Leonard Stall

Leonard Stall (born in London on 8 February 1961) is a media entrepreneur and author, very active in the charity and philanthropy sectors.

Stall graduated from The University of Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1982 and was a Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge (1993).

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (DUniv) from The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 2019.

Stall founded Medialab in 1992, where he was responsible for launching and selling a portfolio of magazine and newspaper titles including The Sussex and South Coast edition of The Metro daily newspaper, The Source, Retail Express and others. During his time with Medialab, he also launched an online portal for retailers, thelocalshop.com and was a presenter on a national radio show called Early Edition, initially on the GWR network, and then broadcast at breakfast-time on Talk Radio.

In 2004, he was appointed as Chairman of the Sussex branch of the Institute of Directors and was also on the SE Regional Committee. He remained in this role until 2007.

In 2008, he joined Touchline as its Group CEO and Editor-in-Chief.

From 2010-2017, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Vision magazine.

He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the book How to do Good – Essays on Building a Better World. It was featured in the Dubai Festival of Literature, the York Festival of Ideas and at The University of Birmingham, Stockholm University, City Hall London, The Lincoln Center New York City, and in Oslo, Brussels, The Hague and Paris in 2017.

In 2017, he was appointed as the Executive Chairman of Touchline.

In addition to his roles as both the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Philanthropy Age, a grantee project of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the How to do Good book and speaker tour, Stall has been leading the creation of an independent International Standard for the Charity Sector, now work in progress under the auspices of British Standards Institution (BSI). BSI will publish this international Code of Practice (as a Publicly Available Specification or PAS, numbered 48626) in early 2020. It is co-sponsored by Philanthropy Age and Insaan Group, of which he is also a Board Member. Stall sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of international charity sector title, Alliance magazine, for philanthropy and social investment worldwide, and is an Advisory Board Member for Rosalynn Carter’s Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism in UAE..

He is a consultant to the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

Stall is also working alongside Charity Futures, the UK third sector think-tank and New College, Oxford University to help launch the forthcoming Oxford Institute of Charity. This is scheduled to open in 2022 in a custom-built tower housed in the New College Quad.

• Chairman of Trustees of UK publishing organisation, ACE
• Fellow Institute of Directors
• Memberships: MCC, Reform Club, Ivy Club
• Chairman of the Sussex branch of the Institute of Directors,member SE Regional Committee 2004-2007
• Member of Court University of Sussex 2004-2007
• Steering Committee for the Theatre Royal Brighton's 200th Birthday 2007
• Trustee Martlets Hospice, Brighton 2005-2007