The British Institute for the Study of Iraq
(Gertrude Bell Memorial)

British Institute for the Study of Iraq Patron, Vice-President & Officers and Council Members and BISI Committees

Patron

The Right Honourable Lord Lamont of Lerwick PC

Vice-President

Michael Aron, Michael Aron, British Ambassador to Iraq

Officers

• Chairman: Professor Roger Matthews
• Vice-Chair & Chair of the Fieldwork & Research Committee: Dr Eleanor Robson
• Hon. Treasurer & Chairman of the Finance Committee: Mr Iain D. Cheyne CBE
• Administrator & Company Secretary: Mrs Joan Porter MacIver

• Development Committee Chairman: Dr Paul Collins
• Publications Committee Chairman: Dr Jon Taylor
• Appeal Committee Chairman: Mr Peter Davies
• Appeal Committee Vice-Chairman: Dr Harriet Crawford
• Visiting Scholars Committee Chairman: Dr Harriet Crawford
• Editors of IRAQ: Professor Andrew George FBA & Dr Michael Seymour

Council Members

• Dr Athem Alsabti (D)
• Dr Teresa Bernheimer (D)
• Mr Iain Cheyne, CBE (F, P, A, W)
• Dr Paul Collins (R, D)
• Mr Peter Davies (A, D), ex-officio
• Professor Andrew George FBA (P)
• Dr Harriet Martin (D, P)
• Professor Roger Matthews, Chairman (F, W)
• Professor Nicholas Postgate FBA (R, V, W)
• Dr Glen Rangwala (R, V)
• Dr Eleanor Robson, Vice-Chairman. (R, W, F, D)
• Professor Emilie Savage-Smith FBA (R, P)
• Dr Jon Taylor (P, F)
• Professor Charles Tripp (R)

A = Member of the Appeal Committee
D = Member of the Development Committee
F = Member of the Finance Committee
P = Member of the Publications Committee
R = Member of the Fieldwork and Research Committee
W = Member of the Working Group
V = Member of the Visiting Scholars Committee

Other BISI Committee Members

Members of the Appeal Committee:

• Mr Peter Davies (Chairman)
• Dr Harriet Crawford (Vice-Chairman)
• Dr Lamia al-Gailani Werr
• Sir Terence Clark, KBE, CMG, CVO
• Mr Simon Eccles-Williams
• Mr Mowafaq Mahmood
• Mr Bashir Siman
• Mr Iain Cheyne CBE
• Mrs Joan Porter MacIver, BISI Administrator
• Mr Alan Sandall, Secretary of the Appeal

Co-opted members of Development Committee:

• Dr Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
• Mr Peter Davies

Co-opted member of the Fieldwork and Research Committee:

• Mr Nigel Wilson FBA (F & RC External Assessor)

Co-opted member of the Publications Committee:

• Dr Michael Seymour, Co-Editor of the Journal Iraq (from 2010)
• Dr Augusta McMahon

Visiting Iraqi Scholars/Fellows Programme

• Dr Harriet Crawford (Chair)
• Dr Lamia Al Gailani Werr
• Dr Glen Rangwala
• Professor Nicholas Postgate
• Joan Porter MacIver, Admnistrator of the Programme