Lord Geoffrey Filkin, non-executive director
Lord Geoffrey Filkin has spent most of his working life in the public sector, rising through local government to become Chief Executive of Reading Borough Council and then the Secretary of the Association of District Councils. In that role he worked with others to form the Local Government Association and to promote new policies for local government before the 1997 general election, in particular creating the policy of best value. He was appointed CBE in 1997.
He then worked as a policy analyst and writer on local and regional government and helped form the New Local Government Network. He was appointed to the House of Lords on 1999 and in 2000 led the manifesto review programme for No 10 on Labour’s policies for local government, in particular the need for a new positive partnership, the New Localism.
For four years from 2001 he was a government minister in the Home Office, Department of Constitutional Affairs and DfES with a wide range of ministerial responsibilities.
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