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Richard Kemp

Richard Kemp (born April 1959) is a former British Army officer whom Ha'aretz has described as 'a favorite of the British pro-Israel lobby'Anshel Pfeffer, British lawyer, retired officer take opposing sides over Gaza war crimes, Ha'aretz, 30 October 2009 for making statements exonerating Israel for the war crimes it committed in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. In July 2009 he told a JCPA audience in Jerusalem: "the IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other Army in the history of warfare".Gene Zitver, Colonel Richard Kemp on Cast Lead, Harry's Place, 4 July 2009. Kemp is of course talking about an army which, according to Judge Richard Goldstone, targeted the "people of Gaza as a whole" in a war that was designed to "humiliate and terrorize a civilian population”.The Goldstone Report on Gaza, UN Human Rights Council, 15 September 2009 Nor is Kemp's view shared by the Israelis who actually participated in the assault.Donald MacIntyre, Israeli soldiers reveal the brutal truth of Gaza attack, The Independent, July 2009 
==Cast Lead Testimony==
During Israel's assault on Gaza Kemp appeared on television disputing allegations that Israel was engaged in war crimes. It was not clear however what was the basis of his claims since he had no more access to Gaza in this period than did the world media except Al Jazeera. In June 2009, Kemp wrote a document entitled "Hamas, The Gaza War, and Accountability under International Law" for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in which he claimed that Hamas discarded their uniform once fighting began and deployed women and children as suicide attackers. He also claimed that in Gaza "women and children are trained and equipped to fight, collect intelligence and ferry arms and ammunition between battles".HAMAS, THE GAZA WAR AND ACCOUNTABILITY UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 18 June 2009
In October 2009, Kemp also made a presentation to the UN Human Rights Council on behalf of UN Watch in response to the Goldstone ReportThe Goldstone Report on Gaza, UN Human Rights Council, 15 September 2009 which documents Israeli war crimes committed during its assault on GazaUK Commander Challenges Goldstone Report, UN Watch, 16 October 2009 Kemp concluded by saying that from his "knowledge of the IDF and from the extent to which I have been following the current operation, I don’t think there has ever been a time in the history of warfare when any army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of innocent people than the IDF is doing today in Gaza".UK Commander Challenges Goldstone Report, UN Watch, 16 October 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6vyT8RzMo
==Affiliations==
*Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
*UN Watch
*Gatestone Institute - board of advisers (in formation 2015)
==External resources==
*Asa Winstanley, The hardcore Christian Zionism of Israel’s favorite British colonel, Electronic Intifada, 10 September 2013.
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Richard Lloyd

Richard Lloyd is a former UK government special adviser, who worked for the Prime Minister's Office from 2007 till 2010. There he dealt with economic issues across the government, including strategy, communications and consumer policy. Richard Lloyd LinkedIn profile, accessed 20 October 2014 
Lloyd is now executive director at consumer advice company Which?. About Which? Which?, accessed 20 October 2014 
==Background==
Lloyd has over 20 years’ experience of campaigning, policy-making and service provision in charities, housing agencies and government. He was campaign director at CHOICE, the Australian consumers' association, leading their work on banking reform. Richard Lloyd Which? Conversation, accessed 20 October 2014 
Previously he was director general of Consumers International, the world federation of consumer organisations, he also led the anti-landmine campaign as director of the international charity Landmine Action.
In the 1990s Lloyd was head of policy at Shelter, drawing on earlier experience delivering frontline services with housing associations in south London. 
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Richard Luce

Richard Luce (Lord Luce) was made a life peer in the House of Lords. He became a Crossbench member of the Lords in October 2000. Richard Luce www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 December 2014 
==History==
Luce was Lord Chamberlain to The Queen from 2000 to 2006, and has been Governor of Gibraltar, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and Government Minister.
Lord Luce was knighted in 1991, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1986. 
==Affiliations==
*Vice-Chair- UK-Bahrain All-Party Parliamentary Group
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Richard M. Bissell Jr

Richard M. Bissell Jr (1909-1994) was the CIA's Deputy Director For Plans, head of its Directorate of Plans from 1959 to 1964.Phillip Frazer, Obituary: Richard Bissell, Independent, 3 March 1994.
According to the Independent, Bissell was "the central covert operations man in the Central Intelligence Agency for the central period of the cold war":
::Not the most well-known nor the highest-ranking official, Bissell was the man who planned and gave the orders for such low points in American cold-war dirty tricks as the overthrow of Patrice Lumumba, the disastrous invasion of Cuba and the numerous (failed) attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.Phillip Frazer, Obituary: Richard Bissell, Independent, 3 March 1994.
==Affiliations==
*Ford Foundation
*Central Intelligence Agency
==External Resources==
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Richard Manning

