Gerard leads the research team at Lemos&Crane. He is the author of several books and reports about social policy and supporting vulnerable people. His publications include The Communities We Have Lost and Can Regain (co-authored with Michael Young). His new book, The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People fear the Future will be published in June 2012 by Yale University Press. He is Chairman of the Money Advice Service, appointed by the FSA and an independent director of the Payments Council. He is also Vice-President of the British Board of Film Classification. He chaired the Board of Trustees of the British Council from 2008 to 2010 having been a trustee since 1999 and Deputy Chair from 2005. He was a visiting Professor at Chongqing Technology and Business University between 2006 and 2010. Gerard has formerly been Chair of Akram Khan Dance Company, an Audit Commissioner, a Civil Service Commissioner and a non-executive director of Crown Prosecution Service. He received a CMG in the Queens' Birthday Honours List in 2001 for services to the British Council. His speech on money and happiness won a Cicero award for speech writing in 2011. His photographs have been published in De Volkskrant newspaper in the Netherlands and featured in a British Council exhibition in Cape Town.

Paul is co-founding partner and manages quality assurance at Lemos&Crane. He is the author of two civil rights handbooks, a Cambridge University law graduate and a solicitor. As a lawyer he specialised in civil rights work; he took part in the landmark case before the European Court of Human Rights that led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland. Paul has worked in general and legal book publishing both as a commissioning editor and publisher. Prior to initiating web development ten years ago, he published over 50 books and reports at Lemos&Crane. Paul's voluntary board experience includes acting as governor-trustee for an international college during 2005-10.

Carwyn is a partner at Lemos&Crane, leading the sales team and with responsibility also for Lemos&Crane's conference programme and for developing new business opportunities. Carwyn is a philosophy graduate from Warwick University and also a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He has worked at Lemos&Crane since 1997.

Amy is the administrator for Lemos&Crane and is in charge of membership renewals and event bookings. She has a degree in Urban Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her past experience includes time at HomeBase, a law and social policy centre on homelessness, Anishinabe Wakiagun, a home for formerly homeless Native Americans, a year as a project worker for the Simon Community in London and as assistant food shelf coordinator at Branch Two. She began her career in administration as a receptionist for TVE (Television for the Environment) and was responsible for online and journal memberships at the Directory of Social Change before joining Lemos&Crane in 2005.  Amy is also a volunteer advocate for Age Concern Camden.

Jan is the accounts administrator at Lemos&Crane. After graduating in music followed by a short spell at BBC radio production she set up her own arts admin business in 1998 and subsequently moved sideways into bookkeeping. Since then she has built up a solid portfolio of clients and joined the team at Lemos&Crane in 2005. Outside bookkeeping she keeps a foot in the music camp by running her own classical record label.  

Ellen is part of membership services, promoting our online resources and providing information about our systems to new and subscribing members. Most of her work is telephone-based, giving guided demonstrations of our resources to interested practitioners. She also provides introductory face-to-face presentations for organisations, for example to our client-led support planning tool, BlueSalmon. She graduated from University College London (UCL) in 2008, and has recently completed her MA (also at UCL), which she studied part time over two years. She has worked at Lemos&Crane since 2008.