Chris Underhill is a leading exponent on global mental health practice, a social entrepreneur, a mentor, a trainer in community-based facilitation technique, and regularly speaks at conferences worldwide. His mentees currently work in organisational management, models of change in childhood deprivation, human trafficking, the psychology of gangs, Fair Trade, prisons and prisoners, leadership and executive search. He is currently founding mhNOW: Cities for mental health, is the founder of BasicNeeds, and previously founded Action on Disability and Development, and Thrive. Chris Underhill is the Chair of the International Centre for Social Franchising, a Global Director of Leaders

Quest and the Chair of Carers Worldwide. He is a Senior Fellow with the Ashoka Fellowship, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was selected as a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur for 2014. In 2000 Chris Underhill received an MBE from the Queen for his services to disability and development.