Helena Kennedy

Baroness Helena Kennedy is a leading criminal lawyer as well as the Chair of the British Council, and Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. She is Chair of the London International Festival of Theatre, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and President of the National Children's Bureau. Her seminal report on further education, Learning Works, was published in 1997. A frequent broadcaster and journalist on law and women's rights, she created the BBC television series Blind Justice in 1987. Her award-winning book on women in the British criminal justice system, Eve was Framed, was published in 1992.

Affiliations

• Foreign Policy Centre Advisory Council