Speaker Profile

Professor Kay Hampton Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality
Professor Kay Hampton became chair of the Commission for Racial Equality on 1 December 2006. She took over from Trevor Phillips, who is now chair of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR). Previously, Kay had served the CRE as deputy chair, and its commissioner for Scotland. Kay is currently a lecturer in criminology at Glasgow Caledonian University. As a former research fellow and director of the Scottish Ethnic Minorities Research Unit between 1995 and 2000, she researched and published widely on racism, ethnicity and discrimination. Kay has also been employed by University of Durban-Westville, South Africa (1978-1989) and Durban City Council, Strategic Planning Department (1990-1993). Kay was closely associated with the voluntary sector in South Africa. Since her arrival in Scotland in 1994, she has served on several management committees, trusts and boards that work in the field of inequality and disadvantage, including the Community Fund, for whom she was board member and Chair between 1998 and 2003, and the Wellcome Trust Society Awards [2001-2003). She is also Trustee of the Scottish Refugee Council