Meet our Council
BASC is governed by an elected Council and any full member of the association can be nominated, and if selected will serve for five years, for a maximum of two terms.
Eoghan Cameron
Chairman
Elected 2017
Scotland seat (Angus)
Eoghan lives in rural Angus and is dedicated to protecting and promoting sustainable shooting for generations to come. He has participated in field sports since childhood and his passions are deer stalking, all forms of driven and walked-up game shooting, as well as casting the odd fly. A BASC member of 24 years, he is also a trustee of SYCET and WHCT.
Claire Sadler
Vice chair
Elected 2018
National seat (London)
Claire is a keen game shot and deer stalker. She also enjoys clay shooting, air rifles, working her dogs and fishing. Claire is a passionate advocate for fieldsports and works to encourage more women and young people into the outdoors. Claire is Head of Legal for a technology company and has a background in FCA and contentious matters. Claire is also on the judging panel for the Purdey Conservation Awards.
Lord Geoffrey Dear
President
As a retired police officer, a former chief constable and a member of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, Lord Dear has been a BASC member for 39 years. He was elected president of the association in 2017. He lists country sports as a recreation and is a keen Shot who has previously supported the charitable work of the BASC Wildlife Fund.
Oliver McCullough
Elected 2015
Northern Ireland seat (County Down)
Oliver has been a member of BASC/WAGBI for 51 years. He is a keen wildfowler and woodcock shooter. He has been a committee member of the Comber Wildfowlers for the past 18 years and is also the club’s representative on the joint council on Strangford Lough. He has chaired BASC’s Executive and Finance Committee and led in the governance review of the association.
Professor Ann Mortimer
Elected 2015
National seat (Yorkshire)
Ann enjoys air rifle, shotgun and rifle shooting. She is a member of a ladies-only roving syndicate and a regular deer stalker. As a psychiatrist with 42 years’ experience, she teaches junior doctors and firearms enquiry officers about mental health and firearms issues.
Al Gabriel
Elected 2020
National seat (Northumberland)
Al is a molecular biologist with a background in ecology and genetics. He is a keen deer stalker and a freelance writer for shooting magazines. Al has a strong interest in promoting diversity in shooting and public understanding of country sports.
Ian Grindy
Elected 2014
National seat (Lancashire)
Ian is a retired estate manager and was a professional gamekeeper for 33 years. He has a wealth of experience working with statutory and non-statutory organisations, and an interest in deer stalking, wildfowling and grouse moor management.
Robin Marshall-Ball
Elected 2016
England seat (Wiltshire)
Robin was a secondary school teacher for 27 years. He has also worked in the food industry and as BASC’s conservation officer in south-west England. He is now retired and conducts game cookery demonstrations at events. Robin has written many articles for shooting magazines. He has published seven books on shooting-related matters.
John Furbisher
Elected 2023
National seat (Yorkshire)
John was a Sunday Times staff reporter, Yorkshire Post deputy editor, editor of two regional daily newspapers and worked in Brussels as head of media for British MEPs before forming his own consultancy. He enjoys a round of clays, driven and walked-up game days, shooting for gundog trials and the occasional stalking trip. He also undertake pest control duties on local farms.
Chris Barker
Elected 2021
National Seat (Yorkshire)
Chris has been shooting for 45 years and a member of BASC for 32 years. He is secretary of the Fenland Wildfowlers and serves on the Hull and East Riding Wildfowlers Association committee. Semi-retired, he lives with his wife and their four dogs on a smallholding in the Yorkshire Wolds where they raise their own rare-breed pork and lamb.
John Harlow
Elected 2022
National seat (Lincolnshire)
A passionate wildfowler, John also picks up on his local farm shoot and loves training his dogs. Now retired, he served in the Metropolitan Police for 30 years, progressing to the rank of chief inspector for the last ten years of his career.
Richard Garner Williams
Elected 2022
Wales seat (Cardiff)
Richard’s shooting interests mainly centre around deer management, with a bit of walked-up game shooting thrown into the mix. He is also a committed angler and passionate about defending shooting sports from those who wish to see an end to them.
Ian Coghill
(Co-opted in 2018)
Ian is a former chairman of the GWCT and a lifelong conservationist and sportsman. He believes profoundly – based on a huge body of direct experience and scientific research – that properly conducted fieldsports are not just a force for good in the countryside, but essential. Without all or any of them the British countryside would be immeasurably poorer in every respect.
BASC committees
Chairman
Oliver McCullough (BASC Council member)
Members
Ann Mortimer (BASC Council member)
Chris Barker (BASC Council member)
Richard Garner Williams (BASC Council member)
Robin Marshall-Ball (BASC Council member)
John Harlow (BASC Council member)
Ex-Officio members
Ian Bell (Chief Executive)
Angela Davies (Executive Director of Business Management)
Eoghan Cameron (BASC Chairman)
Claire Sadler (BASC Vice Chair)
Minute secretary
Sandra Forkin
Chair
Robin Marshall-Ball (BASC Council member)
Vice Chair
Gareth Dockerty (Deputy Director Shooting and Operations)
Members
Sean Adamson (South West England)
Robert Lock (South East England)
Rob Minty (East)
Charlie Parkes (Central England)
Martin Price (Central England)
Chris Salisbury (Southwest)
Carl Woodall (Central)
Chair
Oliver McCullough (BASC Council member)
Vice Chair
Tommy Mayne (Director, Northern Ireland)
Members
Rosemary Fleming
John Hetherington
Biff Keenan
Lionel Knobbs
Davy McBride
Alan Morrow
Theo Nugent
Chair
Eoghan Cameron (BASC Council member)
Vice Chair
Peter Clark (Director, Scotland)
Members
Graeme Dalby
Mike Hardy
Mike Holliday
Luise Janniche
Scott Mackenzie
Alan Marshall
Calvert McKibbin
Mark McKinney
David Stewart
Alisdair Troup
Barbara Marshall
Ellie Louise Sinclair
Chair
Dr Al Gabriel (BASC Council member)
Vice Chair
Martin Edwards (Head of Deer Management),
Members
Richard Garner Williams (BASC Council member)
John Hetherington
Sam Thompson
John Thornley OBE
Carl Woodall
Chair
Chris Barker (BASC Council member)
Vice Chair
James Green (Head of Wildfowl and Wetlands)
Members
Ryan Adamson
Terry Behan (BASC staff member – communication and member liaison)
Peter Catling
George Downing
Graham Downing
Matt Dutton (BASC staff member – inland duck shooting and fed flight ponds)
Ian Coghill (Co-opted BASC Council member)
Glynn Cook
John Harlow (BASC Council member)
Dr Mat Holloway
JP Humberstone
Craig Jenkinson
Brian Johnson
Allan MacDonald
Robin Marshall-Ball (BASC Council member)
Allen Musselwhite
Terry Neill
Peter Nichols
Richard Playle
Mike Sherman
William Wykes
Chairman
Robin Marshall-Ball
Vice-Chair
Gareth Dockerty
Members
Claire Sadler
Ian Bell
Christopher Graffius
Chelsea Bubb
Ian Grindy
Sandra Forkin
