Professor Betsy Stanko OBE is the senior academic advisor and co-architect of Operation Soteria. For over a decade, she worked in the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and the London Metropolitan Police Service’s Corporate Development, establishing a social research function alongside performance analysis to improve crime and justice in London. She was a professor of criminology, teaching and researching at Clark University (USA), Brunel University, Cambridge University and Royal Holloway, University of London (where she is an Emeritus Professor of Criminology). Professor Stanko is a recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s Vollmer Award (1996), recognising her outstanding influence on criminal justice practice.