Dr. Richard Margrave to facilitate the 2012 spring and summer Round Tables

Dr. Richard Margrave is a senior communications and marketing professional with direct experience of journalism, the legislative and political environment and the formulation of national and international policy.  Richard was for nine years special adviser to leading UK politicians, Jack Straw MP (formerly Justice Secretary), Chris Smith MP (former Culture Secretary) and the late Lord Shore of Stepney (former Secretary of State for the Environment).  With them he was in charge of policy development, campaigns and media handling.

He has worked on political portfolios as diverse as education, local government, health, law and order, defence, environment and the business of the House of Commons.   During the following nine years he worked in-house as Director of Communications, Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the Director of Marketing, Communications and Business Development for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.  In these posts he worked closely with the media and national policy makers on issues ranging from public private finance initiatives in education to the changing needs of the engineering profession in a global economy.

He currently is Director of Communications for the largest study into primary education (ages 5-11) in England for 40 years, The Primary Review, based at the University of Cambridge and funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.