Dame Janet Paraskeva

2 January, 2018

Dame Janet was Chief Executive of the Law Society from 2000 to 2006, preparing it for the advent of the Legal Services Act 2007 by establishing the separate regulatory functions for the SRA and the OLC from its representative functions.

She has since served as First Civil Service Commissioner, been an independent member of the Consumer Council for Water, a non-executive director of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, Chair of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, Chair of the Appointments Commission for the States of Jersey and Chair of the Standards and Regulation Board for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Currently Chair of Primary Eyecare Services and the Government Legal Department Board, Janet also serves as a trustee of the charity Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA).

Dame Janet was made a Privy Councillor to assist in her role as a member of the Detainee Inquiry established by the Prime Minister in 2010.