Lord Hastings is currently Chair of SOAS, University of London, Chair of London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Black Business Association. He is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Black Business institute, and is Professor of Leadership at the Stephen R Covey Leadership Centre, Huntsman Business School, USA.
He received a CBE in 2003 for services to crime reduction and community safety. He was conferred with a Life Peerage in 2005 and sits as an Independent Peer in the House of Lords.