Rt Hon Dame Janet Paraskeva

Chair

Dame Janet Paraskeva has a wealth of experience in leading organisations across a variety of sectors which she now brings to the Primary Eyecare board. Dame Janet was Chief Executive of the Law Society from Society from 2000 to 2006, preparing it for the advent of the Legal Services Act 2007 by establishing the separate regulatory functions for the SRA and the OLC from its representative functions.

She has since served as First Civil Service Commissioner, been an independent member of the Consumer Council for Water, a non-executive director of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, Chair of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission and is currently Chair of the Appointments Commission for the States of Jersey, the Council for Licenced Conveyancers and the Standards and Regulation Board for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). She also serves as trustee of the charity Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA). Dame Janet has also previously served on the board of an NHS Foundation Trust.

Dame Janet was made a Privy Councillor to assist in her role as a member of the Detainee Inquiry established by the Prime Minister in 2010. In addition to chairing our board, Janet is chair of the Primary Eyecare Appointments committee.