Ben Summerskill

Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill is chair of The Silver Line 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 UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality organisation Stonewall, the largest gay equality body in Europe, from 2003 to 2014. He has also worked as a businessman and journalist. Summerskill is an occasional contributor to The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Times, Time Out and other publications. In 2015 he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British LGBT Awards 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.

6 October 1961

Born on the same birth date (6 October 1961): Miyuki Matsuda • Paul Sansome

Born on the same birth day (6 October): Adam Gemili • Akuila Uate • Brian Higgins • Chiang Wei-kuo • Goh Keng Swee • Han Sun-hwa • Henri Christophe • Jacqueline Obradors • Janet Gaynor • Jarrod Moseley • Jazz Jennings • Kasper Dolberg • Les Moonves • Levon Aronian • Mark Schwarzer • Melvyn Bragg • Merzak Allouache • Mohamed Kallon • Peg O'Connor • Rubén Sierra • Shana Alexander • Takis Gonias • Turki bin Sultan Al Saud

Born in the same month (October 1961): Andoni Zubizarreta • Bruce Castor • Chad Smith • Doc Rivers • Dylan McDermott • Gerald Malloy • Kate Campbell • Kate Mosse • Ludger Stühlmeyer • Michie Tomizawa • Miyuki Matsuda • Rachel de Thame • Randy Jackson (Jacksons singer) • Simon Burke • Takaaki Ishibashi