director, Civitas Schools; commentator on food issues
Justine Brian is Director of the schools’ programme for the think tank Civitas and, as the former director of the sixth form Debating Matters competition, is a current DM Ambassador. Justine believes in education and grappling with big ideas – and practised what she preaches by completing a degree in Classical Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, as a mature student. She loves good food and hates food snobbery, and learned to cook at Westminster College. She is an occasional writer on food issues, and her greatest media claim to fame was being on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on the issue of ‘frugal food’, which made her Mum extremely proud.