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Hall of Fame

Ken Olisa
Baroness
Doreen Lawrence
Lord Lieutenant,
Greater London; Founder and
Chair, Restoration Partners Labour Peer, Justice campaigner

Do well. The thing is, I could tell
Do good you what happened
each and every year
since Stephen died, but
in a way it is like it was
yesterday. And the battle
itself is constant

hen Ken, the first black Lord Lieutenant or more than 20 years, since the brutal racist
of Greater London, gives a motivational murder of her son Stephen, Baroness Doreen
Wpresentation to young people, he is bound to FLawrence has campaigned tirelessly for police
mention his coat of arms. His motivation is not to describe reform and justice.
the complicated symbolism of the shield highlighting Her work has resulted in laws being changed, an
his many associations, from family, to Cambridge, to his overhaul of police methods and a shift in public attitudes.
vegetarianism. Instead it is the motto to which he always She set up the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust to
draws his youthful audience’s attention. It’s simple, and promote a positive community legacy in her son’s name,
it’s powerful – ‘Do well. Do good.’ and in 2003 she was awarded an OBE for services to
Ken is the founder and chairman of Restoration community relations. In 2013, Doreen was made a Labour
Partners, the boutique technology merchant bank. He is Life Peer.
a non-executive director at Thomson Reuters and Deputy In 2016, she was inaugurated and officially welcomed
Chairman of The Institute of Directors as well as being one as the Chancellor of De Montfort University in Leicester.
of the nicest guys you could meet. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the
University of Westminster in the same year.

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