Chris Shepherd

Administration

PASCAL Hierarchy:

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Province:: Glasgow
Country:: United Kingdom

Scotland

First name:

Chris

Last name:

Shepherd

Chris Shepherd is the Vice-Chair of the PASCAL Board and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Chris Shepherd has a distinguished career that has bridged local government, consultancies and the academic world. He is the former Strategic Director for the London Borough of Lewisham, the Chief Executive of the Borough of Dartford and a former Director of the Kent Thameside Development Agency which led one of the largest regeneration projects in the UK. He currently serves as a Director of Quintillion Associates; he is a Governor of the Rose Bruford College, University of Manchester, a Governor of the Kings School, Rochester, a Director of Kings School International and an Honorary Canon in the Church of England. He is also working on issues of employment with a focus on young offenders,

Interests/Expertise:

His areas of expertise and interests include governance and accountability, mainstream sustainability, horizontal and vertical integration of policies and practice, social inclusion strategies, organisational development in political and community engagement, cross sectoral integrated solutions and public-private partnerships.

Recent research/consultancy:

More recently he has carried out consultancies and published papers and reports with the OECD, he has been an adviser to the UK Government on communities, regeneration and sustainability, he has worked with many cities in the UK and overseas including cities in the USA, France, the Netherlands, Australia and Estonia. He has led and participated in the PURE reviews in the UK, Italy and Australia.