Neil Stewart
Editorial Director
The Equality & Diversity Hub
Neil Stewart is a public policy specialist with wide experience, who has worked in on government affairs, in Parliament and for Associations managing high profile and contested public policy. He was an advisor on the 2009 Climategate controversy – an early template for current controversies.
Professor Ivor Gaber
Professor of Political Journalism
University of Sussex
Ivor Gaber is a broadcaster and journalist who has worked in political and news programmes and reporting over several decades bringing unique insight into the development of stories.
Peter Horne
Principal
Nous Group
Peter Horne is a Principal at the Nous Group, has worked with universities and NHS bodies seeking to address racial disparities and previously worked at the Electoral Commission involved in high level controversies.
Simon Fanshawe OBE
Author of “The Power of Difference”,
Broadcaster, partner in Diversity by Design
Simon Fanshawe OBE is a co founder and partner of Diversity by Design a ground breaking consultancy that works with organisations to develop diversity solutions to strategic questions in order to build greater performance. www.diversitybydesign.co.uk
Our current clients include: Sheffield, Cardiff, Kingston, Hertfordshire Universities, FirstGroup, Costa, Virgin Media, the Co-op, GCHQ, NSPCC, The College of Policing, The Army.
From 2007 – 2013 he was chairman of the University of Sussex governing Council. He is currently on the Boards of Brighton Dome and Festival, Housing and Care 21 and is a Trustee of The Museum of London.
He was a co-founder of one of the most successful lobby and campaign groups in recent times, the lesbian and gay equality organisation Stonewall. He is now a co-founder of the Kaleidoscope Trust, supporting lgbti activists abroad.
He is also a broadcaster, writer and pundit. He was awarded the OBE in the New Years Honours list 2013 for services to Higher Education. And he was made an Honorary Doctor of the University of Sussex for services to diversity and human rights in 2013.
Dan Robertson
Director
Vercida Consulting
Highly respected as a subject matter expert on workplace diversity & inclusion, unconscious bias and inclusive leadership, Dan Robertson is the Director of Vercida Consulting.
Dan has a particular expertise in the science and application of unconscious bias, leadership decision-making and behavioural economics. He spends his days supporting executives to turn diversity theory into meaningful actions. He is acknowledged as an inspirational conference speaker and an expert facilitator working across a wide range of business sectors globally, including Asset Management, Banking, Insurance, Private Equity, Pensions, Legal, Professional Services, Consulting, Media, Oil and Gas, Recruitment and many others.
He has provided tailored learning, facilitating face to face workshops and delivering conference presentations covering themes including bias reduction and inclusive leadership to a wide range of global organisations based in London, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels, Moscow, Prague, Zurich, Dubai, Dublin, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Bali, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Johannesburg, amongst others.
He sits as an advisor to the following:
The Lord Mayor of London’s Power of Diversity programme (London)
ICEDR’s QUEST programme: Supporting early career woman (Boston, USA)
Publications: The Long Road to Inclusivity: Published in Beyond 2015, Shaping the Future of Equality, Human Rights and Social Justice. A Collection of Essays: Equality & Diversity Research Network. 2015.
Baroness Falkner of Margravine
Chair
EHRC
Kishwer, Baroness Falkner of Margravine (Chair, EHRC)
Kishwer Falkner serves as a Member of the House of Lords where she is a Cross Bench member. In the Lords, she was a spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats on Home Affairs, Justice and Foreign Affairs from 2004-2015. She has also served on several parliamentary committees including Chairing the EU Sub-Committee on Financial Affairs, and as a Member of the EU Select Committee, Constitution Committee, the Joint Committee on Human Rights; and the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy.
Kishwer was formerly Policy Director at the Liberal Democrats; a political researcher at the Commonwealth Secretariat, and has held Fellowships at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (2010), and at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2006).
Kishwer’s academic background is in International Relations, obtaining degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Kent.
Susan Clews
Chief Executive
Acas
Susan Clews was appointed as Acas Chief Executive in December 2018.
Since joining Acas as an adviser and conciliator over 25 years ago, Susan has had a range of operational and leadership roles. She was Director for Acas Yorkshire & Humber and Acas North West teams and has held national roles as Acas Strategy Director and Chief Operations Officer.
Susan is passionate about making workplaces productive and good places to work, based on strong foundations of compassionate leadership, employee voice and inclusive workplace culture. She is developing how Acas supports business and employees as independent, impartial and trusted workplace experts, as the labour market re-builds after the pandemic. Susan is proud to have been in the civil service for most of her working life, and to work with the great people in Acas.
