Commissioner
Future Urban Living Policy Commission
About
Richard is Head of Sustainability at the Technology Strategy Board and also in charge of the creation of the Future Cities Catapult Centre.
Richard trained as a chemist and after a time as an academic at UMIST he joined Unilever Corporate Research to head the Measurement Science Division and subsequently worked in various roles in Unilever and ICI. At TSM, Richard has overall responsibility for developing and implementing a sustainability strategy across all of the Technology Strategy Board activities. He also has direct responsibility for programmes in Low-Impact Buildings, Sustainable Agriculture and Food and Resource Efficiency. .