Mark Williamson

Dr Mark Williamson is co-founder and Director of Action for Happiness, taking it from a concept on paper in 2010 to a thriving, global mass movement with over 600,000 members across 100+ countries.

Prior to Action for Happiness, Mark hada wide range of experience across commercial and non-profit organisations, from start-ups to large multinationals. He was Director of Innovation at the Carbon Trust and founder of online initiative What You Can Do. He spent nine years as a management consultant at Accenture and also worked for Hewlett Packard Labs and Orange. He has an MBA from IMD business school in Switzerland, where he received the President's Award. He has a PhD and first-class honours degree in Engineering from the University of Bristol. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, a Sainsbury Management Fellow, Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the RSA. In 2010 Mark gave up the corporate world and changed direction to focus on happiness and wellbeing. In 2022 he was awarded an additional Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his work with Action for Happiness.