Partner, The Governance Partnership

Dr Davies is a senior communications professional whose career spans national newspaper journalism, radio, TV and corporate consultancy. His 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.

Dr Davies has written for the London Evening Standard on business/government interface and management/corporate governance issues.

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

A former Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, his publications include Women and Work, Inside Fleet Street and a contribution to Essays on the History of Youth and Community Work; recent books include Drummond Allison: Come Let Us Pity Death and F.W. Harvey: Poet of Remembrance (Cecil Woolf, 2008, 2009). Ashgate is to publish Dr Davies’s ‘A Student in Arms’: Donald Hankey and Edwardian Society at War.