George Hosking
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George Hosking | |
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| Born | George Dunne Cameron Hosking 27 December 1943 Bowmore, Isle of Islay, Scotland |
| Awards | OBE |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Glasgow University, London University, Birmingham University, Nottingham Trent University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | WAVE Trust (founder) |
| Main interests | Economist, accountant, psychologist, and clinical criminologist |
| Notable works | The strategic management of costs (1993); Violence and what to do about it (2005, with Ita Walsh); International experience of early intervention for children, young people and their families (2010, with Ita Walsh); Conception to age 2 - the age of opportunity (2013, with Sally Burlington and Ita Walsh) |
| Notable ideas | to solve deep-seated problems you must first understand the root causes, then tackle those root causes |
George Dunne Cameron Hosking OBE (born 27 December 1943 in Bowmore, in the Hebridean island of Islay)[1] is a British Quaker, economist, accountant, psychologist, and clinical criminologist[1] who founded WAVE Trust in 1996.
Education[edit]
He graduated with an Honours M.A. degree in Political Economy with Economic History from Glasgow University in 1966; qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1969 (later becoming a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, FCMA); graduated with a First Class Honours B.Sc. degree in Psychology from Birkbeck College, London University, in 1983; with a PG Diploma in Clinical Criminology from Birmingham University in 1998; and with an Advanced PG Diploma in the Management of Psychological Trauma from Nottingham Trent University in 2000.
Career[edit]
Hosking has been successful in taking WAVE Trust from a small organization chatting about how to tackle the root causes of violence[2] in internet chat rooms, to being WAVE adviser to the UK Home Office[citation needed], Prime Minister's Strategy Unit[citation needed], Metropolitan Police[citation needed], Centre for Social Justice[citation needed] and Scottish Violence Reduction Unit[citation needed] on violence reduction. The World Health Organization have commended WAVE’s groundbreaking work[citation needed] and WAVE has become part of WHO’s global Violence Prevention Alliance[3]
Hosking has looked at how to tackle violence at it roots by identifying and understanding root causes, rather than operating on symptoms. His consultancy has helped transform profitability for well-known international companies.[citation needed]
Hosking has been doing therapeutic work with violent criminals both in prison and after release. To date none of his clients have re-offended with violence[citation needed], in or out of prison.
Hosking was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to reducing violence, particularly child abuse.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Leading Questions: George Hosking, chief executive, WAVE". The Observer. 6 December 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ Townsend, Mark (16 October 2005). "Violence blamed on teenage mums". The Observer. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ "WHO - Worldwide Alternatives to Violence (WAVE)". WHO. Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b13.