Sir David Trippier - Chairman

Sir David joined Cambridgeshire Horizons as its Chairman in 2004 and has experienced the exciting movement from planning to implementation of developments in the Sub-region.

Sir David has a wealth of experience spanning the last three decades in national and local government. He was Leader of the Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council at the age of 28, and then went on to become the Member of Parliament for Rossendale and Darwen. Subsequently he became Minister for Housing, Inner Cities and Construction in the Department for the Environment, and later Minister of State for the Environment and Countryside.

He has wide experience of the private sector having served as Chairman or Director of several public and private companies including ITV Granada and W.H. Ireland Stockbrokers. He became a Colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve, in which he served for 26 years, having qualified as a Commando and parachutist.

In 2006, he won a National Award for Leadership sponsored by the Daily Telegraph for his work at Cambridgeshire Horizons.