Monthly Saturday Talk - Sir Rodney Brooke

Sir Rodney left school when he was 15 to work on the local newspaper in Morley. He became chief executive of Westminster City Council in the 1980s when Shirley Porter was leader. 

Sir Rodney has held several national public appointments as well as visiting fellowships at Leeds and Birmingham universities. He was the first chair of the Durham University public management centre. He was appointed CBE in 1997 and knighted in 2007. He has also been awarded the Orders of Merit of France, Germany, Qatar and Senegal and the Order of the Aztec Eagle of Mexico.