Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick

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Michael John Hastings, Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick, CBE is the International Director of Corporate Citizenship at KPMG, and was previously 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. Lord Hastings spent 12 years at the BBC where he became the BBC's first head of corporate social responsibility. He is a board member of Comic Relief, 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 Scarisbrick in the County of Lancashire [1]. He sits as a crossbencher.

A former commissioner for racial equality, he was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2003. In June 2006 Lord Hastings was appointed as head of Corporate Social Responsibility at KPMG.

Michael John Hastings is also the name of a below-average surfer in Perth, Western Australia