Suzy Walton

Professional expertise

Suzy is a Chartered Director, Chartered Scientist and Chartered Occupational Psychologist. She has a portfolio of board roles and over a decade’s experience in central government.  She specialises in coaching individuals and boards to maintain strategic focus.

Experience

Suzy works as a non executive director on the boards of organisations across many sectors including Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; the University of Westminster; the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners; the Internet Watch Foundation and Combat Stress. She also sits on various government committees including the National DNA Database Ethics Group and the National Specialist Services Commissioning group which oversees a budget of c£3.2 billion for treatment for rare and specialist conditions.

From 2000-2004 Suzy led strategic futures work in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.

More recently she served in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and from 1996-2000 she served as a military psychologist in the Ministry of Defence. She has also completed a 6-year term as a lay member for the Bar Council’s disciplinary committees. As an academic, Suzy has published over twenty papers mainly on social policy and mental health.

Suzy’s early career was a producer, editor and presenter for Sky News, LBC Radio and the BBC. She also had a three year stint playing the juvenile lead in the West End hit Children of a Lesser God. Her website is www.suzywalton.com. Suzy has 4 children ranging from age 3-20 years.

Education and qualifications

Suzy holds a first class honours BSc degree, an MSc and a PhD in applied psychology.  As well as being chartered in three professions she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a fellow of the RSA and a member of Equity.