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Richard Hamilton is a British strategy and policy implementation expert.

He completed a bachelor’s degree in politics at the University of Essex in 1996 and other bachelor’s degree in financial services at the University of Manchester in 2000. He received his M.B.A. degree in 2012 at the University of Oxford.

Between 1996-2006 Richard Hamilton filled different positions at the Barclays Group, including two years of serving as director of Corporate Responsibility. Between 2006-2012 he worked at KPMG in the following positions: Director of Global Policy and Citizenship, Director of Corporate Affairs and Strategy. During this period, he also served as strategy adviser for the charities of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. He was an elected local authority member (Dartford Borough Council) from 1998 until 2003, and a non-executive Director of Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust from 2003 until 2007.[1]

Since 2016 Mr. Hamilton has been working for the UK government, he was the director for strategy and currently is serving as the director of Digital Land Strategy at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

He also worked as an adviser for the British Council, the Business in Community business network, and in 2011 Mr. Hamilton was appointed chief executive officer of the English National Opera for a year.

His fields of expertise are corporate responsibility and sustainable business. He is also involved in educating these topics, in February 2019 he was teaching a workshop in Budapest, Hungary at Mathias Corvinus Collegium Leadership Academy.[2]