Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Newham

Kim Bromley-Derry Esq CBE DL

Appointed Rep DL: 2019

Kim was appointed at the Representative Deputy Lieutenant for Newham in 2022.

Since October 2018 Kim has been the Board Group Director of Community and Partnerships at McLaren Construction and Development Group.  Prior to his current role he was the London Borough of Newham’s Chief Executive since 2010.  Before becoming Chief Executive at Newham, Kim was an Executive Director of Children’s Services at Newham Council, South Tyneside Council and Leicester City Council leading all aspects of Children and Young people’s services in those local authorities and prior to this has been a senior manager of children’s, adults and social care services in a range of other local authorities.

Kim has represented local government at a national level, for example, he was President of the Association of Director’s of Children’s Services in 2009/10, a member of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives Leadership Board, a Member of the Government’s Social Work Taskforce, Chair of the government’s National Early Intervention Advisory Board, Chair of the National Inter-agency Group, a Member of the government’s National Adoption and Fostering Leadership Group, a member of the London 2017 World Athletics Championships Board and until October 2018 was Chair of the Government’s National Libraries Taskforce.

Until recently he was a Governor at Newham College of Further Education and was a Non-Executive Board Member of both the National College of Creative Industries and the Creative and Cultural Skills Agency.

Further information about the London Borough of Newham can be found at http://www.newham.gov.uk