NATHAN JOHN
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Before founding Y-E-L, Nathan worked as an Accountant for various leading financial institutions such as Bank One, Ernst & Young LLP, Citigroup and RBS.
Since 2007 he has been interviewed over 150 times on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News, LBC, The Guardian plus more in relation to challenges facing young people and the wider community.
Nathan was appointed as the Community Cohesion Adviser to the Mayor of Lewisham, Sir Steve Bullock in May 2010. He was an Adviser to the Stephen Lawrence Review, which was chaired by Dr Richard Stone and was also a member of the NPIA’s Stop and Search Community Panel and the Lewisham Youth Task Force.
In May 2011 he attended a reception at Buckingham Palace after receiving an invitation from The Queen. March 2011 saw him become a winner of a Barclays Chairman’s Award as Individual Achievement of the Year – UK. He was included in The Voice newspaper’s top 20 Movers and Shakers of 2009 along with President Barack Obama, Baroness Scotland, Lewis Hamilton, Levi Roots plus more. He has been awarded with a Black Youth Achievements Award and also awarded by the London Youth Corporation for being a Guest Speaker at the first 10/10 Leadership Summit held in Park Lane.
