Kris Stewart

For another person, see Kris Stewart (director). Not to be confused with Kristen Stewart.

Kris Stewart (born February 9, 1967, in Portsmouth) is the founding chairman^[1] of English football club AFC Wimbledon and a left wing political activist. He was the club's chief executive and is also a CIMA past finalist management accountant. Under his leadership, AFC Wimbledon achieved numerous milestones including their first ever match, a friendly against Sutton United, as well as their first competitive game in the Combined Counties League away at Sandhurst, and a sell-out game against Chipstead at Kingsmeadow.^[2] He is a former member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and stood as the Left List's candidate for Merton and Wandsworth^[3] in the 2008 London Assembly election.^[4]

In 2013, he resigned from the SWP due to the party's rape scandal and co-founded the International Socialist Network with around 100 other former members.^{[citation needed]}