Maeve Sherlock

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Maeve Sherlock OBE was the Chief Executive of the Refugee Council, a charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, between August 2003 and October 2006. Prior to joining the charity, she worked as a special advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown MP. At the Treasury her brief covered social issues such as child poverty and welfare reform.

Sherlock has also been Chief Executive of the National Council for One Parent Families, Director of the education charity UKCOSA and is a former president of the National Union of Students. She is a trustee of the think tank Demos. She studied at the University of Liverpool in the 1980s, and is currently a postgraduate in Theology at St Chad's College, Durham University, of which she is also an Honorary Fellow.

In November 2007 she was appointed as a commissioner to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). ^[1]

Political offices
Preceded by Vicky Phillips	President of the National Union of Students 1988–1990	Succeeded by Stephen Twigg

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