Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, is an English drug policy reformer. In 1998, she founded the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust that promotes a rational, evidence-based approach to global drug policies and initiates, directs and supports pioneering neuroscientific and clinical research into the effects of psychoactive substances on the brain and cognition. The central aim of her research is to investigate new avenues of treatment for such mental illnesses as depression, anxiety and addiction, as well as to explore methods of enhancing well-being and creativity.

Hillis was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and the former Coleraine Technical College and has been active in the business community of Portrush where he has been president of the resort’s Chamber of Commerce and Coleraine Lions Club. He is Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) councillor on Coleraine Borough Council first elected on 1993 and was Mayor of Coleraine from 1999 to 2000, and from 2010–11.[1] Hillis was elected as a member for the Northern Ireland Assembly constituency of East Londonderry but lost his seat in the 2007 election.[2] He is UUP Representative on the Confederation of European Councillors and spokesperson for the party on matters relating to North/South and East/West issues.[3] Hillis is a Member of Coleraine’s District Policing Partnership (DPP) and is a Justice of the Peace. He is a former Chairman of the Coleraine branch of the Ulster Young Unionist Council.

TUV representative in Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council. A business woman in the local area for over 25 years. Active in the community.