The Secretary of State has appointed Ama Agbeze and Nicola
Shannon as Board Members of the UK Anti-Doping Agency for a term
of 4 years.
Ama Agbeze
Appointed for a four year term commencing 30 October 2023.
Ama has a diverse and distinctive mix of talent and skill. Two
decades as a professional athlete culminated in Ama captaining
Team England to netball gold at the 2018 Commonwealth
Games.
As a dedicated advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Ama
consults and serves as a keynote speaker, leveraging her
influence to champion organisational change and cultural
development, improving life opportunities in areas of
deprivation, leadership and mental health. Her legal expertise as
a solicitor, spanning family, commercial, charity, and banking
disciplines, uniquely positions her to address the complex
intersection of law, sports, and the pursuit of clean sport and
maintaining a fair and level playing field. As a contributing
co-founder to the Netball Players’ Association she is well versed
in championing ‘the athlete voice’
Ama’s role as an ambassador, non-executive director, advisor and
trustee for various charities and organisations underscores her
commitment to promoting sport and physical activity and
emphasising their positive impact on health outcomes,
particularly for children and young people as well as focussing
on safeguarding from an individual and sport integrity
perspective.
Recently, an independent Board Member of the Birmingham
Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Chairing
the Athlete Advisory Committee, Ama continues to be a compelling
force advocating for ethical sportspersonship and upholding the
principles of integrity in sport.
Nicola Shannon
Appointed for a four year term commencing 30 October 2023.
Nicola Shannon KC is a barrister practising from chambers in
London, specialising in Criminal and Regulatory Law. She also has
a part-time judicial role, sitting as a Recorder in Crown Courts
across London and the South East. Her practice focuses on Serious
and Complex Crime and Fraud, including Homicide, Organised Crime
and Human Trafficking and Serious Sexual Offences. Her work
includes niche expertise in the presentation of allegations made
by vulnerable witnesses and those with mental disabilities or
learning and communication difficulties. She has led teams
pioneering creative solutions to meet the challenges presented.
She advises Prosecution agencies at an early stage of
investigations and has extensive experience of the safeguarding
issues involved.
She has a passion for mentoring young practitioners in chambers
and is Senior Member of a Women in Criminal Law Judicial
Mentoring Circle.
She is a champion of Wellbeing within the criminal justice system
and co-founded ‘Kindness at the Bar’ in 2022, an initiative to
research and promote kinder working cultures within the legal
sector. She has been Wellbeing Director of the South-Eastern
Circuit (the Bar’s regional representative body) since 2019 and
is the current Chair of the Bar Council Wellbeing at the Bar
Working Group.
Remuneration and Governance Code
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Trustees of the Imperial War Museum are not remunerated.
This appointment has been made in accordance with the
Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public
Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by
the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code,
any significant political activity undertaken by an
appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is
defined as including holding office, public speaking,
making a recordable donation, or candidature for election.
Ama Agbeze and Nicola Shannon have not declared any
significant political activity.
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