Giving a speech at the Stonewall Awards, November 2011
Born
6 October 1961 (1961-10-06) (age 62)[1]
Kent, England
Nationality
British
Education
Cobden Road Infants School
Amherst County Primary School
Sevenoaks School
Alma mater
Merton College, Oxford
Occupations
Businessman
Equality campaigner
Journalist
Years active
1987–present
Title
Chief executive of Stonewall (2003–2014)
Predecessor
Angela Mason (1992–2002)
Successor
Ruth Hunt (2014–2019)
Ben Jeffrey Peter SummerskillOBE (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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^"Industry : Public Sector Articles". The Times. London. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
^"Who's moving where? Appointments round-up". Fundraising UK. 1 May 2018. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
^"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.
^"committed to improving the CJS". Criminal Justice Alliance. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
^"Home". British LGBT Awards. 2 August 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
^"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
^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
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