The Office for Civil Society has appointed David Knott as its next director.
Knott was promoted from being deputy director of the OCS and has previously worked in Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, the Cabinet Office, Department for International Development, and as an adviser on public administration reform.
He holds two economics degrees and a Masters of Public Policy from the LSE and is a Fellow of the RSA.
The OCS’s former director, Mark Fisher, joined the Cabinet Office in the summer after three years in the role.
The director of the OCS is a senior civil servant responsible for youth volunteering programmes, social investment and strategic engagement with civil society.
He will report to Helen Judge, the director general for performance and strategy at DCMS. The OCS has a budget of £350m per year and 90 staff.
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