DR DWAIN A NEIL
Dr Dwain Neil is Managing Director of Leriko Associates, a management consultancy which provides social research, project management, executive coaching, mentoring and motivation to a wide range of clients in the private, public and voluntary sectors.
With a wide experience of business management and recruitment, he was with Shell Chemicals International and Shell Services International for a number of years and was a regular speaker at diversity conferences focused on public and private sector issues in the United Kingdom and Holland.
A Reader on the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher & Further Education, Dwain is also a Trustee and Non-Executive Director on the Board of BTEG, a national training and enterprise charity; an Independent Public Appointments Assessor for the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments; a former Chair of the BBC’s London Regional Audience Council and a past member of the Prince’s Trust Committee for London.
His previous appointments included roles within the Home Office, the Department of Trade and Industry and membership of the Home Secretary’s Race Relations Forum and Race Equality Advisory Panel. He served as a Commissioner with the Commission for Racial Equality and was Chair of its Performance Audit and Scrutiny Group. Dwain was also one of three Commissioners leading the Household Cavalry formal investigation on the treatment of black and minority ethnic service men and women which culminated in the 1998 Agreement between the Home Office and Commission for Racial Equality.
A past Chairman and co-founder of the British Caribbean Junior Chamber of Commerce, Dwain was also a former Advisory Committee member of the Windsor Fellowship, and a past Chair of Governors at a Boys’ school.
Presently a Science and Engineering Ambassador with STEMNET, a Dti funded science network, he studied at the Victoria University of Manchester which merged with the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 2004 to become the University of Manchester. His first degree was a BSc (joint honours) in Physics and Chemistry, following which he achieved a PhD in Nuclear Chemistry.