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The Clink Charity is delighted to announce the appointment of Jeremy Paxman, Shabaz Mohammed and Bojana Ignjatovic as Trustees and Lady Edwina Grosvenor as a Clink Ambassador for its female graduates. In taking up this new role Lady Edwina will be stepping down as a Trustee of the charity.
Finlay Scott, Chairman of The Clink Charity said: “On behalf of the board I would like to welcome Bojana, Jeremy and Shabaz, and I look forward to working with them all. On a personal note I would like to thank Edwina for the incredibly valuable work and support she has given over the last seven years and for being such a charming colleague, who I have thoroughly enjoyed working with. I look forward to her continued support in her role as an Ambassador.”
Bojana Ignjatovic is an economist and partner at RBB Economics, an economic consultancy specialising in the area of competition law. Prior to joining RBB, Bojana worked in the Government Economic Service. In addition to her professional work, Bojana is an occasional lecturer at Kings College London. She holds an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College, London and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford.
Jeremy Paxman is arguably one of Britain’s most respected political journalists, renowned for his tough, rigorous interviewing of public figures. After graduating from Cambridge with a degree in English he joined the BBC as a trainee in 1972 and began working in radio. He worked for BBC Television as a foreign correspondent and began reading the Six O’clock news. His career has moved on and he is now best known for presenting Newsnight until 2014 and as question master on University Challenge.
Shabaz Mohammed, a Scot from Glasgow, started his career as a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force having graduated in Mechanical Engineering. He has been involved in food supply chain procurement for the last 30 years in sectors of manufacturing, distribution, catering and latterly as Managing Director of food procurement specialists, Pelican Procurement Services. He has a personal interest in rehabilitation.
After reading Criminology and Sociology at university Lady Edwina went on to work at HMP Styal and the House of Lords for the Bishop of Prisons. Having been a founding funder for The Clink, she became a Trustee of the charity in 2011 and has provided invaluable input particularly relating to women’s prisons during this time. Her new ambassadorial role will allow her more time to continue her vital work in this field with her newly founded organization One Small Thing which has taken the concept of trauma informed working across all of the women’s prisons in England and recently has begun working with the Long Term High Secure male estate.
