Who We Are

Gea de Jong, PhD, MPhil (Cantab)

Gea de Jong is the Director of FRA.  She holds a PhD in forensic phonetics from the University of Florida, and has held several full-time academic posts including Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. She has undertaken forensic investigations since 1994, for both prosecution and defence.


Professor John Harris, PhD

John Harris is Professor of Linguistics at University College London.  He is an authority on phonology and the regional and social variation of speech and language. He is widely published and has been consulted in forensic cases for over 20 years, for both prosecution and defence.
 

Geoff Lindsey, PhD 

Geoff Lindsey has held full-time posts in phonetics at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he was also Director of the Phonetics Laboratory. He has worked on forensic cases since 1997, for both prosecution and defence.