Richard Burge

Richard David Arthur Burge is a British civil servant who was formerly Chief Executive of Wilton Park, an executive agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Biography
Burge was born in Hong Kong, where his father was stationed with the Army, and educated at a boarding school in Shropshire. He studied Zoology at Durham University, graduating in 1980. He was subsequently a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.
Career
After some further studies at Cambridge His tenure was notable for a march that took place in Central London in September 2002 that attracted 400,000 people, organised partly in response to a proposed ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales. A legal challenge from the Countryside Alliance against the ban was later unsuccessful.
From 2009 to 2016 Burge served as Chief Executive of Wilton Park. He left this role to take up the position of CEO with the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, based at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.

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