Richard Manning is a former member of the UK Department for International Development and is currently on the Global Development Advisory Panel.
==Career==
Manning served in the UK Department for International Development and its predecessors from 1965-2003. His roles included director-general of South East Asia development division of overseas development agency, 1996-2003, secondment to the British High Commission, Lagos, 1968-1970, UK permanent representation to the European Communities, 1973-1975, and alternate executive director at the World Bank, 1984-1986. Richard Manning 3ieimpact, accessed 12 November 2014 Richard Manning Blavatnik School of Government, accessed 12 November 2014 
==ACOBA==
===2006-2008===
*Consultant, Debt AIDS Trade Africa, March 2008
*Consultant, Debt Relief International, March 2008
*Consultant, German Marshall Fund of the United States, March 2008
All three appointments were approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Ministers or officials on behalf of his new employer". Ninth Report 2006-2008 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 12 November 2014 
===2008-2009===
*Member of board of trustees, BBC World Service Trust, April 2008
*Consultant, OECD, April 2008
*Consultant, Various foreign governments, May 2008
All three appointments were approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or officials on behalf of his new employer" Tenth Report 2008-2009 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 25 November 2014 
*Consultant, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation assignment Abt Associates Inc, May 2008
*Consultant, Danish Institute for International Studies, September 2008
*Member, Steering Committee reviewing EU’s external lending policy The European Investment Bank, October 2008.
All three appointments were given "unconditional approval" by ACOBA
===2009-2010===
*Co-chair (with the UN Secretary General) of Fund's replenishment negotiations. Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, September 2009. Was given "unconditional approval by ACOBA to take up the role. Eleventh Report 2009-2010 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 27 November 2014 
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Richard Mellon Scaife

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Richard Mellon Scaife (1932- ) is an American billionaire and newspaper publisher. He is principal heir to the Mellon oil, banking, aluminium, and uranium fortune. He is known for his financing of conservative public policy organisations through the foundations he controls, including the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Carthage Foundation, Allegheny Foundation, and (until 2001) the Scaife Family Foundation. Collectively, these are referred to as the Scaife Foundations.
The Sarah Scaife Foundation is a major funder of the pro-corporate think tank, the Hudson Institute. In the Foundation's annual report for 2006, it notes that it gave $200,000 to the Hudson Institute, and $800,000 to another conservative organisation, the Heritage Foundation."2006 Annual Report, Sarah Scaife Foundation, accessed March 28 2009
==Funding the New Right==
In her article "Citizen Scaife", Karen Rothmyer argues that Richard Mellon Scaife has "used his immense wealth to shape today's political climate" in his role as "the prime funder of the media-savvy New Right". Rothmyer recounts Scaife's brief ownership of a publication with alleged CIA links:
:Scaife's one foray into international publishing represents perhaps the most curious of his publishing enterprises. In 1973, he became the owner of Kern House Enterprises, a U.S.-registered company. Kern House ran Forum World Features, a London-based news agency that supplied feature material to a large number of papers around the world, including at one time about thirty in the U.S. Scaife abruptly closed down Forum in 1975, shortly before Time Out, a British weekly, published a purported 1968 CIA memorandum, addressed to then-director Richard Helms, which described Forum as a CIA-sponsored operation providing "a significant means to counter Communist propaganda." The Forum-CIA tie, which lasted into the seventies, has been confirmed by various British and American publications over the years, and it was confirmed independently by a source in connection with this article.Karen Rothmyer, "Citizen Scaife, part 2: The small-bore publisher", Columbia Journalism Review July/August 1981, accessed in web archive March 28 2009
==Funding counterjihad network==
Steve Emerson received money from Scaife for his documentary Jihad in America.Brooks Jackson/CNN, ‘Who Is Richard Mellon Scaife?’, 27 April 1998; (accessed 15 August 2008)
The Scaife Foundations have heavily funded other influential organisations in the counterjihad network such as the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy.
==Affiliations==
*Committee on the Present Danger (1976 version)
*Forum World Features
*Hudson Institute
*Kern House Enterprises
*Sarah Scaife Foundation
*Scaife Family Foundation
*Scaife Foundations
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Richard Meredith

