Robin Stephenson is an independent governance, corporate and legal affairs consultant undertaking projects for a variety of organisations within the charitable and public sector.

In his role he writes articles for a variety of governance journals, and is actively involved as a member of the Nursing & Midwifery Council fitness to practice panels (having previously served on its governance committee), serving as the clerk to a dental professional review committee and vice chair and  trustee of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust.

He has previously been a member of the European Foundation Centre European Union Committee, the Charity Law Association and has also served on the executive council of the Association of Charitable Foundations, been a non-executive director of an NHS Trust and served for ten years as vice chair of a state secondary school governing body.

He was previously director of corporate affairs ans secretary at the Health Foundation from 1998 - 2007.