Education
He was educated at Street Paul"s School, London and Worcester College, Oxford (1965-1968), graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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He was Chairman of the United Kingdom Housing Trust, Kingston Hospital National Health Service Trust and Sanctuary Housing Association. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Cooper Brothers in 1971 (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and was a Labour Party member of Westminster City Council (1971-1974) and the Greater London Council (1973-1977) where he was chair of scrutiny and vice-chair of finance. In 1989 he was awarded a fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
From 1990 and 1994 he chaired the London Boroughs Grants Committee, awarding grants of around £29m to the voluntary sector in London.
He is a patron of Cultural Company-operation, a charity that runs world music festivals. In 2015, he was appointed Chairman of the Charity Appeal Committee of Kingston Hospital to raise £750,000 to improve the treatment of patients with dementia.
Membership
He has also been the General Secretary of Help the Aged and a board member of the London Pensions Fund Authority and the Notting Hill Housing Trust. He was a board member of the London Tourist Board where he deputised for the Chairman, Sir John Egan. He chaired the Independent Panel on members" remuneration for the Association of Police Authorities and was a member of the Metropolitan Police Committee.
He is a board member of Richmond Charities and of Kew Community Trust as well as chairing Poems in the Waiting Room, a British charity providing poetry cards to doctors" waiting rooms in England and Wales.