Richard Meredith is a former British diplomat, now working as a lobbyist. He is a partner in the Brunswick Group's London office, and co-head of its crisis advisory group. Richard Meredith, Partner, London, Brunswick website, acc 20 October 2014 
==Background==
From his biography on the PR and lobbying firm's website:
:Before joining Brunswick in 2012, Richard was Communications Director for national security issues in the UK government. Richard’s long career in the HM Diplomatic Service took him to many parts of the world, and he lived and worked in Africa, Germany, the US and the Middle East.
:Richard has advised a number of major global companies, including BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, and MTN on their management of global crises. Richard’s senior clients also include international private family businesses in the UK and internationally, where he works with them to build communication programs that underpin their reputational standing.
===Activities===
Brunswick's website says Meredith draws up on his political experience to helpsenior corporate clients on preparing them to manage crises better. He also leads the Brunswick Private Client and Family Business Group along with being a key partner in Brunswick’s Corporate Data Group, advising clients on data and cyber issues.
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*Richard Meredith, Breaking the cycle, Brunswick Review, Issue 8, Spring 2014, accessed 20 October 2014
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Richard Millar

Richard Millar is the global chair, creative strategy and UK CEO of Hill and Knowlton.
==Career==
Millar started his career as a group marketing director for Habitat between July 1996 and December 2003.
He was appointed practice leader at Hill and Knowlton (March 2004-December 2008) and then global chair, creative strategy and UK CEO from January 2009. Richard Millar Linkedin, undated, accessed 8 October 2014 
==Education==
*BA Hons, Politics & Modern History, The University of Manchester 1983 – 1986
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Richard Mottram

Sir Richard Mottram is a former government minister, former chairman of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the current chairman of Amey plc.
==Government==
Mottram worked in government for 15 years. Working as permanent secretary at the Office of Public Service and Science in the Cabinet Office, 1992-1995, the UK Ministry of Defence, 1995-1998, the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1998-2001, the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2001-2002, Department for Work and Pensions, 2002-2005 and finally at the Cabinet Office between 2005-2007. Richard Mottram Linkedin, accessed 12 November 2014 
In the Cabinet Office he has held roles including security and intelligence co-ordinator and as chairman of the joint intelligence committee. Richard Mottram Centre for Science and Policy, accessed 12 November 2014 
==Affiliations==
*Chairman, Amey plc, 2008. Role was approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of Amey or their parent company, Ferrovial. Tenth Report 2008-2009 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 25 November 2014 
*Member, international advisory board, Gardaworld, 2008. Approved by ACOBA "subject to the normal three-month waiting period and the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or officials on behalf of his new employer" Ninth Report 2006-2008 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 12 November 2014 
*Visting professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 2014. Given "unconditional approval" by ACOBA to take up the role.
*Governor, Ashridge Business School, 1998
*Governor, Ditchley Foundation, 1996
*Chairman, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 2008-2014
*Chairman of UK advisory board, Employment Services Holdings Pty Ltd, September 2008. Approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer".
==Education==
*BA International Relations and Affairs, Keele University 1964-1968
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Richard N. Haass

Richard N. Haass (born in 1951, Brooklyn) has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003, prior to which he was Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State and a close advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell. The U.S. Senate approved Haass as a candidate for the position of ambassador and he has been US Coordinator for policy on the future of Afghanistan in addition to working as the main U.S. government official on the peace process in Northern Ireland, for which he received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award.CFR Richard N Haass, bio, accessed 24 May 2012.
From 1989 to 1993, Haass was Special Assistant to United States President George H. W. Bush and National Security Council Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs. In 1991, Haass received the Presidential Citizens Medal for helping to develop and explain U.S. policy during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Previously, he served in various posts in the Department of State (1981-85) and the Department of Defense (1979-80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.
Haass' other postings include Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute, the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A Rhodes Scholar, Haass obtained a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1973 and went on to earn both a Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University. he is a member of the Centre for European Reform. He is published by Project Syndicate .http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/115 
Haass is the author of 12 books, of which 11 deal with matters of foreign policy and one with management. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
==Resources==
Interview with Haass from SPIEGEL ONLINE 2006.
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Richard Needham

