CASA's Trustees
CASA's Board of Trustees holds ultimate responsibility for the agency. Our Trustees agree our strategic direction, policies and work plans. Trustees use internal controls, such as regular finance reports, to ensure that CASA's service delivery, finances and risk are effecively managed.
Current Trustees
The composition of our Board reflects our local community, and brings together the mix of skills and experience needed for the charity to perform to a high standard. Six of the seven current Trustees live within the boroughs of Camden or Islington, which is CASA's main catchment area.
| Barry Peskin, Chair | |
 | Barry has been a Trustee of CASA for twelve years and Chair for the past three of these. Previously he was a Labour Party Camden Councillor for a total of eight years chairing Social Services for some three years. A business man before his retirement, he has extensive commercial knowledge alongside considerable experience in various fields of social and health care. |
| Sally Marlow | |
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| John Watson, Treasurer | |
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| Dr Emily Finch | |
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Emily Finch is a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist working for the South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust.
She is deputy clinical director with responsibility for clinical governance and is responsible for addiction services in Southwark.
From 2004 to 2007 she was clinical team leader at the NTA where she took a lead in the clinical aspects of national drug policy and in liaising between the NTA and the professionals working in the field. She was part of the secretariat for the 2007 Drug Misuse and Dependence: guidelines on clinical management. She is joint honorary secretary of the addictions executive of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Emily is a tutor, lecturer and examiner on the MSc in Clinical and Public Health Aspects of Addiction. Her research interests include the outcome of treatment for opiate users, dual diagnosis and injectable prescribing. |
| Robert Graham-Harrison, Vice-Chair | |
 | Robert has spent most of his career in international development. After working with VSO in India, he held a range of positions with the Department for International Development in Africa and Asia, as well as London. He has been a director of the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. |
| Dr Dianne Hayter | |
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Dianne, a former Chair of CASA, was the first Director of Alcohol Concern, and has previously been Chief Executive
of the Pelican Cancer Centre, the European Parliamentary Labour Party, and the Fabian Society; and Director of
Corporate Affairs at the Wellcome Trust. She is Chair of the Property Standards Board and of the Legal Services
Consumer Panel, and a member of the Board for Actuarial Standards. She was on the Board of the National Consumer
Council; Vice Chair of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, a JP, and a member of the Royal Commission on
Criminal Procedure. She has a PhD in history and is the author of one book and the editor of another. Dianne was Chair of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee and now sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town. |