David Knott

Biography

David was Director of the Office for Civil Society (now the Civil Society and Youth directorate), within the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, from November 2017 - September 2020.

He was previously Deputy Director of OCS. Among other roles he has worked in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, the Cabinet Office, Department for International Development, and as an adviser on public administration reform in more than a dozen countries.

David holds two economics degrees and a Masters of Public Policy from the LSE and is a Fellow of the RSA.