Rob Neil OBE was elected Chair of the Civil Service Race Forum – an umbrella network of BAME Staff Networks – in September 2016, ending his tenure at CSRF in 2018 and continues to support the CSRF as an advisor. Rob chaired the MoJ’s Diverse Leaders Taskforce in support of the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy until March 2019 and after 35 years with the MoJ departed in April 2019 to support the Department for Education [DfE] with Embedding Culture Change.

Rob was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list for ‘Services to Race Equality in the workplace and the community’ and was also the inaugural winner of Investing in Ethnicity’s Workplace Hero Award in Nov 2018.

Rob departed the public sector to launch his own consultancy Krystal Alliance supporting organisations across all sectors to be more inclusive. In October 2021 Rob was included in HR Magazine’s list of fifty ‘Most Influential Thinkers’.

Rob Neil OBE was elected Chair of the Civil Service Race Forum – an umbrella network of BAME Staff Networks – in September 2016, ending his tenure at CSRF in 2018 and continues to support the CSRF as an advisor. Rob chaired the MoJ’s Diverse Leaders Taskforce in support of the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy until March 2019 and after 35 years with the MoJ departed in April 2019 to support the Department for Education [DfE] with Embedding Culture Change.

Rob was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list for ‘Services to Race Equality in the workplace and the community’ and was also the inaugural winner of Investing in Ethnicity’s Workplace Hero Award in Nov 2018.

Rob departed the public sector to launch his own consultancy Krystal Alliance supporting organisations across all sectors to be more inclusive. In October 2021 Rob was included in HR Magazine’s list of fifty ‘Most Influential Thinkers’.