Wilf Stevenson

Wilf Stevenson is a former special adviser to the Labour Party who is now a Labour frontbench spokesperson for Department for Media, Culture and Sport, higher education and trade matters in the House of Lords. He is also a Whip for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. Wilf also joined the Lords as a life Peer in 2010.

Prior to being appointed to the Lords, Wilf spent two years as a special adviser to the Prime Minister, working mainly on constitutional issues in the Policy Unit, 10 Downing Street and nearly 11 years as the director of the Smith Institute (an independent think tank). Before establishing the Smith Institute, Wilf Stevenson was director of the British Film Institute (1987-97), joining the BFI from what is now Edinburgh Napier University.