Ben Summerskill

Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill <a href="/facts/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire/HlY9buuN">OBE</a> (born 6 October 1961) is chair of <a href="/facts/The_Silver_Line/lF7p27zb">The Silver Line</a> and director of the Criminal Justice Alliance, a consortium of 135 charities working across the GB criminal justice pathway. He was the chief executive of the <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">UK</a>-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality organisation <a href="/facts/Stonewall_(charity)/JAge8FhU">Stonewall</a>, the largest gay equality body in Europe, from 2003 to 2014. He has also worked as a <a href="/facts/Businessperson/Eys9TX5M">businessman</a> and <a href="/facts/Journalist/LADe3dzs">journalist</a>. Summerskill is an occasional contributor to <a href="/facts/The_Guardian/H84wwJYM">The Guardian</a>, <a href="/facts/The_Independent/g1P75Mfz">The Independent on Sunday</a>, <a href="/facts/The_Observer/mY7AHeEp">The Observer</a>, The Times, Time Out and other publications. In 2015 he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the <a href="/facts/British_LGBT_Awards/e6hT2eCN">British LGBT Awards</a> In 2017, he was appointed by the UK government to the council (Board) of ACAS, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He was first appointed a trustee of the Silver Line in 2017.

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Ben Summerskill