UKCOD is currently seeking new trustees - please read our blog post for more information and how to apply.

UKCOD is governed by its board of trustees. Legally, they are responsible for ensuring UKCOD complies with charity and other law. They also take responsibility for ensuring that UKCOD and mySociety carry out their states goals and aims effectively given the available resources and constraints.

The trustees meet approximately quarterly in person to review the operations of the charity. A calendar of meetings (Google Calendar) is available.

All trustees give their time and expertise on a voluntary basis and are entirely un-waged. The current trustees are:

Owen Blacker

Owen runs a technical team at an ad agency by day and by night works for a handful of Internet-related groups pressing for social and political change. In addition, Owen is a director of the Open Rights Group, having been a founding member of the advisory council, he helped found NO2ID and FaxYourMP and used to co-ordinate Stand.org.uk. He can usually be found wasting what he laughably calls "free time" contributing to the Wikipedia projects, which might explain why he still hasn't got round to making himself a website, though he does now have a poorly-maintained blog.

James Crabtree

James is the Mumbai Correspondent at the Financial Times, having previously been an editor at Prospect magazine, a monthly publication in the UK dealing with politics and ideas. He is a journalist and policy wonk by background, having previously worked as civil servant at the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, for various think tanks, and written for publications like the Economist, the New Statesman and the American Prospect. He went to university at the LSE, and then to graduate school at Harvard. He is also the author of an article entitled Civic Hacking: a new agenda for e-democracy which helped to shape the original mySociety project.

James Cronin (Chairman of Trustees)

James is the Chairman of UKCOD, as well as Chairman of the board of directors of mySociety Ltd. He is a technologist who has worked on the UK Internet scene since before the web was invented as developer, systems administrator, technical director or CTO of a number of top UK ISPs, service providers and media companies. James co-founded FaxYourMP, mySociety and TheyWorkForYou and has been active in numerous multi award-winning online campaigning organisations, such as the anti internet snooping bill project: Stand.org.uk. He volunteers for Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, is a founding director of the Open Rights Group and is an advisory board member of the NO2ID campaign. As a day job, James is Executive Director and Chief Architect of the leading e-commerce software as a service company, Venda, which he co-founded. He is neither James Cronin the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, nor James Cronin the founder of the salsa/jive hybrid dance Ceroc, although he has been mistaken for both. He is, however, James Cronin the co-owner of the UK's finest boutique chocolaterie, Paul A Young Fine Chocolates, based in Islington, which he is exceptionally proud of.

Manar Hussain

Co-founder of UKCOD. Co-founder of Stand.org.uk and thence FaxYourMP.com (trivia: its server sat in his living room for a good while). Co-founder of Internet Vision (iVision). Co-founder of the RiscBSD (NetBSD/arm32) project. He returned to London in May 2007 after completing an MBA at INSEAD and a further year of travel.

Stephen King

A partner at Omidyar Network, Stephen leads their Government Transparency initiative and has exceptional links in the global transparency technology community, bringing his extensive expertise and contacts to assist UKCOD's work. He has previously worked for the BBC, International Council on Social Welfare, HelpAge International, Help the Aged, and Voluntary Service Overseas. He also serves as a board member of Ushahidi and Global Voices.

Amandeep Rehlon (Treasurer)

Trustee and Treasurer of UKCOD and Director of mySociety Ltd. Amandeep's background is in finance and governance, having spent three years in KPMG's Public Sector Assurance Practice in London. He currently works in the Financial Stability area of the Bank of England. UKCOD is his first foray into e-democracy.

Previous Trustees

Geoffrey Aikens

Alexander Maclean

Tom Loosemore

Craig Pickup

Dane Wright

Horace Mitchell

Ray Sheath

Richard Stubbs

Stephen Coleman