Sukhvinder Kaur-Stubbs is chief operating officer of Britain's Personal Best, the fundraising challenge event scheduled for 3, 4 and 5 October 2013 and funded with £1m from the Big Lottery Fund.

Kaur-Stubbs was the last chair of Volunteering England beiofre its merger with NCVO. She is a director of management consultancy Engage.

Previously she was the chief executive of the Barrow Cadbury Trust and before that CEO of the Runnymede Trust where she launched a report on Islamophobia that led to a change in UK and international legislation.

She was twice elected chair of the European Union funded equality network ENAR which was responsible for securing the equal treatment directives and in 2001 represented the UK at the UN World Conference in 2001.

Her work with disadvantaged people began at the Community Development Foundation and English Partnerships where she established major programmes based on the concept of community investment.

She has served on numerous public and private boards including Severn Trent Water, the government's Better Regulation Taskforce and the Development Corporation.