Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick

Lord Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick, CBE (born 29 January 1958) is KPMG International’s Global Head of Corporate Citizenship. He was previously the BBC's Head of Public Affairs and then the first Head of Corporate Responsibility (2003-2006). He is the second Chancellor of Regent’s University London. He was installed on 21 February 2017.

Hastings began his career as a teacher at Greenway Secondary school in Uxbridge (now Uxbridge High School, London) and then moved into Government service in 1986 supporting policy initiatives to bring employment and development to Britain’s inner cities. In 1990 he moved to work at TVAM on education programming and then GMTV as Chief Political Correspondent and then the BBC in 1994 as a presenter of the weekly Around Westminster programme before joining the BBC Corporate Affairs division in 1996.

Hastings is a trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation and previously served for 9 years on the Board for Responsible and Sustainable Business at British Telecom (BT). He first represented KPMG International on the Global Corporate Citizenship Committee of the World Economic Forum (2008-2010) and was a Board Director of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) (2010-2012). In 2009 he became a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Diversity and Talent; in 2010 he served on the 'Global Agenda Council on the Next Generation'; and in 2011 he became a member of the World Economic Forum's 'Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business'. From 2012-2014 he led the WEF Agenda Council - The Future of Civil Society, as Vice Chairman.

In January 2002, Hastings was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in recognition of his services to crime reduction, including 15 years as Chairman of Crime Concern and 21 as a Trustee. He led the merger of Crime Concern with the Rainer Foundation to create Catch 22. He served on the Commission for Racial Equality for nine years as a Commissioner (1993-2001). He is listed as one of the 100 most influential black people in Britain and No.6 on the 2016 list of 100 Black British Business Leaders.

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