James Partridge is the Founder and Chief Executive of Changing Faces, the leading UK charity supporting and representing people with disfigurements, which is now a £1.5 million organisation with a 30 strong staff.
He launched the charity after the positive response to his book “Changing Faces: the Challenge of Facial Disfigurement”. He writes and presents widely on disfigurement, disability, inclusion and social entrepreneurship in the UK and internationally. In November 2009, he was guest newsreader for a week on national TV (Channel 5 News), an appearance designed to foster acceptance and inclusion of people with disfigurements in society.
Married with three ‘grown up’ children, he lives in Guernsey and London. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Birthday Honours in June 2002 for services to disabled people. He iwas appointed 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 was winner of Britain’s Most Admired Charity Chief Executive for 2010 and the Beacon Prize for Leadership in 2010.