Mission and Public Affairs Staff Team
Malcolm Brown
is Director of the Mission and Public Affairs Division, responsible
for ensuring that all MPA's work takes forward the Archbishops'
Council's strategic vision. Within the team, Malcolm carries
specific responsibility for work on economic issues as well as
contributing, where necessary, to other areas of the Division's
portfolio. Malcolm has been ordained for over 30 years and has
worked as a parish priest and as an industrial missioner, as
Director of a theological think-tank and as Principal of a regional
ministerial training course. Before ordination, he worked for the
Missions to Seamen. He has published widely on topics in Christian
ethics including, recently, a textbook, Tensions in Christian
Ethics (SPCK, 2010)
Charles Reed is
part of the policy adviser team for the Church of England, taking a
lead on foreign policy
issues. Before joining the NCI's Charles worked as a policy analyst
for Burson Marteller in London and the European Commission in
Brussels. His blog, Ethical Comment, provides
regular updates and insights into world affairs.
Jill Hopkinson
is National Rural Officer for the Church of England based at the
Arthur Rank Centre (the churches' rural resources unit) in
Warwickshire. She is responsible for advice on policy on rural communities, food,
agriculture and some aspects of environmental issues. She advises
bishops on legislation in the House of Lords as well as resourcing
mission in rural parishes and supporting a network of dioceasan
Rural Officers. Before the NCIs Jill specialised in rural community
development work, was a technical manager for the Farming and
Wildlife Advisory Group and a research scientist.
Christopher
Jones is part of the policy adviser team for the Church of
England, taking a lead on home affairs at the NCIs and
supporting work in dioceses. He advises bishops on legislation in
the House of Lords as well as working with other agencies on issues
such as prisons and criminal justice, terrorism, mental health,
drugs and alcohol and gambling. Before joining the NCI's
Christopher worked as a prison chaplain with young offenders and as
a university chaplain and teacher in Durham and Oxford.
Richard
Chapman is the Church of England's Secretary for Parliamentary
Affairs, heading the Parliamentary Unit at Church
House. The Unit is the lead office for liaison with MPs and Peers
and provides support to the 26 bishops that sit in the House of
Lords, as well as the Second Church Estates Commissioner (Tony
Baldry MP). From 2005-2008 Richard was a public affairs adviser to
the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace. Prior to that he
spent eight years working in parliament, first as an aide to a
backbench MP, then latterly to a cabinet minister.
Simon Stanley
is Deputy Parliamentary Advisor to the Church of England and
assistant to the Second Church Estates Commissioner supporting his
work in the House of Commons. Before joining the NCI's Simon
worked for Sharon Bowles MEP in her constituency office focusing on
digital communication and Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP in his Parliamentary
Office. He has also worked for Pearson as a bid writer for the
electronic assessment division, The Royal British Legion 'Protect
the Covenant' campaign and for Capita on several building schools
for the future programmes.
David Shreeve
is the Environmental Consultant
to the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England. There
are many environmental aspects to the day-to-day operations of the
Church ranging from the energy use in buildings to the biodiversity
of its churchyards. David is part of the team which organises
Shrinking the Footprint, the Church of England's national
environment campaign. In addition the Church is concerned with a
number of national and international environmental issues and it is
involved in a number of ways in governmental and NGO
activities.
In 2003 David was awarded a Lambeth Degree in recognition of his
influence in the Church's understanding of environmental
issues.
Anne Richards
is part of the policy adviser team for the Church of England taking
a lead on the theology of mission and on issues to do with the
Church of England's engagement with New Religious
Movements (NRMs) and alternative spiritualities (AS). She is
the convener of the ecumenical Mission Theology Advisory Group
(MTAG) which looks particularly at matters of Spirituality,
Theology, Reconciliation, Evangelism and Mission in our society
today. She is a prolific writer and lecturer on how to engage
people outside Christian faith, on rural mission, on children and
theology and on a wide range of gospel and culture matters. She is
the Church of England's Observer on the governing body of INFORM
(Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) at the London
School of Economics.
Rachel Jordan Rachel is the
National Adviser for Mission and Evangelism for the Church of
England. She works with the Diocesan Missioners and many others who
see themselves as part of a network within the church with a
special calling for mission and evangelism. She partners with the
mission agencies and works alongside the Fresh Expressions team,
Church Mission Society, Church Army and HOPE. She has a PhD in
church history, has worked amongst prostitutes and drug addicts in
Amsterdam's red light district and loves coffee and dark
chocolate.
Brendan McCarthy is part of the policy adviser
team for the Church of England, taking a lead on issues associated
with medical
ethics and health and social care policy and supporting work in
dioceses. Previously Brendan had been a Church of Ireland rector
and hospital chaplain and then chief executive of a cross-community
Christian charity in Northern Ireland. He has also
been an adviser to the Parades Commission of Northern Ireland,
a part-time tutor with the London School of Theology and a
non-executive director of the Western Health and Social Services
Trust(NI).