President: Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer, and broadcaster. Mad, Bad and Sad, her cultural history of women and the mind doctors comes out from Virago/Little Brown in February. Her fictions include the prize-winning The Memory Man (Arcadia ), the bestselling psychological thrillers Sanctuary and The Dead of Winter (Bantam); her non-fiction, the acclaimed family memoir, Losing the Dead (Chatto), as well as The Cabaret (Yale). She is the co-author of Freud's Women (Penguin) and co-editor of The Rushdie File. She also edited Free Expression is No Offence (Penguin,2006) a collection which served in PEN's campaign against the incitement to religious hatred legislation.  A former university lecturer and Deputy Director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, she has also made several programmes for television and radio, presenting BBC 3's Night Waves. She is General Editor of Profile Books Big Ideas series. As a translator from the French, she won the Scott Moncrieff prize for literary translation, with John Berger, for The Year is 42.  She is a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chair of the Freud Museum.

Director: Jonathan Heawood

Jonathan joined English PEN as Director in November 2005 from the Fabian Society, where he was responsible for publishing a wide variety of political books and pamphlets, and editing the Fabian Review. He was previously Deputy Literary Editor of the Observer, and he continues to write on culture and politics for a range of publications, including the Independent on Sunday, Prospect, the New Statesman, the London Review of Books and Country Life. He wrote the introduction to Orwell: The Observer Years (Atlantic, 2003), and is now writing a book about the cultural history of the British landscape. He would love to hear from anyone interested in English PEN's work.

Writers in Prison Programme Director: Ophelia Field 

Ophelia Field has worked with English PEN's Writers in Prison Programme since 2006. She has many years experience in the field of human rights, and is also an acclaimed biographer.

Readers and Writers Programme Manager: Simon Burt

Simon is a novelist and short story writer. He has spent the last two years working on an autobiographical fiction which is at last nearing completion. He has worked for PEN in various capacities for the last three years.

Vice-Presidents of English PEN:
Sybille Bedford, OBE; Lady Rachel Billington; William Boyd; Dame A.S. Byatt CBE; Margaret Drabble CBE; Lady Antonia Fraser CBE; Victoria Glendinning CBE; Ronald Harwood CBE; Michael Holroyd CBE; Francis King CBE; Ben Okri CBE; Harold Pinter CBE, CH; Josephine Pullein-Thompson MBE; Sir Tom Stoppard CBE; Claire Tomalin; Raleigh Trevelyan.

Board of Trustees of English PEN

Lisa Appignanesi (Deputy President); Candida Clark; Ania Corless (Chair Books to Prisoners Committee); Jan Dalley; Lennie Goodings; Jonathan Heawood (Director); Amanda Hopkinson (Chair Writers in Translation); Derek Johns; Barry Kernon (Hon. Treasurer); Hari Kunzru; Lindsay Mackie (Chair, Readers & Writers); Caroline Michel; Deborah Moggach (Chair Events Committee); Dr Alastair Niven, OBE (President); Bernard Redhouse (Accountant); Anne Sebba; Carole Seymour-Jones (Chair WiPC); Gillian Slovo; Tom Stacey.