Richard Carr

In his substantive career, Richard worked for seven unitary, county, district, and London borough councils. He served as Chief Executive of East Cambridgeshire District Council, Aylesbury Vale District Council, Wolverhampton City Council and Central Bedfordshire Council.

Since his substantive career, amongst other roles, Richard has undertaken a number of interim management and coaching assignments, including with the City of Edinburgh Council and Colchester City Council, where he led the authority’s group of wholly owned trading companies as Managing Director. During this time, Richard was also the Managing Director of the East Midlands Development Company (EM DevCo).

In November 2023, Richard was appointed as Managing Director Commissioner at Woking Borough Council as part of the Government’s intervention at the authority and serves as its Chief Executive. In that role, Richard has been particularly focussed on extracting the Council from 24 wholly owned companies, which had resulted in complex and unaffordable commitments culminating in a unprecedented level of debt  win excess of £2 billion.