Iain Roxburgh

NLGN Chair
Senior Associate Fellow, Local Government Centre, Warwick Business School and former Chief Executive of Coventry City Council

Iain Roxburgh is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Local Government Centre, Warwick Business School. Until recently he was the Director of the Warwick University Local Authorities Research Consortium, a unique partnership between a group of local authorities and a leading academic institution, bringing together theory and practice.

He is an independent consultant, having worked with central government, individual local authorities and LSPs and the IDeA; and produced ground-breaking research into shared services – “Crossing Boundaries” – for the NLGN. In association with Atkins, he is currently advising city regions on transport governance arrangements following the Local Transport Act 2008.

He has served as an advisor to Government in a number of fields, including as a member of the New Deal Advisory Group, the National Skills Task Force and at the former ODPM, advising on neighbourhood renewal and the development of local strategic partnerships.

Between 1989 and 2001, he was Chief Executive of Coventry City Council and Clerk to the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority. At Coventry he led innovations in policy and practice, particularly in partnership working, neighbourhood renewal and regeneration, contributing to the economic and social renaissance of the city during the 1990s.

Previously he was Deputy Secretary of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, working at the interface between central and local government. Before that he had a varied career, as a civil engineer and transport planner; Deputy Head of Personnel Services, then Director of Administration at the Greater London Council. He first came into local government in the 1970s as an elected member of a London Borough where he was Chair of the Housing Committee.