Dick Sorabji has worked in public policy and management across four decades. In the 1980s he was the Parliamentary Adviser to the Shadow Health Secretary. He was elected a councillor in Lambeth becoming leader in 1988.
In 1991, Dick joined the faculty of Imperial College Business School, where he was founding Director of the first Cabinet Office sponsored Public Service MBA. His research addressed public service improvement in the UK and around the world.
Following a brief spell in corporate finance, Dick returned to public policy in 2003 joining think tanks LGIU and later NLGN, where he became Deputy Director in 2006. In 2008 he joined London Councils as a Corporate Director and later Deputy Chief Executive.
At London Councils he advised the London Boroughs in their engagement with all London public services. In work with health partners Dick helped create the London Health Board, was on the team negotiating London’s Health devolution agreements with HM Treasury in 2015 and 2017, part of agreeing the London Health Vision in 2019 and a member of London’s cross sector partnership forums used through the pandemic.