Suki Binjal is a highly experienced public sector solicitor providing legal and strategic advice to local authorities and other public bodies.
Suki is a consultant and the director of Belvedere Legal Services.
Suki has recently completed an assignment with the London Borough of Lewisham as the director of legal, corporate governance and HR.
Previous roles have included a directorship with the Commission for Racial Equality.
Suki was also a founder member of a women’s refuge and chaired the Portsmouth Equalities Forum, as well as holding various non-executive director roles.
Suki was the president of Lawyers in Local Government from 2017 to 2019, a national membership body representing public sector lawyers.
They also routinely speaks at events and training sessions.
Suki’s focus is to champion the role of lawyers in the public sector and to promote positive engagement across the broad spectrums of local authority governance and leadership.
They was also an external adviser on the policy committee with the Solicitors Regulation Authority and is currently the chair of the Fighting Fraud and Corruption Locally Board.
Suki is also an advisory board member of Thomson Reuters’ Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law programme.
