Andrew Charles Robert Barnett OBE (born 1968) is the Director of the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.[1][2]

Barnett was born in New South Wales and has dual Australian and British citizenship. He attended the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1990 with an MA in Modern History.

In 2002, Barnett was the Director of Communications at the UK Sports Council, where the advocacy plan for bidding London as a host city for the 2012 Olympics was developed. From 2005-2007 he was Director of Communications at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Housing Trust. In 2007, he took on the directorship of the UK branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.[3][4] He is a director of the Forces in Mind Trust[5] and a committee member of Healthwatch England.[6]

Barnett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to social change.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Andrew Barnett - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation — UK Branch". Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation — UK Branch. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Andrew Barnett | Nesta". Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Leading questions". TheGuardian.com. 4 November 2009.
  4. ↑ "Nottingham chosen for ground-breaking national study". Nottingham Post. 7 September 2016. Archived from the original on 8 September 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "The board | Forces in Mind Trust". Forces in Mind Trust. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Our Committee :: Healthwatch". www.healthwatch.co.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "No. 63218". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2020. p. N10.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.