Partner, The Governance Partnership

Dr Davies is a senior communications professional in a career that spans national newspaper journalism, radio, TV and corporate consultancy. Ross’s Fleet Street experience in the business, corporate, education, engineering, financial, property and training sectors includes The Financial Times, The Daily and The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, and The Sunday Times.

At the London Evening Standard City Office Ross specialised in business/government interface and management/corporate governance issues.

Ross’s Radio and TV work has ranged from Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour to the launch of BBC’s In Business and Channel 4 Business Programme.

Before establishing The Governance Partnership with former Times colleague Peter Hill, Ross operated a writing, editing, commissioning and media training service for business leaders in banks, consultancies, professional institutes and utilities.

A former Non-Stipendiary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, Dr Davies’s publications include Women and Work, Inside Fleet Street, and Essays on the History of Youth and Community Work (contribution); his latest book is a biography, Drummond Allison: Come Let Us Pity Death (Cecil Woolf, ISBN 978-1-897967-91-1), and Ashgate is to publish his ‘A Student in Arms’: Donald Hankey and Edwardian Society at War (ISBN 978-0-7546-6866-4).