Wednesday 1 February 2017
07:45
Confronting the Crisis in Mental Health
Dennis Stevenson, Founder, and Cynthia Joyce, CEO, of MQ: Transforming Mental Health
Mental health problems have reached epidemic proportions in the UK and globally, especially amongst young people. Many of us have direct experience of this problem, though not all are as willing to discuss it – or do something about it – as Dennis (Lord) Stevenson who openly admitted 20 years ago that he suffers from episodic clinical depression.
At this event we’ll hear from Dennis about his experience and motivation also from Cynthia Joyce, CEO of MQ: Transforming Mental Health, the mental health research foundation that Dennis founded to understand, treat and ultimately prevent mental health problems, especially amongst the young.
Dennis has divided his life 50/50 between not-for-profit and for profit – where his main activity has been starting new businesses (although he’s also chaired large companies such as GPA, Pearson and HBOS). On the not-for-profit side, he was Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery for ten years when Tate Modern was built, Chairman of the largest youth organisation in the UK, more recently Chairman of Inter Mediate, which focuses on negotiation and mediation in the most difficult circumstances, and the founder of MQ.
Dennis has divided his life 50/50 between not-for-profit and for profit – where his main activity has been starting new businesses (although he’s also chaired large companies such as GPA, Pearson and HBOS). On the not-for-profit side, he was Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery for ten years when Tate Modern was built, Chairman of the largest youth organisation in the UK, more recently Chairman of Inter Mediate, which focuses on negotiation and mediation in the most difficult circumstances, and the founder of MQ.
