Herman George Ouseley, Baron Ouseley (born 24 March 1945) is a British parliamentarian, who has run public authorities, including local councils and is an adviser and reviewer of public services organisations. Lord Ouseley holds an expertise in equality and diverity matters and is the Chairperson of several charitable organisations as well as being a Patron for dozens of organisations. He has been in the forefront of challenging institutional racism in organisations and is a tireless advocate on behalf of individuals from disadvantaged and deprived backgrounds.
Ouseley was educated at the William Penn School in South London and Catford College, where he received a Diploma in municipal administration.
He was a local government officer between 1963–1993, working at Chief Officer level; was chair and chief executive in the Commission for Racial Equality from 1993 to 2000. Since 1996 he has been a director of Brookmight Security and from 2000, of Focus Consultancy Ltd. He was the Managing Director of Different Realities Partnership Ltd between 2000–2005 and, since then, has been operating as a self-employed management consultant undertaking reviews of organisations' performance and assignments in pursuit of equality and diversity outcomes.
Ouseley has twelve honorary degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh, Sheffield Hallam, Bradford, Leicester, Leeds Met., Warwick, Oxford Brookes, Greenwich, Southbank, London Metropolitan, North East London and Brighton. He was knighted in 1997 for his services to local government and community relations, and was made a life peer as Baron Ouseley, of Peckham Rye in the London Borough of Southwark on 26 June 2001. He was also included in the 100 Great Black Britons.
In 1993, he set up the project to tackle racism in football and is the Chairperson of Kick It Out, the internationally acclaimed campaign to make football free from discrimination and abuse and to be more inclusive of people of all backgrounds.[1][2]