Commissioners
The work of the Commissioners is to set the strategic direction of the CRC and to ensure that activities agreed in the Corporate Plan are delivered.
Commission Meetings are held in public.
Stuart Burgess chairs the Commission for Rural Communities having been Chairman of the Countryside Agency, and the Government’s Rural Advocate, since 2004...
Job title: Chairman and Rural Advocate
Themes (6)
Professor Sheena Asthana is Professor of Health Policy in the School of Law and Social Science at the University of Plymouth...
Job title: Board Member
Richard Childs QPM BSc FSyI manages his own business consultancy which he set up in 2003. He provides strategic advice on criminal justice and government, community safety...
Job title: Commissioner
Dr Jim Cox OBE is a former rural General Practitioner in Caldbeck, Cumbria, Medical Director of Cumbria Ambulance Service and chairman of Royal College of General Practitioners’ Rural Practice Group.
Job title: Board Member
Elinor Goodman was for 23 years political editor of Channel Four News. After leaving television, she chaired the independent Affordable Rural Housing Commission...
Job title: Board Member
John Mills CBE was formerly Director of Rural Policy at Defra. In a wide-ranging public service and civil service career...
Job title: Commissioner
Former Principal of Bishop Burton College, Howard Petch has more recently working with land based colleges, churches and rural based charities...
Job title: Board Member
Mark Shucksmith OBE is Professor of Planning at Newcastle University. He was formerly Professor of Land Economy and Director of the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research, University of Aberdeen...
Job title: Board Member
Canon Professor Michael Winter OBE is Director of the Centre for Rural Policy Research and Professor of Rural Policy at Exeter University. He is past Chair of the South West Rural Affairs Forum...
Job title: Board Member
