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Sir Rodney was appointed a non-industry Board member in August 2007.

 

Sir Rodney is Chair of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, the Dolphin Square Trust and the Independent Panel for Remuneration of Councillors in London and a trustee of the Dolphin Square Charitable Foundation and of the Tavistock Institute. He is also a member of the General Medical Council, the National Information Governance Board, Capacitybuilders and of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care Records. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy at Birmingham University.

 

A solicitor by profession, Sir Rodney’s first career was in local government, where he was Chief Executive of West Yorkshire County Council and the City of Westminster Council. He was Chief Executive of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities from 1990 until its merger with the Local Government Association in 1997.

 

Sir Rodney was formerly Chair of the General Social Care Council, the Bradford District Health Authority, the National Electricity Consumers' Council and the Governors of Pimlico School. He chaired the Commission on Governance in the Third Sector and the Commission on Accessible Transport in London and the London Grants Review Board. He has been a member of the Council of University College Hospital and of the Accountancy Ethical Standards Board and a non-executive director of the Riverside Health Authority and the Westminster Primary Care Trust. Sir Rodney has also been a trustee of the Community Development Foundation.

 

He has written widely on public policy and ethics and has advised the Governments of China, Colombia, the Gambia, Guyana, Hungary, Poland and Russia.

 

Sir Rodney was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London in 1989 and a Commander of the British Empire in 1996. He was knighted in 2007.