Profile
Marcial Boo
Former Chief Executive at Equality and Human Rights Commission
About
Appointed on 20 September 2021
Marcial Boo was Chief Executive of the Commission from 20 September 2021 until 31 December 2023.
For six years, he was CEO at the MPs’ spending watchdog IPSA. During Covid, he led the UK’s Public Health Register, the sector’s professional regulator. He was previously a director at the National Audit Office and a senior civil servant at the Home Office and Department for Education, where he led work on crime reduction, counter-terrorism, community cohesion and adult basic skills.
He chairs the Institute of Regulation, is a fellow at the UCL Constitution Unit, a trustee of the non-partisan think tank Demos, sits on the policy advisory board of the University of Bath and is an advisory board member of Unchecked UK.
He started his career teaching adult literacy and has written three books: a children’s picture book, a guide to public sector management, and proposals to improve constitutional regulation.