Mark Swift is a social entrepreneur with over two decades’ experience advancing health equity and reimagining public services. He is the Founder and CEO of Wellbeing Enterprises CIC, one of the UK’s pioneering healthcare social enterprises, dedicated to tackling inequalities through community-led, person-centred approaches.
Mark is a Fellow of the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at the University of Liverpool, and a Local Policy Innovation Partnership Fellow at City-REDI, University of Birmingham. His work sits at the intersection of community power and systems change, bridging research, practice, and policy to champion people-powered innovation and systemic transformation.
In recognition of his impact, Mark was named one of Nesta’s “50 New Radicals” in 2016 and awarded the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship in 2017 for his contributions to healthcare innovation.
At the heart of his life’s work is a commitment to shifting power to communities, creating the conditions where citizens can lead, shape, and sustain the changes needed for everyone to thrive.
