Philanthropy leader, campaigner and experienced non-executive director
Martyn Evans is a strategic leader and experienced policy maker with wide-ranging executive and non-executive experience in the voluntary and public sectors. He is an influencer and advocate for evidence-based, innovative public policy and practice across the UK.
Profile
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Martyn was the CEO of the Carnegie UK Trust for a decade. He has been credited with making the Carnegie UK Trust “one of the most influential philanthropic organisations in the UK today”. Under his leadership the Trust has developed into a highly respected voice across a range of major public policy issues. He has ensured the Trust developed a strong and effective ‘five-nations’ outlook, working across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. He was the first Chair of the Alex Ferry Foundation and guided it through its initial start up phase and onto research and community grant making.
He is an international speaker with close ties to philanthropic Foundations in the USA and Europe.
He has chaired successful and influential commissions and enquiries across the UK and Ireland in fields as diverse as welfare reform, library strategy, fairness, legal aid, citizenship and wellbeing.
Martyn has led campaigning charities, consumer research public bodies, health quality regulator and policing oversight of the second largest police force in the UK. He was a visiting Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde.
Current roles
- Board Scottish Police Authority (SPA)
- Chair Policing Performance Committee (SPA)
- Chair CAM Oversight Group (SPA)
- Member Independent Advisory Group on Police Scotland's use of COVID-19 temporary powers
- Board IPPR Scotland
- Fellow Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
- Honorary Fellow of the Society of Occupational Medicine (HmSOM)
