Chief Executive of the Engineering Professors’ Council
Johnny Rich has a number of roles including Chief Executive of the Engineering Professors’ Council, Chief Executive of the award-winning outreach organisation Push, and a consultant in higher education policy and communications. His recent clients include the European Commission, HEPI, Youth Sight and a host of recruiters, education bodies and media organisations. Johnny is widely regarded as an expert on HE access, student choice, information and opportunity, and on employability. As a contributor to various think tanks and strategy bodies, Johnny speaks and writes widely on policy debates in education, careers, wider participation and social mobility. He has recently spearheaded projects on school-leaver recruitment, work-related learning and social mobility. With degrees from the Universities of Durham and East Anglia, his background also includes jobs in journalism, publishing, media relations, television production and web development. For eight years, he was a director of the Higher Education Academy. He appears regularly on television and radio and is author of the highly acclaimed novel The Human Script.
