Special Representatives
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David Porter was appointed Chief of Staff and Strategy in 2016, having joined the senior Lambeth team as Director for Reconciliation in 2013. Before that he led Coventry Cathedral’s reconciliation ministry. David comes with experience in several Christian organisations at senior staff, CEO and board level and long experience in public affairs. He worked extensively on peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts in Northern Ireland, and was a member of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council and the Northern Ireland Civic Form.
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The Rt Revd Tim Thornton is the Bishop at Lambeth. Before arriving at Lambeth in 2017, he was Bishop of Truro, having previously been Bishop of Sherborne. A Yorkshireman by birth, Bishop Tim has been ordained for over 35 years. He has worked as a trustee of numerous organisations, and chaired conversations between Anglicans and Roman Catholics in Britain.
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Ailsa Anderson-Cole LVO is the Archbishop’s Director of Communications. Before joining Lambeth in 2013, Ailsa was Communications and Press Secretary to HM The Queen, having previously been Deputy Press Secretary and Head of News at Buckingham Palace. After starting her career on regional and national newspapers, Ailsa was press secretary to two ministers of state and a cabinet minister.
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The Revd Canon Dr Flora Winfield - Advisor for Reconciliation
The Revd Canon Dr Flora Winfield was appointed to this role in September 2019. Since 2017, Flora has been the Archbishop’s Special Representative to the Commonwealth. Prior to that, she was the Anglican Communion Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Previously, she has served as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Secretary for Anglican Communion Relations, as a Parish Priest, as Assistant Secretary General of Religions for Peace International and as the national ecumenical officer for the Church of England. Flora was ordained to the diaconate in 1989, and to the priesthood in 1994.
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Overseeing the reconciliation initiatives that Archbishop Justin has established since taking office in 2013. These include:
The Revd Canon Chris Russell is the Archbishop’s advisor for evangelism and witness. Chris works part time on the Archbishop’s staff and is also vicar of St Laurence in Reading, which has a particular mission among young people.
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Bishop Anthony Poggo is the Archbishop’s Adviser on Anglican Communion Affairs. Previously he spent nine years as diocesan Bishop of Kajo-Keji in South Sudan, serving as both teacher and pastor. He worked for nine years with Scripture Union in Sudan and Uganda, and obtained his Masters in Theology in 1994, before becoming Executive Director of Christian NGO ‘Across’. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his role in mobilising the church in service of the community.
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Richard was appointed to post in September 2018 after working for 15 years in inner city ministry in the Diocese of Birmingham, initially as a CMS mission partner and then as curate and parish priest in multifaith contexts. He is the author of Distinctly Welcoming: Christian Presence in a Multifaith Society (SU, 2010) and Encountering Islam: Christian-Muslim Relations in the Public Square (SCM, 2017).
Richard holds a doctorate in Christian-Muslim Relations from Heythrop College, University of London and was previously a reinsurance analyst for the French insurance group AXA before becoming a CMS mission partner in North Africa and then Birmingham.
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The Revd Dr Will Adam is the Archbishop’s Ecumenical Adviser and also works in the Council for Christian Unity of the Church of England at Church House, Westminster. Will was ordained in 1994 and served as a parish priest, most recently in London, before joining the senior staff at Lambeth Palace in early 2017. Throughout his ministry he has been involved in promoting reconciliation and unity between churches. Will retains a parish ministry as an honorary assistant priest in a rural parish in West Sussex.
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Rosemary was appointed the Archbishop’s Senior Policy Adviser for Commissions in September 2019. From November 2017 Rosemary was the Archbishop’s Adviser for Public Affairs. Prior to that she spent two decades working in international policy, advocacy and government relations roles in Westminster, as a United Nations official working for the head of a UN agency, and for foundations and non-profits.
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Jack Palmer-White is the Anglican Communion’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Institutions, which includes acting as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Personal Representative to the UN. Previously he spent five years working for the Archbishop in several roles, most recently as Social and Public Affairs Adviser. In his current role, he works to enable better relationships and more effective communication between the provinces and dioceses of the Communion and their UN partners.
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Bishop Precious had a 33-year career in the private sector. He was ordained a priest in 2002 and started his vocation with church-planting in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2014, he joined the Lambeth Palace team as the Archbishop’s Advisor on Anglican Communion Affairs, and came into the current position in 2017. He was consecrated Bishop of South Sudan and Sudan in 2016. Precious is involved with dialogue to end the South Sudan and other conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. He serves locally as an assistant bishop in Southwark diocese and an honorary assistant priest in Morden.
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The Rt Revd Dr Robert Innes is the Bishop in Europe. He represents the Archbishop of Canterbury with the Institutions of the European Union. As Bishop in Europe, he looks after the Church of England’s 42nd and easily most extensive diocese.
Bishop Robert was consecrated as the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe in July 2014. Before being made Bishop, he was Chancellor of the Pro-Cathedral of Holy Trinity, Brussels. He previously worked in parish ministry and theological education in Durham, England, and was educated in Cambridge and Durham.
He has published works on theological and psychological ideas of the self, St. Augustine, work and vocation and most recently on responding to the Professional Guidelines for the Conduct of the Clergy. His pre-ordination career was in engineering and business consultancy, working mostly for the firm that is now Accenture.
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