Simon Fanshawe OBE
Partner
Diversity by Design
Simon Fanshawe OBE is an entrepreneur, non-exec director, broadcaster, writer and campaigner. He is a co founder and partner in his main business, astar-fanshawe , a ground breaking equality, diversity and organizational transformation consultancy (www.astar-fanshawe.co.uk) which has recently re-branded to Diversity by Design (www.diversitybydesign.co.uk).
Between 2007 – 2013 he was chairman of the University of Sussex governing Council. He is currently on the Boards of Brighton Festival and Dome, Housing and Care 21 and has recently been made a Trustee of The Museum of London.
He was a co-founder of one of the most successful lobby and campaign groups in recent times, the lesbian and gay equality organisation Stonewall. He is now a co-founder of the Kaleidoscope Trust, supporting lgbt activists abroad.
As a broadcaster he has hosted many programmes on TV and Radio and appeared on Any Questions, Any Answers, Today and Loose Ends. He has written regularly on politics, social policy and on the arts for The Sunday Times Culture Section and The Guardian, The Observer and the Telegraph Saturday magazine. He won the 1989 Perrier Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 2005 he published THE DONE THING a best selling book on manners and behaviour for Random House. He was awarded the OBE in the New Years Honours list 2013 for services to Higher Education. And he was made an Honorary Doctor of the University of Sussex for services to diversity and human rights in 2013.
