Head of Policy: Theo Gavrielides
Dr. Gavrielides is the Head of Policy of Race on the Agenda (ROTA). He also serves as a Trustee of the London Voluntary Service Council (LVSC), and as a member of the Crown Prosecution Service Community Involvement Panel. Theo is a restorative justice and human rights expert with particular interest in issues of public and social policy, strategy and public service delivery. He is also the founder and Director of Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS), a youth-led think-tank that empowers young people to influence policy and practices that affect them.
Previously, he worked at the Ministry of Justice as the human rights advisor of the Consumer Strategy and Constitution Directorate's Human Rights Insight Project, which aimed to identify strategies that will further implement the principles underlying the Human Rights Act and improve health, social and council services. During 2002-2004, he worked as a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) alongside Professorial Research Fellow Francesca Klug OBE. He is also a legal counsel specialising in criminal law, human rights and EU law. He taught criminal law and common law reasoning and institutions at the University of London, and has acted as a human rights and criminal justice consultant for various Chambers and government bodies.
Dr. Gavrielides obtained a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD, 2004) and a Masters in Human Rights Law from Nottingham University (LL.M in Human Rights Law, 2000). He graduated from the National University of Athens with a law degree and practised law at Gavrielides & Co. He has published extensively in academic journals (e.g. “Criminal Law Forum”, “Ratio Juris”, “International Journal of Comparative Criminology”, “European Journal of Criminology”), while his book “Restorative Justice theory and practice” has been published by the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI).