Dr Suzy Walton

HEFCE Board member
Biography

Suzy Walton is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a Chartered Director (the UK’s highest-level qualification in corporate governance). She has a portfolio of board roles and over a decade’s experience in central government.

Suzy is Deputy Chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), the University of Westminster and the Internet Watch Foundation which regulates the internet against some aspects of criminality. She is also on the board of the veterans' mental health charity Combat Stress, and sits on several government committees including the Ethics Group of the National DNA Database (Home Office) and the National Specialist Commissioning Group (Department of Health). Previously she was on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’s Science Advisory Council.

Suzy has over a decade’s experience as a senior civil servant and has served in the Cabinet Office, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and the Ministry of Defence (MoD). She was awarded a PhD for her research in the MoD into military suicide.

Suzy’s earlier career was as a producer, editor and presenter for Sky News, LBC Radio and the BBC. She also had three years on the West End stage. Suzy has five children

Date appointed to the Board: 1 December 2012