Brian Dow is Chief Executive of Mental Health UK, a coalition of four mental health charities across the UK. He is also Deputy Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness.

Brian is a member of the NHS Assembly which advises the board of NHS England on delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan and is also an independent member of the LLoyds of London ESG committee. He also represents Rethink Mental Illness on the Richmond Group, a collaboration of leading health and social care charities.

He began his career as a broadcast journalist in Scotland later moving to the BBC in London. He has spent 20 years in the voluntary sector with organisations including Shelter, the School Food Trust and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.