Key people to contact
- To invite a representative from The Equality Trust to speak at your event please contact laura.vanderbloemen@equalitytrust.org.uk
- For local group & supporter enquiries please contact bill.kerry@equalitytrust.org.uk
Kathryn Busby
Co-director
kathryn.busby@equalitytrust.org.uk
Kathryn joined the Trust in February 2009, shortly before it launched, and works full-time in the London office. Kathryn has an LLM in Human Rights & Civil Liberties and ten years' experience of working for charities and campaigning organisations; these include Shelter, the Forgiveness Project and the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). She is now CAAT's treasurer and a member of their Steering Committee.
Bill Kerry
Co-director
bill.kerry@equalitytrust.org.uk
Bill is a co-founder of The Equality Trust and works for the Trust part-time, looking after our network of supporters and autonomous local groups. Bill has written and blogged for various organisations including Oxfam and the pressure group Compass. Prior to the launch of the Trust, Bill worked as a Company Secretary across the private, charitable and social enterprise sectors.
Héctor Elías Gutiérrez Rufrancos
Research Fellow
hector.rufrancos@equalitytrust.org.uk
Hector is an economist; he has an MSc in Development Economics and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Sussex. His previous research has mainly focussed on inequality, including studying wage inequality across different sectors of the Mexican labour market. Hector worked full-time for one year in our London office and now works freelance for the Trust.
Richard Wilkinson
Co-director
richard.wilkinson@equalitytrust.org.uk
Richard has played a formative role in international research on the social determinants of health and on the societal effects of income inequality. He studied economic history at LSE before training in epidemiology. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, Honorary Professor at UCL and a Visiting Professor at the University of York. Richard co-wrote The Spirit Level with Kate Pickett which won the 2011 Political Studies Association Publication of the Year Award and the 2010 Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize. Richard is also a co-founder of The Equality Trust.
Steering group
The Equality Trust has seven co-directors, holding legal and strategic responsibility for the Trust's work. They are:
- Sean Baine (non-executive) - Sean is co-chair of the London Equality Group.
- Kathryn Busby - see above
- Bill Kerry - see above
- Judith Moran (non-executive) - Judith is director of Quaker Social Action, an east London charity which supports people on a low income to find solutions to the issues affecting their lives.
- Kate Pickett (non-executive) - Kate is co-founder of The Equality Trust, co-author of The Spirit Level, Professor at the University of York, a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist and fellow of the RSA.
- Hetan Shah (non-executive) - Hetan is executive director of the Royal Statistical Society, a professional society devoted to the interests of statistics and statisticians.
- Richard Wilkinson - see above
