CommunityZ Chest - Richard Burge, CEO London Chamber of Commerce & Industry, In Conversation With Michael Mainelli
Webinar
Webinar Recording
Z/Yen conducts an irregular series of short webinars, CommunityZ Chest, featuring people from its various communities and clubs, viz. technology, financial services, civil society, and business. These webinars provide an opportunity to meet people from the wider CommunityZ, to share ideas, and to make connections.
This CommunityZ Chest features Richard Burge. Richard has been the chief executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry since February 2020.
He has led four multi-million pound organisations as chief executive over a total of 18 years. They ranged from a famous charity to a UK government agency to a private company to a membership body. All of them were revenue-based operations delivering public benefits.
He has been on the Board and a non-executive chair/director of five multi-million pound operations including companies, charities, two government agencies, and a UK Russell Group university.
Richard has worked in over 55 countries, specialising in Africa, the wider Commonwealth, and post-conflict situations.
He was Chief Executive, Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council from 2017 to 2019. For the previous 8 years, he was Chief Executive of Wilton Park (a Foreign and Commonwealth Office agency for conciliation and dialogue on global issues). He was a Commissioner for Commonwealth Scholarships, and on the Council of Durham University
He has been CEO of the Countryside Alliance, Director General of the Zoological Society of London, and for ten years served with the British Council in Africa and the Middle East.
Speaker(s):
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Richard Burge
Chief Executive
London Chamber of Commerce
Chairman:
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Professor Michael Mainelli
Executive Chairman
Z/Yen Group