Hartley Booth OBE
Gained degrees in law and international law at Bristol and Cambridge Universities and was awarded a doctorate by Cambridge in 1981.
He won a scholarship in the inner Temple where he qualified as a barrister at law.
He was the youngest member of the Royal commission on Legal Services and between 1984 and 88 he was the only barrister to serve in 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister Thatcher’s adviser on law and order as well as on the environment during her 15-year term as leader of the party.
He was elected to the British Parliament in 1992 and served the full term till 1997 during which he had appointments on numerous select committees and had a junior ministerial post in the Foreign and Commonwealth office and the Department of Education.
After leaving Parliament he was appointed by the foreign office to lead a trade promotion quango in Central Asia which he undertook for 14 years travelling to Asia particularly Uzbekistan on numerous occasions.
Specifically on education experience he has been: a member of the Court of Middlesex University, a governor of several schools and the external Director of the nationally important exam board Edexcel undertaking a three year body of research between 1999 and 2001 on the standards of school examination in the UK. He has also has been a part-time lecturer in five universities including Duke University and the University of North Carolina. For 10 years he presided once a week in the High Court in England teaching bar students advocacy.
He has written or edited 21 books or booklets on law and politics.
He has been awarded the OBE by the former Queen Elizabeth II and the equivalent of a knighthood by the president of Uzbekistan.
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