Antony Billington

Prior to joining LICC in November 2007, Antony taught Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology at London School of Theology for sixteen years. As Head of Faculty, his role is to contribute to, and develop, the biblical and theological breadth and depth of the LICC faculty and our ongoing work with Christians, churches, and church leaders.

Ben Care

Ben has been working as LICC's Imagine Project Facilitator since September 2008, although he joined the Institute on a part time basis a year earlier, whilst completing his studies at the London School of Theology. With degrees in theology and English, Ben has previously served with a Baptist church and in the literacy department of Wycliffe Bible Translators. As Project Facilitator he extends the work of the Imagine project through engagement on a congregational level and project evaluation.

Brian Draper

Brian Draper is a writer, thinker and speaker who nurtures the 'spiritual
intelligence' of leaders through his enterprise called Echosounder

He is the author of Searching 4 Faith (Lion), and regularly presents BBC
Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day' on the Today programme.

He has often written for U2.com and performs interviews with leading
cultural figures for various publications. His interview with Radiohead's Thom Yorke was described by the Observer as 'an incredible scoop... miraculous'. The cult author of Generation X, Douglas Coupland, said that Brian's interview with him was 'the best I've done'.

Brian used to be editor of Third Way magazine, and is an associate lecturer at LICC. He works in the spirit of co-operation and communion with MCA, a business consultancy in Winchester.

Brian has developed alternative forms of personal reflection, and together with his sister-in-law Ana Draper (a leading systemic psychotherapist) and his brother Kevin (a pioneering youth-worker and author) helped to co-create 'the labyrinth', a walking meditation which subsequently toured the
country's cathedrals and has been used in prisons and schools.

Jason Gardner

Jason Gardner is LICC's Lecturer in Youth Discipleship. His work aims to look in depth at what it takes to create passionate whole-life followers of Christ today. He's also published a book on intergenerational ministry, Mend the Gap: Can the ChurchReconnect the Generations? and has spoken at Spring Harvest, New Wine and Soul Survivor. Jason also supports his wife Rachel with a sex and relationships mentoring project entitled 'Romance Academy'. Prior to joining the staff at LICC, Jason completed degrees in English and Theology, and he's been a voluntary youth worker all his adult life, currently working with a missional youth project called 'Ignite' at Holy Trinity Wealdstone in North West London.

Mark Greene

Mark is LICC’s Executive Director and has been in post since 1999. Before that he served as Vice-Principal and Lecturer in Communications at the London School of Theology. And before that he spent ten years working in advertising in London and New York, a fact he is still prepared to admit.

Mark has been a pioneer in workplace ministry for two decades and has spoken widely on the topic in the UK, continental Europe and in the US.

Underpinning his commitment to seeing God's people equipped and envisioned for ministry, mission and maturity in the workplace lies a broader commitment to seeing God's people envisioned and supported for whatever context they find themselves in - whole-life discipleship. It was this conviction that fuelled the ground-breaking essay - 'Imagine how we can Reach the UK' - and the project that grew out of it.

Peter Heslam

Dr Peter Heslam is Director of Transforming Business, a multi-disciplinary research and development project on enterprise solutions to poverty at Cambridge University. He works particularly closely with faculty at the University's Judge Business School and with leaders in international business. Peter's academic background covers social science, history and ethics and he holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge.

Peter has an established international reputation for work at the interface between ethics, business, society and culture. He has published widely, including a book on the Dutch political theorist and former Prime Minister, Abraham Kuyper. He is a prolific writer, speaker, researcher and commentator on the role of business in economic and social development. His publications include Globalization: Unravelling the New Capitalism and Globalization and the Good.

Peter has lectured to university and business audiences around the world and was formerly the Convenor of JustShare (a consortium of 20 development agencies concerned with global economic ethics) and an Adviser to Lambeth Palace on the issue of globalization. The recipient of a number of prizes and awards, he is a Senior Member of Trinity College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the International Leadership Association and an Adviser to the Centre for Entrepreneurial Leaders at Trinity Western University in Canada.

Nigel Hopper

Nigel performs the twin role of Lecturer in Contemporary Culture and Communications Manager at LICC. Nigel began his working life as a Management Trainee at WH Smith. He then went to study theology at London Bible College (now LST), where he completed both the BA and the MTh - the latter an original piece of research into the possible religious significance of rock and pop music fandom. He then spent five years as minister of a small Baptist church in Ipswich before taking up the position of Managing Editor within the Publishing Department at Scripture Union. During his five years with SU, Nigel wrote extensively for their all-age worship resources and Bible reading guides, and was responsible for the successful relaunch of their Connect Bible Studies range, which includes Brian Draper's Thinking Biblically about the iPod title.

Neil Hudson

Neil began working with LICC as the Church-Life Consultant on the Imagine project in September 2006. For the past ten years he worked at Regents Theological College, serving there latterly as its Vice Principal. His main areas of teaching concerned the missiological relationship between the Church and wider society. He co-leads a church in Salford.

Brett Jordan

Born 24 July 1961, Brett had a superb childhood thanks to a wonderful mother (Christina), a fantastic father (Clive), and an awesome younger brother (Gareth); involving laughter, walking, swimming, sailing and cycling
while living in Fiji, Australia and England.

A Christian since 1980, Brett is the father of four loving, intelligent children; Sky (b.1986), Brook (b.1988), Cyan (b.1991), Zak (b.1992). He divorced in1995, and now worships at Northolt Park Baptist Church. Brett is realistically optimistic - INFJ with INTJ tendencies. He loves honesty, and hates his dishonesty. He is gregarious, but covets his own space.

He is Director of a print/design company, and is skilled in, among other things, concepts, typography, design and copywriting. Brett is willing to work hard for something that he wants, and exercises six days a week - mainly weight-training, supplemented with running & Pilates. He enjoys music, images and words, food, wine and conversation with friends.

John Lee

John Lee works as part of the LICC team in Manchester, helping with the Connecting with Culture programme. Splitting his time, he works as an architect with Arca, his own award-winning practice founded in 1998, and teaches in the post-graduate architecture school at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has a particular passion for the way the cultures of the arts, popular music and modern technology can be understood in biblical perspective.

Helen Parry

Helen Parry taught English language and literature in African Universities for twenty years. She has filled various roles at LICC, including librarian and bookshop manager. She lectures mainly on issues in Christian Discipleship.

Nick Spencer

Nick is Director of Studies at Theos, the public theology think tank. He previously worked as Research Director at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity and as researcher and writer for the Jubilee Centre, and has a background is in a quantitative and qualitative market and social research, for Research International and the strategic marketing consultancy, The Henley Centre.

Nick researches and writes on issues of religion and society. He is the author of a number of books and reports, most recently Neither Private nor Privileged: The role of Christianity in Britain today (Theos, 2008) and Darwin and God (SPCK, 2009). He contributes to The Guardian, Church Times, Third Way and has a blog on the Telegraph

Paul Valler

Former Finance Director of Hewlett-Packard Ltd, Paul was previously European General Manager for HP's European Leasing Business and Founding Director of Hewlett-Packard International Bank in Dublin.

A Teaching Elder at Finchampstead Baptist Church, with an itinerant preaching ministry, Paul also regularly speaks at conferences on topics such as 'Faith in the Workplace', 'Developing Leadership', 'Subverting the Target Culture' and 'Work/Life integration'. His book Get a Life - Winning Choices for Working People is published by IVP.

Paul is married to Helen, and they have two sons, Matt and Dave, and recently became grandparents.