Corporate Management Team

Our Corporate Management Team consists of corporate directors who represent our main directorates. They provide:

• the managerial leadership and direction of the council
• the formal response to Cabinet policy direction
• council-wide policy and initiatives for Cabinet consideration
• co-ordination and commissioning of council-wide activity, planning, programme management.

They are responsible for a budget of £2.4 billion and more than 12,000 staff (excluding school staff). They lead a complex organisation that works in partnership with other public agencies, local business and the voluntary and community sector.

Who they are

• David Cockburn
  Head of Paid Service/Corporate Director of Strategic and Corporate Services. Includes finance, human resources, information and communication technology, governance and law, property and infrastructure support, policy and strategic partnerships, and business intelligence.

• Matt Dunkley CBE
  Corporate Director Children, Young People and Education. Includes preventative services, education planning and access and education quality and standards.



• Richard Smith
  Corporate Director Adult Social Care and Health.

• Simon Jones
  Interim Corporate Director Growth, Environment and Transport. Includes economic development, highways, transportation and waste and environment, planning and enforcement.

• Allison Duggal
  Interim Director of Public Health.
  Includes health improvement, health protection, intelligence and research and commissioning and performance.

• Amanda Beer
  Corporate Director People and Communications.
  Includes human resources, organisational development, health and safety, consultation, marketing, media relations and customer contact.

• Zena Cooke
  Corporate Director Finance. Includes finance, audit and risk.

• Benjamin Watts
  General Counsel