Kathy Gyngell has a first class honours degree in social anthropology from Cambridge and an Oxford M.Phil. in sociology. She has worked for the former ITV companies, LWT and TV-am as a producer and senior programme executive. A full time mother after the birth of her second son, she founded the voluntary organization Full Time Mothers. In 1999 she and David Keighley set up Minotaur Media Tracking, the precursor to Newswatch, the independent broadcast media monitoring service of which she is an associate director. She has jointly authored three papers for the Centre for Policy Studies on broadcast issues – An Outbreak of Narcolepsy (2004), Blair’s EU Turn (2004), BBC Bias (2005) and most recently The Phoney War on Drugs (2009).
Kathy was also instrumental in preparing Shaun Bailey’s pamphlet for the CPS, No Man’s Land: how Britain’s inner city youth are being failed and co authored with Ray Lewis, From Latchkey to Leadership: Channelling the Talents of Inner City Youth. She chaired and authored the Addictions Reports of the Social Justice Policy Review for the Conservative Party, published in Breakdown Britain in December 2006 and Breakthrough Britain in July 2007. She is chair of the newly formed Addictions Policy Forum at the CPS.
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