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The Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green | |
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 Hunt in 2022 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 28 October 2019 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ruth Elizabeth Hunt 12 March 1980 Cardiff, Wales |
| Political party | None (crossbencher) |
| Domestic partner | Caroline Ellis |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Former Chief Executive of Stonewall |
Ruth Elizabeth Hunt, Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green (born 12 March 1980) is a Welsh administrator who was Chief Executive of UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality charity Stonewall,[1] the largest LGBTQ equality body in Europe,[citation needed] from 2014 until her resignation in 2019.[2]
Hunt was nominated for a life peerage and Crossbench member of the House of Lords in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[3] She was created Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, of Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on 16 October 2019.[4]
She was formerly President of the Oxford University Student Union.
- ^ "Stonewall". Stonewall.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2 March 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- ^ "Former Stonewall chief executive Ruth Hunt to join the House of Lords". www.civilsociety.co.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ "Resignation Peerages 2019" (PDF). Cabinet Office. 10 September 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ "No. 62802". The London Gazette. 22 October 2019. p. 18924.