Professor Andrew Coyle CMG

(lay member)

Andrew Coyle is Professor of Prison Studies at King's college, University of London.  Between 1997 and 2005 he was founding Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies King's College.  He is a prisons adviser to several United Nations bodies and to the Council of Europe.  He is a member of the Foreign Secretary's Expert Panel against Torture and of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council. He worked for 25 years at a senior level in the prison services of the United Kingdom.  While in the Scottish Prison Service he was Governor of Greenock, Peterhead and Shotts Prisons.  Between 1991 and 1997 he was Governor of Brixton Prison in London. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2003 for his contribution to international penal reform.  He is a Fellow of King's College London.

Professor Coyle was reappointed in November 2011 for three years until 31 December 2014.