Ben Summerskill

Ben Summerskill
OBE
Giving a speech at the Stonewall Awards, November 2011
Born6 October 1961 (1961-10-06) (age 63)[1]
Kent, England
NationalityBritish
Education
Alma materMerton College, Oxford
Occupations
Years active1987–present
TitleChief executive of Stonewall (2003–2014)
PredecessorAngela Mason (1992–2002)
SuccessorRuth Hunt (2014–2019)

Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill OBE (born 6 October 1961)[2] is chair of The Silver Line[3] and director of the Criminal Justice Alliance, a consortium of 135 charities working across the GB criminal justice pathway.[4][5] He was the chief executive of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality organisation Stonewall, the largest gay equality body in Europe, from 2003 to 2014. He has also worked as a businessman and journalist. Summerskill is an occasional contributor to The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Times, Time Out and other publications. In 2015 he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British LGBT Awards[6] In 2017, he was appointed by the UK government to the council (Board) of ACAS, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service.[7] He was first appointed a trustee of the Silver Line in 2017.[8]

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  2. ^ "Industry : Public Sector Articles". The Times. London. Retrieved 1 November 2013.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Who's moving where? Appointments round-up". Fundraising UK. 1 May 2018. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Former Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill to head the Criminal Justice Alliance". Third Sector. 2 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  5. ^ "committed to improving the CJS". Criminal Justice Alliance. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Home". British LGBT Awards. 2 August 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  7. ^ "Government announces appointment of 2 Acas Council members". Acas. gov.uk. 30 June 2017. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Ben Summerskill joins the Council as an independent member and Christina McAnea as an employee representative
  8. ^ THE SILVER LINE BOLSTERS ITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES WITH FIVE NEW APPOINTMENTS Archived 26 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine. 5 April 2017, The Silver Line. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019