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PUBLIC SECTOR & THIRD SECTOR
POWERLIST 2010
SEYI OBAKIN TUNDE BANJOKO
Chief executive, Centrepoint Soho Ltd Founder & chief executive, Local Employment Access Projects (Leap)
NEW ENTRANT NEW ENTRANT
Since he joined Britain’s leading Under Banjoko’s stewardship, Leap
national homeless youth charity six has grown from one room, three
years ago, Obakin has signifi cantly desks and no computers 16 years
contributed to helping it reach ago into one of the most successful
out to more young people. He has and inspirational training and
been chief executive of Centrepoint employment organisations in
since January 2009. He had been the UK. It has now helped 4,000
acting chief executive since May people into work through teaching
2008 after joining the charity as and advice on attitudes and
director of fi nance in 2003. He was behaviour. Students of Leap have
promoted to chief operating offi cer a 70 per cent chance of gaining a
in 2006. As a chartered accountant, job, compared with a 30 per cent
Obakin has more than 20 years’ chance on the government’s New
post-qualifi cation experience in the Deal programme. The employment
private and public sectors. He has spent the past 13 years in the plan Banjoko designed has been taken up across Scotland. Leap
non-profi t sector having worked with two housing associations has been held up as an example of good practice in a number of
and a national charity covering fi nance, business systems and government publications. He was awarded an OBE in 2008 and
change management. He is continuously working with government featured in the Independent on Sunday’s 2009 Happy List, which
ministers to infl uence policy and has strong ties with the royal features people who make Britain a better and a happier place in
family through Prince William’s patronage of Centrepoint. which to live.
Infl uential because... he has enabled Infl uential because... the employment
Centrepoint to broaden and deepen the programmes he designs have had a
range of help it can give to young people. major impact across the UK.
JOE MONTGOMERY DOREEN LAWRENCE
Director general, Regions & Communities Social justice campaigner
Alongside fellow Powerlistee Sharon White, Montgomery is Britain’s Lawrence’s views are sought and
highest-ranking black civil servant. He has few peers in his fi eld of respected on social justice issues,
urban renewal and planning. He has been a director general in the 16 years after her son, Stephen, was
Department for Communities and Local Government since 2001, murdered by racist thugs. In Britain’s
when he joined as director general for neighbourhood most famous racial equality campaign,
renewal. Previously, he was executive director for the long fi ght by Doreen Lawrence
regeneration at Lewisham council in London. and her husband, Neville, for justice
He has extensive experience of grant-making for their son exposed the failings at
and in urban renewal from his work as the heart of the Metropolitan Police
assistant secretary to the Cadbury Trust, and culminated in the Macpherson
as leader of the government’s Inner City Report, which famously concluded
Task Force in London’s Deptford and as that the Met was “institutionally
chief executive of one of the “pathfi nder” racist” and transformed Britain’s race-
City Challenge urban regeneration relations landscape forever. Lawrence
companies. He serves as a non-executive wrote a book, And Still I Rise, and, with Stephen’s father, opened
director for the Department for Transport the £10m Stephen Lawrence Centre in 2007. In 2009 they launched
and as chairman of Inta, the international Architecture For Everyone, a £1m initiative from the Stephen Lawrence
urban development association. Charitable Trust – Stephen had wanted to be an architect. The trust
aims to encourage more young people from black and ethnic minorities
to become architects.
Infl uential because... he is
one of Britain’s foremost Infl uential because... she is a tireless,
authorities on urban inspirational force who forced the
regeneration. government to take racism seriously.
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