Mike Trace is CEO of the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners' trust. Before leaving a secondment to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2003, he was director of performance at the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse. He was the deputy UK 'drug czar' from 1997-2001. Previous to this, he worked in and managed projects tackling drug-related offending, including heading up the criminal justice service at Cranstoun Projects and working for the California Youth Authority on rehabilitation for drug-using offenders. He chaired UN technical committees on drugs issues and was for two years chair of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, where he oversaw the collection and analysis of objective, reliable information concerning drugs and drug addiction at a European level.