Naomi Eisenstadt CB
Biography
Naomi Eisenstadt was appointed a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care on 13 January 2025. She is also a non-executive board member at the Department for Education, joining in March 2025.
Beginning her career in the voluntary sector, Naomi was chief executive of a child poverty charity before joining the Civil Service.
She became the first director of Sure Start in 1999. After 7 years in that post, she served for 3 years as director of the Social Exclusion Task Force.
She has served as an adviser on poverty and inequality to the First Minister of Scotland, has been a trustee on several charity boards, and served as a non-executive director of an NHS primary care trust. From 2020 to 2025 she served as chair of the Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board.