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Richard Davidson - Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Cancer Research UK

Richard Davidson has been Cancer Research UK's Director of Policy and Public Affairs since November 2004. Cancer Research UK is the UK's biggest charity and the largest independent cancer research organisation in the world. Richard oversees the organisation's policy formulation, external affairs, public campaigning and tobacco control work.

He joined the Cancer Research Campaign in 1998 and following the charity's merger with Imperial Cancer Research Fund (to form Cancer Research UK) Richard was appointed the charity's first Public Affairs Manager. The team is now 25-strong and has won a range of parliamentary, campaigning and public affairs awards.

He is a trustee of both the Association of Medical Research Charities and the newly-formed Small Charities Coalition.

Richard left the University of Essex in 1996 after gaining a BA and MA in American Government and spent two years as a fundraiser at the Charities Advisory Trust in London.
 
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Understanding Public Sector Finance  28 February 2012

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