Born in Brixton, Lord Tony Sewell CBE has been a journalist, teacher and education expert. He was part of the team responsible for driving the transformation of Hackney's education outcomes in the early 2000s, and his charity Generating Genius has helped hundreds of young black people into STEM in business and academia. He was recently chair of the UK's government's Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, the recommendations which are now the foundations of the government's policy on tackling racial inequalities. He was awarded a CBE for his work on education and was elevated to the House of Lords in 2022. That same year he began his latest project, a farming enterprise in Jamaica.