George Hosking
George Hosking | |
|---|---|
| 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.[2]
Education
He graduated with an Honours M.A. degree in Political Economy with Economic History from Glasgow University in 1966;[3] 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.
In 2022, WAVE Trust attracted national attention when it was revealed that the charity did not consider child sexual abuse(CSA) to be an adverse childhood experience. [4]
References
- ^ a b "Leading Questions: George Hosking, chief executive, WAVE". The Observer. 6 December 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ "George Hosking OBE, Chief Executive Officer and Research Director". WAVE Trust. 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
- ^ hosking, george. "George Hosking - Independent Researcher". independent.academia.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
- ^ "'Holyrood group protecting at-risk children in chaos after expert quits'". The Sunday Post (Dundee). 25 September 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2025.