David Shields
David works at a senior executive level across public, private, and civil society. David has proven ability to deliver stretching targets while managing significant cultural change, as demonstrated when Managing Director of the UK ‘s Government Procurement Service, which is now known as Crown Commercial Services.
David is focused on procurement being one of the key drivers for change across all sectors in tackling inequality and climate change. David believes all organisations can be part of the solution by designing how they operate to ensure they tackle social and economic inequality and positively impact our environment at a local, regional, national and global level.
Through his work as Non-Executive Director of Social Value UK, David created the Contract for Change programme to share best practice procurement approaches from across the public and private sector, then combine, develop and share these to create a suite of strategic and operational approaches, tools, templates and guidance that will benefit all stakeholder groups.
David is also Board Level Director of Education Commercial Services and has been instrumental in creating the procurement offer to support the education sector in meeting their specific needs.