Professor Margaret Cox

Margaret Cox recently retired from her post as Professor of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology at Cranfield University and now undertakes freelance consultancy in her area of expertise. She is well known as the Forensic Anthropologist or human bone specialist for Channel 4's Time Team. She has also appeared in the BBC's Meet the Ancestors and numerous TV documentaries and radio programmes. With over 100 publications to her name she is an internationally acclaimed specialist in her field.

Margaret regularly undertakes work for the Ministry of Defence and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. She is also an experienced osteoarchaeologist and has worked on archaeological sites around the world, the best known in the UK being the crypt beneath Christ Church, Spitalfields where 1000 skeletons were recovered from the 18th and 19th centuries, many of whom were of Huguenot descent and silk weavers.

Her most recent work has been acting as Scientific Advisor to the UK and Australian Governments for the Fromelles Project. This unique project has witnessed the excavation of 250 soldiers buried by the German army near Fromelles village in northern France. These gallant men died fighting for the Australian and British armies at the Battle of Fromelles on 19th July 1916. A process of archaeological, anthropological and historic research, combined with DNA analysis has resulted in the identification of 96 of these soldiers. Margaret designed the identification process and chaired its implementation. This project will continue until 2014.

In the 1990s Margaret was asked to assist with several UK criminal investigations recovering human remains from clandestine graves. This ultimately led to her involvement in the excavation of mass graves in Kosovo in 1999 and subsequent work in the investigation of serious international crime since then in such places as Rwanda, Iraq and Cyprus. Ten years ago Margaret established a charity ‘Inforce' an international forensic centre of excellence for the investigation of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Inforce has gone from strength to strength and is now a world leader advising the UK and other governments, and the UN about investigations of the most heinous of crimes. Inforce also trains people from post-conflict countries in forensic sciences so that they can undertake their own forensic investigations and to empower them to take charge of their future. She was honoured with the European Union's Woman of Achievement Award (Humanitarian section) in 2002 for this work.

Margaret also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. She has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad.

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