Senior Advisor
Dr Hartley Booth, OBE, was educated at Cambridge and Bristol Universities and practiced as a Barrister from 1970 to 1984. As the first Barrister appointed Special Advisor to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street (1984-1988), he advised on law and order and environmental policy, becoming senior advisor in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit.
In 1988, he became the first Chief Executive of British Urban Development Ltd., a £16 billion initiative backed by Britain’s largest civil engineering companies to revitalize inner cities. He was the Foreign Office appointee as the British Chair the Uzbek-British Trade & Industry Council from 1998 to 2012, receiving an OBE for this service. Dr Booth founded three national charities: the British Urban Regeneration Association, the British Uzbek Society, and Resources Autism. He was awarded Uzbekistan’s Order of Knighthood (Dostlik) in 2011 and serves as a Trustee of a Sainsbury Charitable Trust.