Wilf Stevenson joined the House of Lords in July, 2010, and is the Opposition Front Bench spokesman for Dept of Business Innovation & Skills (BIS), specialising in Higher Education and Trade; and for Dept for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), where he is in the lead for Media and Sport. He is an Opposition Whip, and has also served on the Lords Communications Select Committee (2010-11). Outside the House of Lords, Wilf is chair of StepChange, a UK Debt Charity which provides confidential, free, professional counselling and money management assistance to some 500,000 financially distressed families and individuals each year. Prior to being appointed to the House of Lords, Wilf Stevenson spent a year as a special adviser to the Prime Minister; and before that nearly 11 years as the Director of the Smith Institute, an independent think tank. Prior to that, Wilf was Director of the British Film Institute (1987-97), joining the BFI from what is now Edinburgh Napier University. Lord Stevenson is a trustee with Hypospadias UK, a registered charity in the United Kingdom. * A special thanks to Intersex UK's Holly Greenberry for introducing us to Lord Stevenson and for her guidance as we toured the United Kingdom.