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Richard Orpin, Chief Executive
Richard joined the LSB in 2023. He was appointed Chief Executive in January 2026, having served as Interim Chief Executive and, previously, Director, Regulation & Policy.
Prior to joining the LSB, Richard spent nine years at Ofcom, where he worked on telecommunications, media and postal services policy. He has also held roles in central government, including as Head of Domestic Gambling Policy at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.
Danielle Viall, General Counsel
Danielle is responsible for legal advice and support across all areas of the LSB’s work, she leads the legal team in providing advice to corporate services and policy colleagues and the Board.
Danielle is a barrister and has previously worked in variety of legal roles in general counsel and prosecution teams for the Financial Reporting Council, General Medical Council and General Dental Council. Prior to employed practice in the regulatory sector she was at the criminal bar in chambers, 2 Dr Johnson’s Buildings, Temple.
Matilda Quiney, Director, Corporate Services
Matilda is responsible for corporate governance, finance, IT, communications, premises, human resources, and the Chair and Chief Executive’s private office. She joined the LSB in April 2025. Prior to joining the LSB, Matilda led the management services department at the TUC and has undertaken senior policy and operational roles in the civil service. Matilda is also a trustee of the People’s History Museum.
Matilda is the LSB’s deputy Accounting Officer and ensures that the LSB deploys its resources responsibly and transparently.
Jelena Lentzos, Interim Director Regulation Policy & Strategy
Jelena has spent 17 years working in and around government, mainly in the justice sector in a variety of roles, the last 8 within the policy profession. She was most recently Deputy Director, Legal Aid Policy at MoJ, during which time she was responsible for ensuring delivery of the statutory duty to provide legal aid and access to justice and the delivery of significant reforms to legal aid fee schemes and eligibility for legal aid. She previously held policy leadership roles in criminal legal aid, victims support and private family law reform. Before moving into policy, she held senior roles in other areas including sponsorship of MoJ’s arm’s length bodies, project and programme delivery and shared services.
We carried out anonymous and voluntary diversity surveys of our Board, Consumer Panel members and executive colleagues in 2024, 2022, 2020, 2018 , 2017, 2012 and 2010.
*We destroy the individual inputs once we have collated the final report.
In presenting the results, we do not include industry or sector comparators; or general or economically active comparators because we do not think such comparators are directly applicable to very small organisations. For us, one person in any category represents a 2% shift and as we break the organisation down into levels of seniority, one person can shift results by as much as 20%.
Our 2020 report includes details of the key findings of the survey and action we are considering as a result.
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