Will Snell is Chief Executive of the Fairness Foundation. He is a non-profit entrepreneur with experience across a range of sectors, both in the UK and overseas, who is now focused on UK public policy related to inequality.
After founding an educational charity at university, he spent several years on the UK government’s civil service fast stream programme at the Department of Health and then the Department for International Development, working on a range of issues including emergency planning, counter-terrorism and Iraq reconstruction, before leaving to set up a skills mentoring programme for entrepreneurs in Kenya. He then worked in senior roles for a global health NGO and a global tax reform think tank before setting up Tax Justice UK in 2017.
After a stint as interim Chief Operating Officer at Global Witness, a human rights and climate NGO, Will set up the Fairness Foundation in collaboration with Julian Richer in 2021, becoming its founding Chief Executive.
At the Fairness Foundation, Will leads a small team, and works with a broad range of partners and experts, to persuade politicians to treat inequality in the UK as a policy priority, making the moral, political and policy arguments for action to tackle inequality in all its forms.
Will was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in October 2023.
