Officers

Chairman

Our Chairman is Mark Reckless MP. Mark graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School. More recently he has trained as a barrister, gaining an LLB from the College of Law and being called to the Bar in 2007.

He was employed by a leading firm of City Solicitors and prior to that was UK Economist for the investment bank Warburgs. He has also worked for the Conservative Party Policy Unit, where he developed new policies for tackling youth crime and police governance.

Mark won the Rochester and Strood constituency for the Conservative party at the 2010 general election with 49.2% of the vote .

President

Our President is George West, who is retired from his career in Engineeing.

Treasurer

Our Treasurer is John Harrison who qualifed as a Chartered Accountant in 1973 and is in practice in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. John joined the National Committee on 1999 and became Honorary Treasurer in 2000. He is also Membership Secretary.

Vice Chairmen

Edward Spalton, who is retired form his career distributing agricultural feedstuffs; he is a German/English translator and public speaker.

Reverend Phillip Foster MA, who is vicar of St Matthew's church in Cambridge, author, publisher and climate change sceptic.

Jim Reynolds, a property manager, who is our leaflet distributor.

Dele Ogun, who is a lawyer practising in London. Dele was called to the bar in 1985, became a solicitor in 1995 and solicitor advocate in 2003. He is an author, public speaker and supports Arsenal F C.

Vice Presidents

Lord Pearson of Rannoch was made a life peer on 18 June 1990 for services to the insurance industry, sitting as a Conservative.   He is  the co-founder of a pro free trade think-tank, Global Britain, which publishes research on the BBC's EU coverage and on the cost of UK membership and is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance. He was leader of UKIP between 27 November 2009 and August 2010.  and has done extensive charitable work and fundraising, in particular for the Camphill movement.

Sir, Teddy Taylor, formerly a journalist, is a British Conservative Party politician who was MP from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Rochford and Southend East. He was a leading Eurosceptic in the Conservative government. He resigned as a Scottish Office minister in Edward Heath's government in protest at the British signup to the EEC.

Sir Robin Williams Bt, who was Honorary Secretary of CIB from 1969 to 2008 and Chairman of Get Britain Out between 1969 and 1984.

Leolin Price, CBE QC who is a retired constitutional lawyer