Wes Streeting is Chief Executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation – a national education charity that supports disadvantaged students from the further and adult education sectors to transform their lives through access to higher education and the graduate professions.

Wes is also currently working alongside Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert as deputy head of the Independent Taskforce on Student Finance Information to help potential students and their families to understand the true cost of higher education from 2012. He is a member of the Widening Access and Participation Strategic Advisory Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

A former National President of the National Union of Students, Wes has been involved in national debates about further and higher education for almost seven years. He is a former non-executive director of Endsleigh Insurance Services, UCAS, the Higher Education Academy and the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education.