Derek A Bardowell is a writer, philanthropy strategist and executive coach. His first book, the sports memoir No Win Race, was a Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the Year. His follow-up book, Giving Back: How To Do Good, Better, reimagines philanthropy through a reparative lens, while his latest, Fire Inna Dancehall, explores dancehall’s influence on modern pop culture. Derek’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The Times, and British GQ.

In philanthropy, Derek is a leading voice in reparative justice giving. He is the Chair of the Tudor Trust and a former CEO of Ten Years’ Time, the UK’s first racial justice philanthropy advisory firm. Derek also helped to establish the Church Commissioners for England’s £100m Fund for Healing, Repair and Justice and supported the establishment of the Baobab Foundation and Phoenix Way Partnership.

As a coach and consultant, Derek has worked with over 150 civil society leaders and writers. Previously a Director of Learning at the Stephen Lawrence Trust and Trustee of Sir Lewis Hamilton’s Mission 44, Derek is a Churchill Fellow.