Dr Suzy Walton
Biography
Chartered director, occupational psychologist and scientist, Suzy is a former Senior Civil Servant from the Cabinet Office and MoD. She was awarded a PhD for her work on military suicide. She is a Vice-President of Combat Stress. For government she is a disciplinary panel member for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office, a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee and the Independent Reconfiguration Panel. Suzy has sat on multiple boards including the Institute of Directors, the global Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, and Birmingham Children’s Hospital. She is also the 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