Dr James Partridge (OBE)
Changing Faces – Chief Executive
James Partridge is the Founder and Chief Executive of Changing Faces, the leading UK charity supporting and representing people with disfigurements.
Before setting up Changing Faces in 1992, James worked in public health in the NHS in the ‘70s, established a dairy farming business and taught A Level Economics in Guernsey in the ‘80s. He now writes and presents widely on disfigurement, disability and inclusion themes in the UK and internationally.
He is a long-time Associate of the Employers’ Forum on Disability and holds various unpaid posts such as: Non-Executive Member of the Government Office for London (GOL)’s Board and Chair of GOL’s Equality Committee, member of TreeHouse’s Development and Public Affairs Committee and of the Department of Health’s National Burn Care Group and Chair of the Department for Work and Pensions’ Employer Engagement Steering Group.
James was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Birthday Honours in June 2002 for services to disabled people. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and has Honorary Doctorates from the both of the Universities in Bristol, his birthplace.
He is a long-
James was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Birthday Honours in June 2002 for services to disabled people. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and has Honorary Doctorates from the both of the Universities in Bristol, his birthplace.