Professor Margaret Cox

Margaret Cox is Professor of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology at Cranfield University and 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.

Margaret regularly undertakes work for the Ministry of Defence / Commonwealth War Graves Commission and UK police forces. 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.

In the 1990s Margaret was asked to assist with several UK criminal investigations involving the recovery of 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. Four years ago Margaret established a charity ‘Inforce' an international forensic centre of excellence for the investigation of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This organisation 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.