Contacts

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The Management Committee is elected at the Annual General meeting and consists of:

Three Moderators, each elected for three years, each serving as Presiding Moderator for one year;
Secretary, Treasurer, Journal Editor and three others (with powers to co-opt); and
one representative appointed by CHRISET, the charitable Trust which administers the finances of CHRISM.

The current incumbents of these positions are

Hugh Lee (Presiding Moderator 2011-12)

Hugh has worked in the international coal industry for over forty years. He was deputy head of economics and strategic planning for British Coal before privatisation and he also worked for the International Energy Agency (IEA). He is now an independent consultant in international coal trade. In addition, he is Chairman of EBICo Ltd, Britain's only not-for-profit gas and electricity company, whose purpose is to help the fuel poor. Hugh has been a member of the Church of England General Synod since 2000, passionately arguing for women bishops and for greater recognition of MSEs. He was ordained as an MSE in 1981.

Lyn Page

Wendy White

Margaret Joachim (Secretary)

Margaret is a senior manager at a computer services company and is very much at the centre of the current trend for businesses to outsource their IT services. She is also politically active, currently as English Candidates’ Chair for the Liberal Democrats. She lives in West London and is an MSE in London Diocese.

Rob Fox (Treasurer)

Rob is currently on a two year secondment from from HM Revenue & Customs (note the emphasis!) to the States of Jersey, helping to introduce Goods & Services Tax. He is thoroughly enjoying being there purely for tax reasons! A keen runner and product of the Northern Ordination Course, he is part of the ministry team in the team parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester, living in neighbouring Stalybridge with his wife Louisa and two grown up children.

Lyn Page (Membership Secretary)

Phil Aspinall

Phil is a risk management consultant providing process safety, health and environmental support and training to the chemical, pharmaceutical and oil & gas industries world-wide. After 25 years with Courtaulds, he now works for Amey VECTRA, based in the Solihull office. Phil was ordained an Anglican priest in 1990 in Coventry diocese, and has a strong commitment to developing work focussed ministry, lay and ordained. He is a member of the IMA, ICF and CIPL.

Sue Cossey

Sue is a life insurance underwriter at Legal & General and was ordained in the United Reformed Church in April 2011. She lives in Bristol and is married with two grown up daughters.

Mike Rayner

Mike is Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group which is part of the Department of Public Health of the University of Oxford. The Group carries out research into the prevention of heart disease – particularly through diet and physical activity. The Group’s most important research has been into food advertising aimed at children, traffic-light labelling for food and into what counts as both a sustainable and a healthy diet. Mike is also the Assistant Curate at St Matthew's Church in Oxford.

Martin Dryden (Webmaster)

Martin has worked in financial services administration all his working life and is currently a non-executive director at State Street in Jersey. He was ordained an Anglican priest in July 2010 and is a curate in the parish of St Clement, Jersey. He and his wife Sue have one son, who is currently studying for a three-year fine art degree in the United Kingdom.