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He is a Director of Gus John Consultancy Limited, the former Director of Education
and Leisure Services for the London Borough of Hackney, Chair of the Communities
Empowerment Network and Interim Chair of its campaigning arm, Parents and
Students Empowerment.
His extensive experience includes:
– advising the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, on ‘Serious Youth Violence in the
capital’
– advising the former British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, on race and social
inclusion;
– providing consultancy to the former Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, on deaths in
custody of African-Caribbean and Irish men;
– external evaluator for The Law Society on their performance in implementing
equality and human rights legislation and growing a culture of equity across the
solicitors’ profession;
– providing executive coaching to politicians, CEOs, the civil service and NGOs;
– developing and delivering education and, ‘future leaders’ programmes for young
people, personal development training for teachers and students and for young
offenders and lecturing in education policy;
– advising on corporate social responsibility, investment programmes, education,
health and community development to enable foreign inward investors to invest in
local people, deliver training and build capacity to reduce poverty, create wealth and
grow new markets;
– advising British, Caribbean and African governments on youth and criminal justice
to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) relating to schooling, education
and youth;
– conducting social audits, research and programme evaluation of schools, colleges,
universities, health authorities for central, regional and local government to assist
them in promoting equity and human rights and in managing change;
– conducting scoping studies and drawing up delivery plans for sustainable
development projects in Africa and the Caribbean;
– developing restorative justice models for use with young people involved in cyber
bullying, gangs and cults for schools and communities in Britain and Africa.
His other activities include:
– working with the African Union (African Diaspora Reunification Project) since
2006, including leading an education commission, attending the Inter-Ministerial
Conference in Johannesburg in November 2007 and Pretoria in 2011 to report on
issues arising from the work of the Commission. Involved since in advising member
states in Africa and the Caribbean (Cameroon, Somaliland, Lagos Sate Government,
Jamaica) in meeting the MDGs related to education and youth;
– membership of the African Union’s Technical Committee of Experts on economic,
political, social and cultural cooperation between African governments and civil
society organisations in the African Diaspora;
– being an acknowledged authority on equity and human rights, community
development, employment creation and social affairs among the African Diaspora
community in Britain and Europe;
– providing consultancy to the Methodist Church on implementing Equality & Human
Rights legislation and growing a culture of equity and inclusiveness across the
church.
Gus has also been a member of the following:
– Council of the Institute of Race Relations (1970-1974);
– British Council of Churches Community and Race Relations Unit (1973-80);
– Macdonald Inquiry into the murder of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah at Burnage High School,
Manchester, September 1986 and author of the Burnage Report: Murder in the
Playground;
– Churches Commission for Racial Justice (1996-2005);
– Member of Channel 4’s ‘Street Weapons Commission’.
