Resilience through an LGBT Lens: Growing up as a Gay Man and Becoming a Community Leader

Served as a local authority Councillor at Westminster City Council since 2002 and today is Cabinet Member for Public Protection and Licensing, alongside his other role as LGBT Lead Member. He has been employed as a Communications and Marketing Director of national government agencies and the NHS, following an earlier career with the BBC. He is Director of Membership and Stakeholder Engagement at NHS Resolution which manages compensation claims made against the health service in England. He is also a charity trustee and a recognised LGBT role model; in 2018 he was included among a list of LGBT role models in the public sector published by The Financial Times. He is a Leadership Fellow at St George's House, Windsor, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.