Ansel Keith David Wong CBE (born 4 October 1945[1]) is a Trinidadian-British cultural and political activist, who has been influential in many organisations particularly in the black community in the United Kingdom, where he has been based since the 1960s.
[3] He is also an educationist and academic, and in a wide-ranging career has worked at senior levels in various organisations in the public and charitable sectors,[4] including with the Windrush Foundation established in 1996 by Arthur Torrington.
[1][7] Under the mayorship of Ken Livingstone, Wong was Principal Race Relations Advisor in the Ethnic Minorities Unit of the Greater London Council[8] (from 1982 until its abolition by Margaret Thatcher in 1986), where he worked closely with Herman Ouseley and Paul Boateng.
[1] In September 2018, to mark Time Out magazine's 50th anniversary Wong was one of 50 people featured as helping to shape London's cultural landscape.
[12] Wong was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to arts and culture.