Tony Sewell
The Lord Sewell of Sanderstead | |
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Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 16 December 2022 Life peerage | |
| Chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities | |
| In office July 2020 – 28 April 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Cleveland Anthony Sewell 6 August 1959 Brixton, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
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| Occupation | Educational consultant |
Cleveland Anthony Sewell, Baron Sewell of Sanderstead, CBE (born 6 August 1959) is a British educational consultant, founder, and chair of the educational charity Generating Genius. In July 2020, Sewell was appointed chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, tasked with investigating race disparity in the UK. He also sits as a life peer in the House of Lords and has been described as an admirer of the Black conservative scholar Thomas Sowell.