Blondel Cluff CBE
Biography
Blondel Cluff is a co-opted member of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. She will attend meetings relevant to her work on the Windrush Working Group.
Blondel is a solicitor of over 37 years standing and a Fellow of Kings College, London where she was a member of the college council for several years, focusing on institutional change. Blondel has held various public appointments for over twenty years, addressing communities, education, health and heritage. The former head of legal at Lazard Brothers, has recently retired as a diplomat, having represented the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, supporting the territory through Hurricane Irma, constitutional reform and in its preparations for Brexit as a border nation of the EU.
The daughter of Windrushers from Anguilla, Blondel is CEO of the West India Committee, a UK registered charity and Royal Charter institution that is custodian of a UNESCO inscribed library and collection on the Caribbean and a Consulting NGO of UNESCO on small island developing nations and heritage. She is also Chair of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, London and South Committee and a member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee. An author of various works on the Caribbean, Blondel regularly lectures on heritage. In 2018 she received a CBE for services to numismatic design and for her work with the Caribbean community in the UK and abroad.