Dr Suzy Walton
Biography
Suzy Walton is a chartered director, occupational psychologist and scientist. As a former senior civil servant, she has worked in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence. She was awarded a PhD for research into military suicide. Suzy is a Vice-President of Combat Stress, a charity for veterans’ mental health. She is also a disciplinary panel member of the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (Ministry of Justice) and a member of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (Department of Health).
Suzy has sat on multiple boards including the Institute of Directors, the global Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, and Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
Suzy has been a non-executive director/lay member on many government committees including the State Honours Committee (Cabinet Office), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (BEIS), the Ethics Group of the National DNA Database (Home Office), the Science Advisory Council (Defra) and the National Specialist Commissioning Group (Department of Health).
She is also a former Vice President of the Royal Society of Medicine and former Deputy Chair of the Royal Society of Arts, the Internet Watch Foundation and the University of Westminster.
Suzy is a mother of seven and had earlier careers as a West End actress and a broadcast journalist with Sky News and LBC Radio.
Committee member
Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) members are appointed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to:
- give advice on social security issues as it sees fit
- consider and report on social security regulations that have been referred to it
- advise on matters referred to it by the Secretary of State or the Northern Ireland department responsible for social security
- scrutinise the products produced by the Department for Work and Pensions