Carole Stone
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Carole Stone, CBE (born 30 May 1942) is a British author and freelance radio and television broadcaster. Stone spent 27 years at the BBC beginning as a newsroom secretary and eventually becoming the producer of Radio 4's flagship discussion programme Any Questions? In 2018, Stone established The Carole Stone Foundation to support her belief that connecting people, exchanging ideas and building friendships around the world is essential to help make a fairer society.
Career
BBC
Stone spent 27 years at the BBC starting as a newsroom secretary, and went on to become producer of Radio 4's flagship discussion programme Any Questions? between 1977 and 1990.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
YouGovStone
In April 2007, Stone became managing director of YouGovStone, a joint venture with online opinion polling organisation YouGov.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She established the YouGovStone Think Tank, a global panel of 4,000 industry leaders and "influentials" used for opinion research and drawn from her database of more than 50,000 people.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Current activities
The Carole Stone Foundation
Stone established The Carole Stone Foundation in 2018 to support her belief that connecting people, exchanging ideas and building friendships around the world is essential to help make a fairer society. The Carole Stone Foundation awarded its first One Young World Scholarships in 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
YouGov-Cambridge Centre
Stone is the former Chair of the External Advisory Board of the YouGov-Cambridge Centre, a joint centre for polling research at Cambridge University, run byYouGov and the Cambridge POLIS Department.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
One Young World
Stone is a Counsellor for the UK-based charity One Young World that gathers together the brightest young leaders from around the world, enabling them to make lasting connections to create positive change. She has set up her own scholarship within the charity.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The Hippocratic Post
Stone is a founding director of the recently launched website The Hippocratic Post, the first global blogging site for medics and other health professionals.
Tutu Foundation UK
Stone is Chairman of the Ambassadors of the Tutu Foundation UK.
Centre for Peaceful Solutions
Stone is Patron of the Centre for Peaceful Solutions, which works to change our attitudes to conflict and better manage the disputes in our lives to improve our communities, families and workplaces.
The Global Foundation to Eliminate Domestic Violence (EDV)
In 2016 Stone was elected to succeed Baroness Scotland (who has now become the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth) as Patron of The Global Foundation to Eliminate Domestic Violence (EDV).
Other associations
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Stone is a former elected Governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
SANE
Stone is Vice-Patron of mental health charity SANE.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Saving Faces
Stone is Patron of Saving Faces, a facial surgery research foundation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
TOP UK The OCD and Phobia Charity
Stone is a Patron of TOP UK, the OCD and phobia charity.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Publications
Stone is the author of Networking: The Art of Making Friends (Template:ISBN) and The Ultimate Guide to Successful Networking (Template:ISBN).
Personal life
Stone married television journalist Richard Lindley in 1999;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> he died in early November 2019.
Honours and awards
In November 2011, Stone was awarded "Britain's Best Connected Woman" by the Institute of Directors and O2.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In June 2014, Stone was made a Senior Fellow of the Regent's University London.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In June 2015, Stone was appointed CBE, for her services to market research and charities.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>