George Hosking

George Dunne Cameron Hosking OBE (born c. 1944[1]) is a British Quaker, economist, accountant, psychologist, and clinical criminologist[1] who founded WAVE Trust in 1996.

Background

Hosking has been successful in taking WAVE Trust from a small organization chatting about how to tackle the root causes of violence[2] in internet chat rooms, to being WAVE adviser to the UK Home Office, Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, Metropolitan Police, Centre for Social Justice and Scottish Violence Reduction Unit on violence reduction. The World Health Organisation have commended WAVE’s groundbreaking work and WAVE has become part of WHO’s global Violence Prevention Alliance.

Hosking has looked at how to tackle violence at it roots by identifying and understanding root causes, rather than operating on symptoms. His consultancy has helped transform profitability for well-known international companies.

Hosking has been doing therapeutic work with violent criminals both in prison and after release. To date none of his clients have re-offended with violence, in or out of prison.

Hosking was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to reducing violence, particularly child abuse.[3]

He graduated with a PG Diploma in Psychology from Birmingham University in 1998.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Leading Questions: George Hosking, chief executive, WAVE". The Observer. 6 December 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Townsend, Mark (16 October 2005). "Violence blamed on teenage mums". The Observer. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60895. p. b13. 14 June 2014.

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