Richard David Arthur Burge
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Richard David Arthur Burge became the Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry[1]
Early Life[edit]
Burge was born in Hong Kong on 5th April 1958. His father, Arthur Vincent Burge, was a serving officer with the Royal Engineers, and his mother was Elsie (Rae) Burge (nee Kimberley).
After primary school in Cardiff and in north London (where his father was posted), he went to Haberdasher Adams’ Grammar School in Newport Shropshire in 1969. This was the school attended by his maternal uncle Arthur Howard Kimberley, a petty officer/ rear gunner in the Fleet Air Arm mentioned in despatches during the bombing of the Tirpitz and who went missing in action on 18 July 1944.
Burge went to Hatfield College, Durham University from 1977-80, the first member of his family to go to university. He graduated with a 2.2 honours degree in Zoology.
Career[edit]
Burge taught biology at King Edward’s School Witley (1980-83) and then went to Sri Lanka as a Commonwealth Scholar until 1986. He taught terrestrial ecology and undertook research on the territoriality of water buffalo and elephant in Yaya National Park for a PhD but failed to submit his thesis. He returned to the UK and a temporary research post at the Mammalian Ecology and Reproduction Research Group under Professor Peter Jewell at Cambridge University[2] .
Burge joined the British Council in June 1986 where he served in the Overseas Career Service for ten years. He was Assistant Representative in Lagos Nigeria until March 1990, then had a series of posts in the UK ending up as Head of Africa and Middle East Operations for three years until September 1995.
Appointments[edit]
Burge was the first Director General of the Zoological Society of London.He then case Chief executive of the Countryside Alliance under the chairmanship of John Jackson until 2003.
Richard Burge spent some time in private business until being appointed as Chief Executive of Wilton Park (an FCO executive agency) form 2009-2017.
He was then chief executive of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council until 2019.
In February 2020, he became chief executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry[1].
From 2003-09, Burge had a portfolio of part-time paid appointments. He was Strategy Director for the African Parks Foundation and a Commissioner for Rural Communities. He founded a company called Beyond Carbon, working of business planning for environmental and technology change. He was a non-executive direct of two London-based commercial property development companies. He is the founding partner of ESG Validation.
Burge has served a trustee and Board member of a number of charities and not-for-profit organisations including the Iwokrama Rainforest Research Centre, the Association of Chief Executives in the Voluntary Sector (ACEVO), The Association of Chief Executives (of government executive agencies), the European Zoo Association, the Council of Durham University (including chair of the University Ethics Committee, Vice Chair of Bridewell Royal Hospital (King Edward’s School Witley), a Commissioner for Commonwealth Scholarships, trustee of the Television Trust for the Environment, and chair of the Global Health Assurance Partnership (based in Geneva), and Treasurer of St John-at-Hackney in London.
He is currently a Trustee of VERTIC, a Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of World Traders, and has been chair of Council at Hatfield College Durham University for 10 years.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thicknesse, Edward (January 2020). "London Chamber of Commerce appoints Richard Burge as new chief executive". City AM. Unknown parameter
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