Ruth Hunt, Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green
The Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green | |
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Hunt in 2022 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 28 October 2019 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ruth Elizabeth Hunt 12 March 1980 Cardiff, Wales |
| Political party | None (crossbencher) |
| Domestic partner | Caroline Ellis |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Former Chief Executive of Stonewall |
Ruth Elizabeth Hunt, Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green (born 12 March 1980) is a Welsh administrator who was Chief Executive of UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality charity Stonewall, the largest LGBTQ equality body in Europe, from 2014 until her resignation in 2019.
Hunt was nominated for a life peerage and Crossbench member of the House of Lords in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. She was created Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, of Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on 16 October 2019.
She was formerly President of the Oxford University Student Union.