Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG QC

Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG QC is the inaugural Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in London. He also practises at the Bar at Blackstone Chambers and is Professor Emeritus at University College London (where he was Professor of Public Law, Dean and Vice Provost).

A leading authority on public, constitutional and administrative law, he has recently been the UK member of the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters. He is the author of leading texts on constitutional and administrative law, has assisted in the drafting of a number of national constitutions throughout the Commonwealth and East Europe, and serves on the boards of a number of public bodies.