Sir Richard Needham is the chairman of Tetra Strategy and Vane Minerals PLC and as a director at a number of other companies.
He was a Conservative MP for 18 years.
==Northern Ireland==
Needham was a Conservative MP from 1979 to 1997 and served as Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office from 3 September 1985 until 15 April 1992.David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, p.41, p.46.
==Career==
Needham has been chairman of some of the biggest companies and organisations in the UK, including the Heart Hospital in London from 1995 to 2001, Biocompatibles plc from 2000 to 2006, NewField IT from 2004 to 2007 and Avon Rubber plc from 2007 to 2012. He is currently the chairman of Tetra Strategy and Vane Minerals PLC.
He was a director of Anglo Japanese 21st Century Group from 1985 to 2010 and of Dyson from 1995 to 2011.
On top of his roles with Tetra and Vane Minerals, he is currently a non-executive director at business support company Smarta, gambling company Rank PLC and events organisers NEC Group and a guest speaker with JLA speakers. Rt Hon Sir Richard Needham Earl of Kilmorey Linkedin, accessed 27 January 2015 
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Richard Newby

Richard Newby (Lord Newby) is a Liberal Democrat peer in the House of Lords, former director of Flagship Group and a director of Live Consulting. He became a Life Peer in 1997.Live Consulting website, accessed Feb 2009 He is Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Treasury Parliamentary Party Committee.
==Early life==
Newby was born in Rothwell, West Yorkshire and attended Rothwell Grammar School before studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Catherine's College Oxford.
==Political career==
Newby grew up in a Labour stronghold and was a member of the Labour Party at university and in several London boroughs. During the 1975 European referendum, he was General Secretary of Young European Left, the pro-European youth wing of the Labour Party.
He worked for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for its duration and was its chief executive from 1983-88. He worked on all subsequent Lib Dem General Election campaigns, as press officer to Paddy Ashdown (1992), Deputy Campaign Chairman (1997) and subsequently as a member of the Campaigns and Communications Committee. He was Charles Kennedy's Chief of Staff during his period as Leader.
==Background==
Outside politics Newby was 'a tax man' at HM Customs and Excise from 1974 until 1981. He was also corporate affairs director of a property company (Rosehaugh 1988-92) and a PR/public affairs adviser (1992-2001).
==On Tax Havens==
In a March 2009 House of Lords debate the Lib Dems challenged the Labour government over the tax contributions of UK tax havens. Lord Newby, endorsed Lord Burnett's call for a purposive rule and added a number of further recommendations for action:
:"One would like to see shareholders asking more questions of the companies in which they invest. ... There should be a requirement that all non-doms who choose to remain in the UK for more than a set period should pay UK tax on all their global earnings, thus not just generating more tax income but closing another gigantic loophole. ... [And] We want to push for full information exchange agreements not just with our tax havens, as it were, but with those elsewhere in the world. We hope that that will be one of the outcomes of the G20 discussions." Time to call time on British tax havens, Mon, 30 Mar 2009, acc 13 November 2011 
==Affiliations==
*Chair of Live Consulting, a corporate responsibility consultancy 
* Chair of sport for Life International, which manages education programmes linked to major sports stadiums globally, including in Trinidad, Barbados and Pakistan. 
*Chair of Sport at The Prince's Trust and of International Development through Sport (IDS UK) 
*Founder Member of the All-Party Parliamentary Corporate Responsibility Group and Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Social Enterprise Group
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Richard Nichols

Richard Nichols is the chief executive of PR firm Instinctif Partners.
==Career==
Nichols' career began at accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1987 as a senior manager. In 1994 he joined the corporate finance division British Gas; joined PR firm Citigate Dewe Rogerson in 1996 as deputy group finance director, Incepta Group plc in 1998 as executive director, then group finance director in 1999 and chief executive in 2001; in 2005 he was appointed chief executive of PR firm Huntsworth PLC.
In 2006 he began work as chief executive of PR firm Instinctif Partners. Linkedin Richard Nichols, accessed 3 April 2015 
==Letter to the Telegraph==
On 1 April 2015 Nichols was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 3 April 2015.
==Education==
*BA (Hons), MA, Economics, St Catharines College, University of Cambridge, 1984-1987
*Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, 1987-1990
==Affiliations==
*Addictive Interactive, non-executive director, 2010-
*Ebiquity plc, non-executive director, 2008-
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Richard Ober

Richard Ober was a CIA officer. He was appointed head of the Special Operations Group within the agency's counterintelligence staff in 1967, with a brief to look at foreign influence on the antiwar movement.Robert M. Hathaway, Relations with the White House, Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1993, p.16.
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