Chris Richards Email & Phone Number

Brussels, BE

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

The ICE exists to provide insights on infrastructure for social benefit, using the knowledge of over 90,000 members around the world. Reporting to the Director General, I was brought in to develop and deliver a strategy for the policy and public affairs function, a team of 7, to make the organisation more relevant and credible to decision makers.

London, United Kingdom

• Reporting to the Chief Economist, I led policy development on the business environment challenges that impact on manufacturing growth and productivity, alongside thought leadership on how to improve the adoption of 4th.
• Developing EEF as the go to organisation on the digitisation of manufacturing by providing timely briefings to Parliamentarians (national and EU), Ministers and the UK’s Representation to the EU, representing EEF on.
• Being invited to speak and share insights at an international symposium in Japan on the future world of work in the 4th industrial revolution, to share the results of my research on the business, employee and political.
• Establishing, as part of the wider debate on airport expansion, the importance of a new runway at Heathrow for securing trade links for manufactured exports. This was achieved through media interviews, civil servant.
• Securing a government review of the provision of broadband for businesses through framing the issue as one of barriers to future growth, undertaking broadcast interviews and amplifying our message through stakeholder.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• The IET is the largest professional body for chartered engineers. The policy team taps that pool of knowledge to ensure engineering plays a role in wider public policy debates. My role was to translate the technical.
• Unsticking the debate on electric vehicle adoption, by bringing together a cross section of academics, engineers and media stakeholders to foster shared recognition of the public concerns around electric vehicles.
• Enabling the IET to become a partner to improve the design of a new high speed railway (HS2), by pointing out through media interviews and political engagement how the technical assumptions put forward undermined the.

London, United Kingdom

• A part-time secondment as part of the policy team at the Royal Academy of Engineering, Britain's national academy for engineering. The role covered leading on the development of Academy policy positions on industrial.
• Being commissioned by the DfT to produce briefings to help set the direction of travel for subsequent civil service research. These included briefings on how technology can be used to improve transport and the core.

London, United Kingdom

• The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) is the trade body that supports and represents the UK recruitment industry.At the REC I worked in the industry sectors team taking responsibility for lobbying, policy.
• I positioned REC as an organisation that could advise civil servants on policy development for very technical regulatory issues ranging from the threat of government licensing in the construction sector, public sector.
• Defending the positions of the UK recruitment industry through deputising for the Director of Policy at pan-European industry (Eurociett) meetings and EU industry-trade union Social Dialogue forums.

London, United Kingdom

Political Researcher for Lord Roberts of Llandudno Liberal Democrat spokesperson in the House of Lords for International Development and Wales.

London, United Kingdom

Stategic Communications Executive responsible for developing communication plans for several local government delivery improvement projects.

Master'S Degree, Journalism And Media (Communication Studies)

Winter School For Think Tanks, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Mini Mba, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

An introduction to ideas and insights on the major levers of business performance including: People and performance Marketing in action.

Prince2 Foundation, Project Management

Msc, European Public Policy, Merit

Dissertation titled: Do competing theories explain how parties from the Liberal family form their preferences on European integration?

Ba, Politics, Economics

Dissertation titled: How well did the EU Constitutional Treaty address the democratic deficit in the EU?