Management Committee

Illustration © Antonio Rodriguez
About the SoA board

The Management Committee is responsible for the direction of the SoA and makes all major policy and strategy decisions.

The Management Committee is made up of democratically-elected members who are unpaid volunteers. Voting members are directly elected by the Membership and each serve a term of three years. Read more about Management Committee elections.

Chairs of SoA groups whose membership makes up more than 5% of the total membership also sit on the Management Committee but do not have a vote.

Members wanting to raise policy matters can email the Chief Executive, Anna Ganley or Management Committee Chair, Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin. For individual queries on professional matters please contact our advisory team. 

You can find minutes of Management Committee meetings and other corporate documents in the Governance pages.

Elected members

Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin

Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin

Chair of the Management Committee: 2024-2026

Term: 2020-2022, 2023-2025

 

Helen Epega

Management Committee

Term: 2024-2027

Harriet Evans

Management Committee

Term: 2022-2025

Helen Fields

Management Committee

Term: 2023-2026

Charles Harris

Charles Harris

Management Committee

Term: 2021-2024, 2024-2027

Abie Longstaff

Abie Longstaff

Management Committee, CWIG Chair

Term: 2020-2022, 2023-2025

Nadine Matheson

Management Committee

Term: 2023-2026

Juliet McKenna

Juliet McKenna

Management Committee

Term: 2021-2024, 2024-2027

Simon Michael

Management Committee

Term: 2024-2027

Nicholas Rankin

Management Committee

Term: 2022-2025

Julia Williams

Management Committee

Term: 2023-2026

Group chairs

Alun Gibbard

Chair of SoA Cymru

Photograph © Camila França

Ian Giles

Chair of the Translators Association

Abie Longstaff

Abie Longstaff

Management Committee, CWIG Chair

Term: 2020-2022, 2023-2025

Katrina Naomi

Chair of the Poetry and Spoken Word Group

Mary Paulson-Ellis

2022-2025

Co Chair of SoA in Scotland 2024-2025

Helen Sedgwick

2022-2025

Co Chair of SoA in Scotland 2024-2025

SoAiS Treasurer 2024-2025

Rhona Snelling

Chair of the Educational Writers Group

Rhiannon Tise

Rhiannon Tise

Chair of the Scriptwriters Group