Chris Carr is a career civil servant with experience across the public sector, having worked in four departments (including the Cabinet Office and DCMS), an independent review (the Heseltine Review), a local council (Camden) and a quango (the Equality and Human Rights Commission). He has also worked at a big-name consultancy firm and at a very small one.
His expertise is in the area of organisational development – variously called continuous improvement, change management, business process re-engineering, Lean, Six Sigma and various other lucrative brands. He combines this with a classic policy skillset and is therefore doomed forever to be considered a “generalist” – old-fashioned, unimaginative and lacking in drive – which he argues could not be further from the truth.
His current role is to lead policy on Manufacturing, Services and Electronics, combining sponsorship of the UK electronics and professional & business services sectors with a wide-ranging manufacturing brief covering technology, financing and skills. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge.
Chris's objectives for the Fellowship are to gain insight into key evidence-related questions to inform future policy advice to Ministers, particularly in the light of the Foresight report into the future of manufacturing; to build a network of academic contacts for future policy consultation and discussion; and to explore areas of academic and professional interest for potential further study.
Contacts: Nick Gray 07880 741538, Chris Carr 07954 433654, Panther Taxis 01223 715715
