A music historian and has in previous incarnations been a management consultant, a local councillor, a clothing manufacturer, a stockbroker and an NHS non-executive director, some of these simultaneously. He is a mediocre pianist and a poor bassoonist. From 1992 until 2017 he worked as a senior expert for the British Government and the European Commission in development aid programmes in countries of the former Soviet Union. He is a graduate of King’s College, Cambridge and in 2008 received his PhD from University College London, where he is an Honorary Research Associate.  david.conway@hgo.org.uk