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Ben Lindsay OBE is the founder and CEO of award-winning charity Power the Fight, where he brings strategic leadership to the issue of violence affecting young people in the UK, working across the sector and advising the Mayor of London and a wide range of institutions. Before this, he has held roles in the charity sector, education, local authorities and church leadership.
He is recognised as a social entrepreneur, winning the KPMG Black Entrepreneurs Award in 2024. Ben is a speaker, author of a best-selling book, We Need To Talk About Race: Understanding theBlack Experience in White Majority Churches, and a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Durham University. He was awarded an OBE in 2023 for services to communities in SE London.
His latest book, We Need to Talk… About Race: Christian Faith and Racial Justice – A Young Person’s Guide is released on June 20, 2025.