Who We Are

VERO was founded by members and graduates of Oxford University, and enjoys the support of a number of prominent patrons, many of them Oxford graduates themselves:

Tony Benn, politician (New College)
Ann Widdecombe, MP (Lady Margaret Hall)
Richard Adams, author (Worcester College)
Dr Stephen R.L.Clark, philosopher (Balliol & All Souls)
Prof. Vernon Reynolds, anthropologist (Professor Emeritus, Oxford University)
Sir David Madden, WSPA consultant and former UK ambassdor to Greece (Merton College)
Dr Richard Ryder, philosopher and former Senior Clinical Psychologist at Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Dr Caroline Lucas, Green MEP & Green Party Leader
Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
Annette Crosbie OBE, actress
Joanna Lumley OBE, actress
Juliet Gellatley, Director of Viva!
Udo Schuklenk, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics Joint Editor-in-Chief Bioethics & Developing World Bioethics
Julia Stephenson, Independent columnist
Rev. James Thompson, founder of Christians Against All Animal Abuse
Mike Hancock, MP
Dr Jeffrey Masson, writer
JM Coetzee, author and Nobel Prize winner