Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton, DBE

September 2010

Baroness Campbell is an active Independent Crossbench Peer, currently working on 21st Century Welfare and implementation of integrated personal budgets. She has been a member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission since 2008, and was recently appointed to the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Human Rights. She is also Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Disability Group with Anne McGuire MP.

Jane Campbell is Chair of two expert panels on Welfare Reform and Independent Living for the Government’s Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). She has a long history of parliamentary lobbying for disabled people’s civil and human rights. She has been particularly active in creating structures which encourage disabled people from all sectors of society to take control of their lives and influence political and social change. Jane was a Commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) from 2006-2009, and a Commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) from its inception in 2000.

Among her publications, Jane co-authored Disability Politics (with Mike Oliver) in 1996; and contributed a chapter to Disabled People and the Right to Life (ed Luke Clements and Janet Read) in 2008.

Jane Campbell has been recognised for her work twice in the Queen’s birthday honours (in 2000 with an MBE and again in 2006 when she was made a Dame), and is the recipient of three honorary doctorate degrees.