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Chief Executive Officer

Simon brings to Stonewall a wealth of leadership experience in the charity and social justice space. He was Chief Executive at Mental Health First Aid England, a role he held from October 2018, where he was instrumental in setting the organisation’s strategic vision to improve the mental health

John Dickinson-Lilley (He/Him)

John worked in communications and campaigns throughout his career of more than twenty years. When he worked at RNIB he was part of the team that won a huge victory in securing higher rate mobility component of DLA/PIP for blind people. John also successfully secured changes to the

The Rt Hon Sir Ben Bradshaw (he/him)

Ben Bradshaw is the former MP for Exeter and was a Minister in the Governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.  

Elected in 1997, he was the first openly gay person to be selected and elected to Parliament and won a bitter and high

Sean Latus (he/him)

Sean has recently stepped-down from Group CEO at Calisen, the UK’s largest owner and installer of smaller-scale energy transition infrastructure.  Sean and the senior team grew this business over the last decade to be a major UK player in helping consumers and businesses reduce demand for carbon-emitting energy

Clare Fielding (She/her)

Clare is a coach and lawyer.  Her coaching practice is oriented towards leaders, executives, professionals and their teams, for whom Clare acts as thinking partner - supporting, challenging and creating the right environment for deep, creative thinking.  

As a practicing lawyer, Clare specialised in planning law. She co-founded

Jake Graf (he/him)

Having grown up in the '80s under Section 28, Jake struggled from a very young age with his trans identity, desperately seeking representation and visibility that didn’t exist. When he was finally able to transition in his late twenties, Jake resolved to be the ‘possibility model’ that he

Catherine Riley (she/her)

Catherine has deep experience of managing high-level communications strategy for a range of organisations across the third sector, and of designing and implementing impactful campaigns. She most recently worked for the Royal Society of Literature, including as deputy director, where she coalesced stakeholders including RSL Fellows, members, partner

Debbie Doobay (she/her)

Deb has extensive experience in the role of COO, having held the role of COO across 4 related charities since 2005. While there, she has developed a longstanding stable and sustainable operating model, which has been focused on future proofing the organisation and building solid financial health, good

Steven Friel (He/him)

Steven Friel is a lawyer and CEO of Woodsford, a global collective redress business that seek to hold the world’s biggest companies to account when there have been catastrophic breakdowns in corporate governance.

Steven and his husband were one of the first gay couples to enter a civil partnership

Nicola Richards (she/her)

Nicola Richards is the former MP for West Bromwich East between 2019 and 2024, elected at the age of 24. During her time in Parliament, she served on the Women and Equalities Select Committee and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the House of Commons.

During her