Suresh Ariaratnam – Non Executive Director

Suresh Ariaratnam has worked in the book industry for over twenty three years, primarily as a literary agent, focussing on representing authors from Black and Asian communities. In addition to advising the multidisciplinary artists Jay Bernard and Johny Pitts, he remains involved in helping to ensure the equitable treatment of marginalised people in the creative economy through advocacy and activism.

As a non-executive director for NHS Dorset HealthCare and NHS Somerset, where he chairs the Primary Care Commissioning Committee, he is especially interested in the broader socio-economic determinants of health and in a holistic understanding of wellbeing which champions the interdependency between personal, societal, and planetary health.

Suresh also serves as, co-chair of Literature Works, a trustee of Trussell, and a director of Norland College, as a well as a member of the British Library Advisory Council. In 2022, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset in 2024.