CCRC chief spent public funds on luxury hotels for business courses in France Exclusive: Justice watchdog’s Karen Kneller enrolled on courses advertised for thousands of pounds at Insead, where CCRC’s then chair held roles.
Helen Pitcher, the former chair of the CCRC, held multiple positions at Insead while Kneller attended these courses, including as president of the business school’s directors network board.
The chief executive of the miscarriage of justice watchdog spent thousands of pounds of public money on luxury French hotels while enrolling on courses at an elite business school at which her organisation’s then chair held positions.
Karen Kneller, the chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, is known to have regularly attended Insead business school in Fontainebleau over the past five years.
One staff member said there was a clear “conflict of interest” in Kneller being sent on courses at an institution Pitcher was involved in “at a location that is vastly more expensive than very similar courses available in the UK”.
