George Hosking

George Dunne Cameron Hosking OBE (born 27 December 1943 in Bowmore, in the Hebridean island of Islay)^[1] is a British Quaker, economist, accountant, psychologist, and clinical criminologist^[1] who founded WAVE Trust in 1996.^[2]

George Hosking
Born	George Dunne Cameron Hosking 27 December 1943 Bowmore, Isle of Islay, Scotland
Awards	OBE
Academic background
Alma mater	Glasgow University, London University, Birmingham University, Nottingham Trent University
Academic work
Institutions	WAVE Trust (founder)
Main interests	Economist, accountant, psychologist, and clinical criminologist
Notable works	The strategic management of costs (1993); Violence and what to do about it (2005, with Ita Walsh); International experience of early intervention for children, young people and their families (2010, with Ita Walsh); Conception to age 2 - the age of opportunity (2013, with Sally Burlington and Ita Walsh)
Notable ideas	to solve deep-seated problems you must first understand the root causes, then tackle those root causes

Education

He graduated with an Honours M.A. degree in Political Economy with Economic History from Glasgow University in 1966;^[3] qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1969 (later becoming a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, FCMA); graduated with a First Class Honours B.Sc. degree in psychology from Birkbeck College, London University, in 1983; with a PG Diploma in Clinical Criminology from Birmingham University in 1998; and with an Advanced PG Diploma in the Management of Psychological Trauma from Nottingham Trent University in 2000.

Hosking was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to reducing violence, particularly child abuse.^[4][5]

WAVE Trust attracted national attention in 2022 when it was revealed that the charity had not included child sexual abuse in its 70/30 campaign. This led to the cross-party group on the Prevention and Healing of Adverse Childhood Experiences disbanding.^[6]The decision was also condemned as being unethical and wrong and ran the risk of silencing victims by the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse ^[7]

A Freedom of Information release submitted to the Scottish government also revealed that, in 2022, Hosking made an offer of financial support to John Swinney MSP in exchange for a meeting with him to discuss the work of WAVE Trust.^[8]