Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick

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Michael John Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrook, CBE was the head of Corporate Social Responsibility at the BBC, and is chairman of Crime Concern.

Hastings was previously a Downing Street Policy Unit advisor on race and urban policy, then a BBC and ITV journalist and presenter. In his BBC role, he is a board member of Comic Relief, BBC Children in Need, the BBC World Service Trust, the Fame Academy Bursary Fund and member of the BBC Appeals Advisory Committee and the BBC Environment Steering Group. He was formerly a Commissioner with the Commission for Racial Equality for nine years.

He was nominated as a life peer by the House of Lords Appointments Commission in 2005, and was created Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick, of Scarisbrook in the County of Lancashire [1]. He sits as a crossbencher.

In june 2006 Michael Hastings was appointed as head of Corporate Social Responsibility at KPMG.