Chris Shepherd is the Vice-Chair of the PASCAL Board and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Chris Shepherd has a distinguished career that has bridged local government, consultancies and the academic world. He is the former Strategic Director for the London Borough of Lewisham, the Chief Executive of the Borough of Dartford and a former Director of the Kent Thameside Development Agency which led one of the largest regeneration projects in the UK. He currently serves as a Director of Quintillion Associates; he is a Governor of the Rose Bruford College, University of Manchester, a Governor of the Kings School, Rochester, a Director of Kings School International and an Honorary Canon in the Church of England. He is also working on issues of employment with a focus on young offenders,