Report Authors
The review consisted of three members, chaired by Bain. Their credentials are described below, when the report was publiched in 2002. The IRFS took three months to complete, the first firefighter strikes were in November, just before the IRFS was published.
- Professor Sir George Bain, President and Vice-chancellor, Queen's University Belfast
- Professor Sir Michael Lyons, Director, INLOGOV and Professor of Public Policy, University of Birmingham. In 2007 he was appointed as chair of the BBC Trust
- Sir Anthony Young, Trade Union Liaison Officer, Ethical Trading Initiative; and lately President of the Trades Union Congress
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