Gerry Isaaman is a journalist and former member of the Press Complaints Commission 1993-95; editor of the Ham & High (formally the Hampstead and Highgate Express) for twenty-five years and general manager  for four years; editorial consultant Home Counties Newspapers 1994-99; external examiner for City University's Department of Journalism and executive member of the Association of British Editors 1985-99 (deputy chairman 1994-99); he won a special award for distinguished services to journalism in the British Press Awards 1994 and was made an OBE in the same year; he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.