chair, JUSTICE
  Chair of the Board of Governors for the United World College of the Atlantic
  President, Medical Aid for Palestinians
  Patron, Burma Campaign UK, the London-based group campaigning for human rights and democracy in Burma
  Member of the Board of Independent News and Media
  Trustee, KPMG Foundation
  Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University (1994–2001)
  Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University (appointed in 2018)
  Chair, British Council (1998–2004)
  Chair, Human Genetics Commission (1998–2007)
  President of the National Children's Bureau (1998–2005)
  Kennedy chaired the Power Commission (November 2005 – March 2006), which examined the problem of democratic disengagement in the United Kingdom. A report was produced which highlighted the "Myth of Apathy" and the lack of political engagement
  Chair of Power 2010, which aimed to carry forward the concepts behind the Power Commission into the UK 2010 General Election
  Member of the World Bank Institute's External Advisory Council
  Member of the board of the British Museum
  Vice-President of the Haldane Society
  Vice-President of the Association of Women Barristers
  Patron, London International Festival of Theatre liftfestival.com
  Patron, Institute for Learning (IfL) http://www.ifl.ac.uk
  Patron, Liberty
  Patron, UNLOCK, The National Association of Ex-Offenders
  Patron, Debt Doctors Foundation UK (DD-UK)
  Patron, Tower Hamlets Summer University
  Patron, Rights Watch (UK)
  Patron of SafeHands for Mothers, a UK-based charity whose mission is to improve maternal and newborn health by harnessing the power of the visual, through the production of films.
  Chair, Howard League's Commission of Inquiry into Violence in Penal Institutions for Young People (the final report, Banged Up, Beaten Up, Cutting Up, published in 1995)
  Chair, Reading Borough Council's Commission of Inquiry into the health, environmental and safety aspects of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston (final report Secrecy versus Safety, published in 1994)
  Chair, Royal Colleges of Pathologists' and of Pædiatrics' Inquiry into Sudden Infant Death (producing a protocol for the investigation of such deaths in 2004)
  Member of the Foreign Policy Centre's Advisory Council
  Formerly UK member of the International Bar Association's Task Force on Terrorism
  As Commissioner of the National Commission for Education, she chaired a committee on widening participation in further education and the Commission's report, Learning Works, published in 1997.
  Chair, Booker Prize Foundation (2015–2020)
  Vice President of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (from 2017)
caption: Kennedy signing The Convention on Modern Liberty in January 2009
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