Baroness Molly Meacher is the Chair of East London NHS Foundation Trust and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Formerly she has been the Chairman of the Security Industry Authority and Deputy Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority. In the 1990’s Molly worked in Russia for 4 years advising the Russian Government on the development of a system to handle unemployment. She is the author or editor of a number of books on the benefits system, mental health and the tax system. She was actively involved in the development of the 1983 Mental Health Act and spent five years as a Mental Heath Act Commissioner. She has worked at a policy level on a range of issues.