Place2Be's Wellbeing in Schools Awards - Meet the judges

We’ve brought together an incredible judging panel and we're so grateful to them all for giving their time to judge our Awards.

Our judges come from a diverse range of backgrounds, including:

You can find a full list of our judges and what they do below.

Judges

Professor Alka Ahuja MBE - Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Lucy Alexander - NHS Nurse / Mental Health Campaigner / Place2Be Ambassador

Lynley Ashby - Managing Director, Citi bank

Kate Bailey - Director of Policy & Business Development, Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM)

Professor Robin Banerjee - Head of the School of Psychology, University of Sussex / Member of Place2Be's Research Advisory Group (RAG)

Jo Bradshaw - Outdoor Instructor / Expedition Leader / Public Speaker

James Cochrane CBE - Pharmaceutical Industry

Sophie Dahl - Writer / Place2Be Ambassador

HHJ Anuja Dhir QC - Circuit Judge, Old Bailey

Fiona Fearon - Policy and Projects Manager, National Governance Association

Professor Tamsin Ford CBE - Head of Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge and Place2Be Research Chair

Dr Alex George - A&E doctor / bestselling author / UK Youth Mental Health Ambassador for Department for Education

Jamie Glynn - Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Clive Lewis - Chairman, LFH Holdings, Blue Coast Capital, and River Island Holdings Ltd

Abbey Mills - Community fundraiser

Dr Radha Modgil - GP / Broadcaster / Author

Elona Mortimer-Zhika - Chief Executive Officer, Iris Software Group

Dr Habib Naqvi MBE - Director of the NHS Race and Health Observatory

Lord Gus O'Donnell - Former British senior civil servant / Economist

Dame Alison Peacock DBE - Chief Executive Officer, The Chartered College of Teaching

Lisa Prime - Children and Young People Manager, BAFTA

Chris Reay - Teaching Assistant

Mathew Stachan - IT Analyst, The Phoenix Group / Place2Be Advocate

Professor Russell Viner CBE - Professor of Adolescent Health, UCL Great Ormond St. Institute of Child Health in London

David Weaver MBE - President, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

Michelle West - Founder / Trustee, Sam West Foundation